Christ Quotes

• Men of an amiable, yielding temper, willing to take the lowest place; to be least of all; and the servants to all...who live near God, and who are willing to suffer all things for Christ's sake without being proud of it - these are the men we need.

  

  Ann Hasseltine Judson
  • Need
  • Christ
  • Temper

• Have we forgotten our calling? Remember that your first and foremost calling is to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ, and that gospel is a twofold message: His death for our sins and His resurrection for our lives.

  

  Kay Arthur
  • Remember
  • Sin
  • Forgotten

• Love is costly. T forgive in love costs us our sense of justice. To serve in love costs us time. To share in love costs us money. Every act of love costs us in some way, just as it cost God to love us. But we are to live a life of love just as Christ loves us and gave Himself for us at great cost to Himself.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Love Is

• Paul did not see himself as switching religions. He came to realize that Christ was the fulfillment of Judaism, of everything that God had planned and revealed within the sacred Jewish Scriptures.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Christ
  • Religions
  • Scriptures

• Very often, (in near-death experiences) the person encounters a divine or angelic being. This may be described as Christ, an angel, even God.

  

  Raymond Moody
  • Death
  • Christ
  • Encounters

• Christ was either liar, lunatic, or Lord!

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Christ
  • Lord
  • Lunatic

• Christ is the head of the corpus mysticum, which includes all men from the beginning of the world to its end. He is not the president of a special-interest club.

  

  Eric Voegelin
  • Beginning
  • President
  • Club

• The sufferings and death of Jesus Christ are a substitution for the endless punishment of all who truly believe on Him.

  

  Nehemiah Adams
  • Christ
  • Punishment
  • Sufferings

• Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Great
  • Conclusion
  • Distinction

• Once we truly grasp the message of the New Testament, it is impossible to read the Old Testament again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative. The Bible must be read as a whole, beginning with Genesis and ending with Revelation, letting promise and fulfillment guide or expectations for what we will find there.

  

  Michael Horton
  • Christian
  • Bible
  • Promise

• The man who will present Christ to others must be occupied with Christ for Himself.

  

  Charles Henry Mackintosh
  • Christ

• For generations, the body of Christ has been defeated and put under a constant siege of condemnation from the accuser because they believe wrongly that the Holy Spirit convicts believers of their sins.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • Believe
  • Spirit
  • Sin

• It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Community
  • Goals
  • Christ

• At the end of the day, we need to stop thinking about what we can make of ourselves and start thinking more about who God is, what he has done and is doing in Christ for us and for our neighbors, and how he can use us and our fellow brothers and sisters to be instruments of his gift-giving.

  

  Michael Horton
  • Neighbor
  • Brothers
  • Sisters

• My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive whatever God assigns, and a determination to practice the sacrificial principle of Isaiah 58:10-11. Life becomes not only far simpler, but surprisingly joyful and free.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Practice
  • Surrender

• What would Christ do if he were in my situation?

  

  Chieko N. Okazaki
  • Christ
  • Situation

• Christ's suffering was redemptive not because suffering itself is redemptive, but because Christ himself is the Redeemer.

  

  Edmund Clowney
  • Suffering
  • Christ
  • Redeemer

• I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit. It may be true, however, that my work has been so Christ-centred, I may have given the impression that the Holy Spirit is an afterthought.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • Spirit
  • Commitment
  • Evidence

• Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God's word by the loss of earthly joys sickness destroying the flavor of them all did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. And wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ, and to know that I love Him this is all.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Love
  • Prayer
  • Mystery

• Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Desire
  • Christ
  • Lift

• God does not give grace freely in the sense that He will demand no satisfaction, but He gave Christ to be the satisfaction for us.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Christ
  • Satisfaction

• If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Wisdom
  • Christ

• For Christ plays in ten thousand places, Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his To the Father through the features of men’s faces.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Father
  • Eye
  • Faces

• I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, but truth.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • Christianity
  • Protection
  • Appearance

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