Have you ever looked at life as one great journey. For the non-Christian his journey through life, when he looks back at it in old age, often seems insignificant and joyless. And when he looks forward, his soon approaching date with death must seem so frightful since a final grave is all he has to look forward to.
However, for the Christian, life is an exciting journey that is full of amazing opportunities to bring glory to Jesus, to get to know Him better, and to build up an eternal nest egg on the other side of eternity. For each believer there is great joy in experiencing intimacy with Jesus, great joy in knowing that we are part of an awesome team of evangelists, dispensing the good news to a world that is perishing, and great joy in knowing that eternal life means our journey will never end!
Below are a variety of quotes to help you realize that the Christian journey through life, while often challenging, is designed by God to be deeply satisfying, full of amazing beauty, and eternal in nature.1 I pray you will just let each quote minister to your heart, mind, and soul.
“Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.” – George Whitefield
“Let God have your life; He can do more with it than you can.” – Dwight L. Moody
“When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.” – Rick Warren
“We don’t seek to escape this life by dreaming of heaven. But we do find we can endure this life because of the certainty of heaven. Heaven is eternal. Earth is temporal. Those who fix all their affections of the fleeting things of this world are the real escapists, because they are vainly attempting to avoid facing eternity – by hiding in the fleeting shadows of things that are only transient.” – John MacArthur
“Christ-likeness is your eventual destination, but your journey will last a lifetime.” – Rick Warren
“He calls us to trust him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn’t come through.” – Francis Chan
“Nothing whatever, whether great or small, can happen to a believer, without God’s ordering and permission. There is no such thing as ‘chance,’ ‘luck’ or ‘accident’ in the Christian’s journey through this world. All is arranged and appointed by God. And all things are ‘working together’ for the believer’s good.” – J. C. Ryle
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain that which he cannot lose.” – Jim Elliot
“Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell.” – David Platt
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” – C.S. Lewis
“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God’s thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.” – George MacDonald
“Consider how precious a soul must be when both God and the devil are after it.” – Charles Spurgeon
“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” – St. Augustine
“If you can trust God to save you for eternity, you can trust him to lead you for a lifetime.” – David Platt
“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.” – John Piper
“Abundance isn’t God’s provision for me to live in luxury. It’s his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.” – Randy Alcorn
“You weren’t an accident. You weren’t mass produced. You aren’t an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the Earth by the Master Craftsman.” – Max Lucado
“If you have a Bible that’s falling apart, you’ll have a life that’s not.” – Adrian Rogers
“If your life is empty, fill it with Christ.” – Woodrow Kroll
“To be loved by God is the highest relationship, the highest achievement, and the highest position in life.” – Henry Blackaby
“Sometimes God allows what He hates to accomplish what He loves.” – Joni Eareckson Tada
“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil and let us see what we are made of.” – Charles Spurgeon
“Being a Christian means forgiving the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” – C.S. Lewis
“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.” – William Barclay
“The greater your knowledge of the goodness and grace of God on your life, the more likely you are to praise Him in the storm.” – Matt Chandler
“There is no one who is insignificant in the purpose of God.”– Alistair Begg
“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” – Corrie Ten Boom
“God’s word is tailor-made for gray-slush days. It sends a beam of light through the fog. It signals safety when we fear we’ll never make it through.” – Charles R. Swindoll
1 All of the following quotes are from the websites below:
50 Powerful Christian Quotes to Inspire You Today (marisadamore.com)
377 Quotes About Life | ChristianQuotes.info
50 Great Quotes About Life And Living To The Fullest | Christian.net