100 Quotes About Christian Fiction

Why could he not have chosen some other woman? Why Avelina? But he knew why. It was because she had seemed good and kind and had expressed her thoughts without any false pride or pretense. He had admired her forthrightness and her compassion. And although he had never thought of a wife with strong opinions was a good thing, he actually found he liked her opinions-or at least admired her for having them. He wanted to get to know her, to know everything that was in her heart. He wanted to marry her and, surprising even himself, to love her. Melanie Dickerson

It is when the individual's faith is weak, not strong, that he will be afraid of an honest fictional representation of life; and when there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the supernatural is apt gradually to be lost. Flannery OConnor

He considered telling her that she could, and often, if she married him. Melanie Dickerson

But in her heart she truly believed she was a better lady than Lady Dorothea ever was. Was it wrong to think she was nobler in her heart than the true nobleman's daughter? Melanie Dickerson

If the only tool in Willem's arsenal was a silent supplication to an absent almighty, then I might as well be sitting next to a raving radical ready to die for the promise of seventy-two virgins and a couple of camels. Lisa C. Temple

All night, I thought about that walk. The touch of the forest tickled my skin long after, while the scent lingered in my nostrils. It was unlike anything back home. There was a feeling in the atmosphere I couldn't shake--something that was trying to draw me back. I felt alive in that forest. --His Name is Moonlight Kellie Thacker

I felt empowered by him, as if his very existence manipulated the balance of my nature from a shy little girl to wonder woman. Kellie Thacker

Their blissfully soft texture calmed me but alerted me at the same time. I couldn't explain the gentle spark of light that dripped off the edges. And of course, the aqua trim felt way too familiar. Dianne Bright

For the first time in fifteen years, he felt a mother's love again. R. A. Rooney

So in a man’s mind, he appraises, negotiates, defines, delineates, weighs the information, and that includes God. As you can see, this is a relationship of management, not trust. You don’t trust things you can manage, you manage them. And so, God as information is managed and no relationship of trust is fostered. Geoffrey Wood

At the same time, they find their mind-god has played a trick on them. For mind is a part of the very system it has closed around it, and being inside, there is no reason to think any statement made by some part concerning the whole has any validity. Mind was caused by the material universe, if mind is right. But only the greater can accurately define the lesser, never the other way round, so if mind is right, mind would never know. . Geoffrey Wood

The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of holding that of consequence. Geoffrey Wood

Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him. Geoffrey Wood

Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other, while at the same time, being utterly known by the other, thus utterly himself. Geoffrey Wood

In Joy, to lose one’s life is to gain it, and Joy never loses an opportunity to be lost in the other. Geoffrey Wood

The sorry religious novel comes about when the writer supposes that because of his belief, he is somehow dispensed from the obligation to penetrate concrete reality. He will think that the eyes of the Church or of the Bible or of his particular theology have already done the seeing for him, and that his business is to rearrange this essential vision into satisfying patterns, getting himself as little dirty in the process as possible. Flannery OConnor

Maybe that was the best part. The beautiful peace that came with living her own story, knowing every turn of the page and tug of the heart was a new beginning. Melissa Tagg

I believe that all things happen under the watchful eye of God and the lessons we learn along the way only serve to make us stronger. Nancy B. Brewer

You have always known they exist. Everyone feels their presence. Few know the truth. The world of Real Immortals is about to be revealed! John T. Montgomery

But here I’d like to add to what the Tempter’s Manual suggests. Depression, at its finest, is not a Future that they cannot hopefully construct, nor a shamed Past that hounds them, but an agonizing Present that they cannot escape. We want to disable their Present so that they cannot use it to look Heavenward. Geoffrey Wood

Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten. Geoffrey Wood

They scold their own hearts but it actuates no real change, only deepens the wound. But they can’t look away from it. Thus, by paralyzing their Present, we beat The Adversary on His home turf. And loop after loop, the depressed haunt and harrow themselves, sometimes for years, when they have only, for a brief moment, to look away from themselves, to look up. Geoffrey Wood

Tal was looking at Hank when he said, "Just a moment. I want to hear it one more time." As they watched, Bernice found her way to Hank and Mary. She began to week openly, and spoke some quiet but impassioned words to them. Hank and Mary listened, as did the others nearby, and as they listened, they began to smile. They put their arms around her, they told her about Jesus, and then they began to weep as well. Finally, as the saints were gathered and Bernice was surrounded with loving arms, Hank said the words, "Let's pray.. Frank E. Peretti

It had been a long fifteen years. So much had changed in both their lives. Both hearts somehow sadly hardened. “Let us just make it through, ” Claire whispered her desperate plea. It was her only prayer, one she said over and over again. An almost cynical laugh erupted out of her as she turned one last time to say goodbye to her father’s tombstone. That was her prayer? That was all she could come up with to say to God? Then so be it. . Laura Aranda

Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional –the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations. Geoffrey Wood

When some one mortal yet eternal human merely being relying on precisely nothing but the audacious love of his Maker, calls on Him to part the Heavens, well, we are undone. Geoffrey Wood

That’s where thinking started, where thinking stopped, where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed, nor even dreamed of changing her father. Her dreams now played variations on the theme of escape. And they were nothing more than that –just dreams, just play. She’d been alone at the end of her dreams so many times before and never had God helped her escape her father, because God couldn’t, because she would never escape her need to love him. Geoffrey Wood

True Prayer is the work of relationship, where He moves them from mere information about Him to a one-on-one experience with Him, so that now when they talk about “knowing God, ” they mean more than, “I understand what you’re saying about God, ” but also, “It fits my experience of Him. Geoffrey Wood

When young, the humans are all Imagination because Memory is so much smaller a part of their experience, so little of them is grounded in it. As they grow older, however, Memory overtakes their Imagination, outweighs it. But when they pray with ever increasing confidence, they see with an ever-increasing and youthful Imagination and such burgeoning of possibility causes even their Memory to be lightened and redeemed. The scales fall from their eyes and they wait on their Father with the same childlike wonder that watches a sunrise to see what might happen this time. . Geoffrey Wood

All this has been happening around them all the days of their lives though they couldn’t see it, then one day, Prayer removes the veil and everything changes. Think of it this way: Picture a man whistling a tune, when out of nowhere, first a harmony joins, then another, and then suddenly he is taken up into a whirlwind of music, countless instruments playing soaring complexities that the man’s whistling is, indeed, a part of, but now he begins to see how small a part; the longer he listens, he realizes that his is not the melody and where he had thought he was whistling alone, the truth had always been the music playing, though never before that moment heard, and now what had been noise becomes symphony. Geoffrey Wood

Somebody’d better pray for him, don’t you think? He IS a lost soul.~ Pastor John Linton Janet Sketchley

Even then his thoughts did not turn to prayer but to Abbie and to what she would think about his lack of prayerfulness and that surely she would have immediately broken out in prayer. “Doesn’t matter now, ” he whispered and felt that he could not cry out to God.~William Drexler the Third Gwenn Wright

They prefer a God of an altogether softer flavor. Nothing too extreme. Complaisance, not magnanimity. They do not think upon the “God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God.” They prefer to think in terms of “God liking them.” That’s the God they’ve conjured for themselves. Geoffrey Wood

The eye is to light as the soul is to God. Geoffrey Wood

Trust becomes the only road home, back to love. Geoffrey Wood

There is a mathematics to all his relationships, underlying each and every one. He wants it to all add up in his head and he wants to do the adding. And should someone step outside his ciphers, the circle his mind has drawn, his trust evaporates. Geoffrey Wood

Trust is crazy. You are a risky, risky, God. I didn’t sign up to be Amazing Trust Boy, and I did not sign up for Danger God. You’re flatly not safe… Geoffrey Wood

The Adversary, of course, simply wants them to lay down their sins, guilt and all, and follow Him. But this type holds on to their sinfulness and their guilt for it, because otherwise, they’d have no relationship with Him at all. And, of course, no relationship can be based on guilt and survive. Geoffrey Wood

You must also forgive yourself. You must forgive yourself for any past mistakes and failures that you cannot forget. Laura Aranda

If we choose to hold onto the past and cling to hurt, anger, or whatever, He can't set us free of it. He won't take those things by force. Dawn M. Turner

I don’t want God's forgiveness. And He’s not getting mine.~ Harry Silver Janet Sketchley

And once their imaginations are liberated, they begin glimpse the grand interconnectedness of all things. Eternity begins to peek out from behind the everyday things and they see the trappings of any earthly moment as the stage and props for Heaven to reveal itself. There is now nothing ordinary. Everything is being used and spun out for His vast scheme and in His eternal economy, nothing is wasted. Suddenly, all the myriad moments and minutiae of a lifetime show their orchestration –there was nothing that did not lead to this! They look over all their time to find that His redemption has always been rushing, swooping, swerving through their experience, racing to and fro to intervene and infuse Grace. Geoffrey Wood

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations. Geoffrey Wood

Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there. Geoffrey Wood

You know, sometimes love can be staring you right in the face, and you can be too blind to see it. Unknown

It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing true and lit with surprise. Geoffrey Wood

And keep them thinking in terms of 'being good' as this is not an end so much as a means to something else –happiness, respect, self-esteem, etc… And whatever their true end is, take it away, and so goes their goodness. Geoffrey Wood

Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too. Geoffrey Wood

If we blind them to The Adversary –decrease their desire for The Desire– while at the same time encourage them to do anything else they desire with increasing “freedom of choice, ” then eventually we snuff out desire while leaving demand in tact. Geoffrey Wood

They think that if they were allowed to do anything they desired, they would be satisfied and the more desires the better. But all desires divorced from The Desire eventually collapse in on themselves. Geoffrey Wood

If God’s suggesting that I am expected to do good and also obligated to manufacture a genuine desire for it, this boat’s sunk, still sitting on the trailer in the driveway. A stack of things need to happen before I desire to be good… Geoffrey Wood

The sun appeared over the hillside. "I'm tired, Tom.""It's okay to go home, ' he choked. "Hold my hand?" His arms tightened around her and his fingers interlaced with hers. She closed her eyes against the brightness. "I love you."" I love you too, " he whispered. Jennifer died feeling the warmth of the rising sun Dee Henderson

We've peered into the deepest parts to see beyond what lies on the surface. Kellie Thacker

We had given in to our vulnerability and cast down any pretenses that we were too strong to be weak. Kellie Thacker

You can't let your light die out. Yours is the only light on my dark path. Without it, I will be forever lost. Kellie Thacker

The amazing, whole, overwhelming, abundant life is found, oddly, by letting go. By living a dangerous faith--the kind of faith that believes in a God who knows our hearts and loves us enough to take our breath away. Susan May Warren

Grace runs downhill and now all his time is being redeemed. Geoffrey Wood

His eyes settled due west and gazed through the silhouetted, leaf-bare branches to the now-black rolling hills of the mountains he called home. The sun was setting on another day in Laurel Cove, though he couldn’t help but wonder what was rising on the horizon. Teresa Tysinger

Loving someone wasn't about their perfection. It was about coming to accept every part of them, their good qualities at their weaknesses and flaws--looking on everything they were and loving it all. As she looked on everything Jake was, right down to his center, she loved him. Becky Wade

He wanted desperately to stay, just a little while longer. But he couldn't be here, in this place, with her. It was calm here. She was innocent and beautiful and perfect. He was not. He didn't want his mess or his mental illness or his past anywhere near her. He wanted to protect her from a lot of things, but most of all from himself. Becky Wade

He'd sacrifice even his sanity for her. If it came down to it, he'd let her break his heart. Because he loved her. Becky Wade

Love is as hard to hide as hate. Jennifer Hudson Taylor

With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook –that prissy little virtue, Temperance– for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended. Geoffrey Wood

Still, despite all our noise, this universe hinges on a melody, that’s the dismal truth of it. Oh, we can propagandize all we wish, it doesn’t change the fabric of things. This universe was not made for the fallen, only the redeemed. Geoffrey Wood

My disadvantages will tire him as they would any reasonable man of small expectations." - Jane Adams Noorilhuda

Also, always encourage 'being good' over 'doing good.' Acts of goodness are the difficulty for us and should, of course, be avoided. 'Being good' is far less problematic, largely because it lacks definition and can be solely a state of mind completely unattached to reality. Geoffrey Wood

I don’t even like the phrase ‘opportunity to sin’ because it implies the opportunity to obey. Geoffrey Wood

It seems The Adversary needs neither their guilt nor their request, but simply their return. In other words, since repentance is the process whereby guilt is turned into gratitude, He doesn’t mind if they skip a step and go directly to gratitude. Geoffrey Wood

That sense of entitlement is precisely where we want them because the right to happiness is directly opposed to one of The Adversary’s greatest curatives –gratitude. Geoffrey Wood

Gratitude, not guilt, as motivation is always His starting point, thus guilt as a motivation leads nowhere. Geoffrey Wood

Never let them try out this gratitude, for they would immediately discover that it supplies the first and most important component to happiness: Contentment. Geoffrey Wood

Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would’ve worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would’ve then better lead them on to happiness. Geoffrey Wood

The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and the chief difference between the novelist who is an orthodox Christian and the novelist who is merely a naturalist is that the Christian novelist lives in a larger universe. He believes that the natural world contains the supernatural. And this doesn't mean that his obligation to portray the natural is less; it means it is greater. Flannery OConnor

Where faith costs nothing, faith loses respect, even to those who possess it. Geoffrey Wood

Though the heart may be cracked wide, pain can still seep in. Rachelle Rea Cobb

Have faith. Ye've so much for everyone else. Why not save some for yerself once in a while? Various

Courtesy, not control, that was His means. Just as He requested the stars to sing and they leapt into bright being, so request was to be their rule over bird and beast, seas and trees, mountains and moons and all the dancing distances between the heavenlies filled with the unending song of Creation. Geoffrey Wood

When you get the coffee from the store, does it come in a great big metal can?' He beamed. 'Absolutely.'That was all I needed to hear. "Tea. A cup of tea. Steven James

But they promised us everyone would return someday…when it was safe.” Her voice cracked at the end.“ You’re being stupid again. Trusting in what they say.” Disdain dripped from his words like pus from an infected wound. T.C. Avey

What are we, Charlie's Angels? Terri Blackstock

She feared God may not deliver her out of this mess, especially if He had a greater plan. Jennifer Hudson Taylor

In the darkest of nights, there is only one thing on your mind--should I be required to stand before the Almighty, will I find myself in His favor? Rachel Hauck

If God gives you a hundred bucks, you better bet He’s going to ask you what you bought. Geoffrey Wood

We just have to believe that God is bigger than the junk happening to us. Michelle Lynn Brown

I am beginning to understand that I cannot interpret the probable action of Jesus until I know better what His spirit is. The greatest question in all of human life is summed up when we ask, 'What would Jesus do?' if, as we ask it, we also try to answer it from a growth in knowledge of Jesus himself. We just know Jesus before we can imitate Him. Charles M. Sheldon

Indeed if they ever once saw the endless supply of eternal opportunities The Adversary offers them every temporal moment of day after day of their fuddled little lives, they would stagger at the sheer industry and prodigality of His efforts. Conversely, if they ever gained a glimpse of how their ordinary actions actually effect and shape things not only under time but without, the very vast weight of that would almost certainly end in their becoming humble. Geoffrey Wood

-she loved Lily Cate like her own, and for this night, this moment, she would be her mother, even though there was no guarantee of tomorrow. Laura Frantz

Magdalen, the girl with pretty green eyes. Magdalen, who was smiling so warmly right now at Lenhart, who was attentive to Katrin even when she talked too much. She had been so gentle and concerned about his wounds, washing his face and bringing him fresh water to drink. Melanie Dickerson

A love so true, so consuming, so good. Melissa Jagears

Love has a heavy load of possibilities. You can't have it without some measure of pain. They go together with an inseparable bond in this world. But it's worth it. I promise you, the treasure is worth the pain. Miranda Shisler

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight. Nancy B. Brewer

You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the future. Be gentle with yourself, you'll make it. Dee Henderson

For example, your man might think: I don’t steal. Maybe on my taxes, everyone does that, but not in the way I heard so and so stole from his company. See? Those men for whose opinion he cares approve of embezzlement in one area, not the other. He uses them to maintain a claim on goodness while at the same time stealing. Geoffrey Wood

If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they’ve been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we’re headed right back toward The Virtues. Geoffrey Wood

As a motivation –for humans, but Christians especially– guilt is always wrong and can never move them to do anything He wants of them. Never let them realize that. Geoffrey Wood

If we can keep the Christians thinking of themselves as sinners not sons and daughters, we can make them view their relationship to The Adversary as a negative-sum-game: They fall in a hole, He pulls them out, they fall back in, etc... That way they never get anywhere; they’re always either standing next to a hole or down in it. Geoffrey Wood

Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others. Geoffrey Wood

Even if their guilt actually does produce a good action, it will be the saddest good action you’ll ever see, and it will be of no use to them because their goal is not to obey, but to feel less guilty, thus nothing about their souls will be reshaped. Geoffrey Wood