Christ Quotes
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Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.
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As Paul argues, it is the righteousness of God that is revealed in the law, and this condemns us all (Ro 1:18 - 3:20), while the gospel reveals the righteousness from God, namely, that we "are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (Ro 3:24).
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True repentance has as its constituent elements not only grief and hatred of sin, but also an apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ. It hates the sin, and not simply the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered God's love.
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We need voices that help us critique our social, political, and economic views through Kingdom lenses. The women and men who compose the global body of Christ can help challenge us in very important ways.
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Nobody worries about Christ as long as he can be kept shut up in churches. He is quite safe inside. But there is always trouble if you try and let him out.
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A little while, we are in eternity; before we find ourselves there, let us do much for Christ.
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Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.
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We are enveloped in peace, whether or not we feel ourselves to be at peace. By that I mean the peace that passes understanding is not a subjective sensation of peace; if we are in Christ, we are in peace even when we feel no peace.
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When I was a kid in Boston, it was one of the most anti-Semitic cities in the country. If you were living in the ghetto as I was, the Jewish ghetto part of Roxbury, and you went out alone at night, you might be subject to having people attacking you for being a Christ killer.
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When you have given yourself to Christ, leave yourself there, and go about your work as a child in His household.
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It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ.
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Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you see the nails driven through his hands, be sure that you are pondering, and when the thorns pierce his brow, know that they are your evil thoughts.
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I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.
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Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.
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What great faith our Lord Jesus Christ asks of us - and how just that is. Do we not owe him such faith? It looks impossible to us, but Jesus is Master of the impossible.
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Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts-it's able to endure temptations-bec ause it faces them, not because it pretends they're not there.
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Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its depth The unfathomed sea!
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Grace is unmerited, undeserved favor and it is free to us all in Christ.
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We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.
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Without Christ there would be no Christmas and without Christ there can be no fulness of JOY.
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Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.
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I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die.
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As believers in Christ, we do not fight for victory; we fight from victory. In Christ’s power, we are invincible.
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Thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ!
