Christ Quotes
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Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: ''the Son, O how unlike the Father!'' First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.
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So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.
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Just as you did not come to Christ on your own, neither will you remain in Christ on your own.
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If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.
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The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.
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Music is not my life. Christ is my life.
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The temple is the house of the Lord. The basis for every temple ordinance and covenant…is the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Every activity, every lesson, all we do in the Church, point to the Lord and His holy house.
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I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ.
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Here is also to be noted, that the cause of the institution was to be a memorial, to testify that Christ's body was given, and his blood shed for us.
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Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.
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If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.
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Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.
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Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through His people. Had there been importunate, universal, and continuous prayer by God's people, long ere this the earth had been possessed for Christ.
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It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees.
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Christ is still in Christmas, and for one brief season the secular world broadcasts the message of Christ over every radio station and television channel in the land. Never does the church get as much free air time as during the Christmas season.
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To be in Christ -that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you-that is sanctification.
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In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.
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We are all missionaries. Wherever we go we either bring people nearer to Christ or we repel them from Christ.
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We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.
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One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.
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If Jesus can live in you and you are no different than the world around you, something got short circuited because Jesus makes a difference.
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The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us.
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One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in order that we may take the burden of these souls before Him and form the mind of Christ about them. It is not that we bring God into touch with our minds, but that we rouse ourselves until God is able to convey His mind to us about the one for whom we intercede.
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When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive.
