C Quotes
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“Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is congregation or meeting-place of all waters in the world: so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet. . . .”
Source: The Method of Grace in Bringing Home the Eternal Redemption ... Being the Second Part of Gospel Redemption: Wherein the Great Mystery of Our Union and Communion with Christ is Opened and Applied ...
“Christ, Abraham’s seed, provided an immortal body for Jesus, a descendant of Jacob and Judah, and will provide immortal bodies for all of Jesus’ spiritual offspring, the sons of God that comprise the Israel of God.”
Source: Three Israels: Living Epistles Ministries
“Christ alone can bring lasting peace - peace with God - peace among men and nations - and peace within our hearts.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone.”
“Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.”
“Christ alone makes possible everything you are and can be as a Christian.”
“Christ alone makes possible everything you are as a Christian.”
Source: The Bare Bones Bible Handbook: 10 Minutes to Understanding Each Book of the Bible
“Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death, the necessity and purpose of serenity and devotion. He lived serenely, as an artist greater than all other artists, scorning marble and clay and paint, working in the living flesh. In other words, this peerless artist, scarcely conceivable with the blunt instrument of our modern, nervous and obtuse brains, made neither statues nor paintings nor books. He maintained in no uncertain terms that he made ... living men, immortals.”
“Christ also takes from us all inclination or power to boast of our national prestige. To me, it is prestige enough to be a Christian--to bear the cross Christ gives me to carry and to follow in the footsteps of the great Crossbearer.”
“Christ always calls us to life and constantly to greater joy, but rarely does He call us to comfort.”
“Christ always had a passion for whatever He was doing. That's how I try to define myself as an athlete. That's the example I try to follow.”
“Christ and his benefits go inseparably and undividedly... Many would willingly receive his privileges, who will not receive his person; but it cannot be; if we will have one, we must take the other too: Yea, we must accept his person first, and then his benefits: as it is in the marriage covenant, so it is here.”
Source: The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel ... To which are added, alphabetical tables of the texts of Scripture explained; and indexes of principal matters contained in the whole
“Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there.”
Source: Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition
“Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.”
Source: Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures
“Christ and his word can hardly be recognized because of the great vermin of human ordinances. However, let this suffice for the time being on their lies against doctrine or faith.”
“Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.”
Source: The Essential Samuel Butler
“Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it up a witness against waste and want and war. It may confess Him, as in Tolstoi's work it does, or it may deny Him, but it cannot exclude Him; and in the degree that it ignores His spirit, modern literature is artistically inferior. In other words, all good literature is now Christmas literature.”
Source: The Friendly Fire
“Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.”
“Christ-as always, the model-never sat back, crossed his arms, and dismissed the annoying, the troublesome, or the unpromising. He never name-called, never judged, never treated a single person with contempt. Christ talked to everybody, he mingled with everybody, he shared his message with everybody, and he also loved everybody. So don't count the cost with anybody either. We don't waste our time with people who don't want what we have to offer. But if they do, one form of martyrdom is to give a listening ear or an understanding smile to all comers.”
“Christ asked for everything he got.”
“Christ asked people who follow him to be the voice for the voiceless - not to wire their mouths shut.”
Source: Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul
“Christ asks for a home in your soul, where he can be at rest with you, where he can talk easily to you, where you and he, alone together, can laugh and be silent and be delighted with one another.”
Source: A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander
“Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously... He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.”
“Christ at the Checkpoint is primarily a public relations scheme to dissuade American evangelicals from pro-Israel views.”
“Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort and restore me.”
Source: An Acceptable Time
“Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort me and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.”
Source: The Writings of Patrick: The Apostle of Ireland. A Revised Translation with Notes Critical and Historical
“Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have hurt worse.”
Source: The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide
“Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.”
Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War
“Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.”
Source: The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne: Volume 3: Sermons Preached at the Court of Charles I
“Christ became one of us to redeem all of us.”
Source: The Lucado Inspirational Reader: Hope and Encouragement for Your Everyday Life
“Christ became our Brother in order to help us. Through him our brother has become Christ for us in the power and authority of the commission Christ has given him. Our brother stands before us the sign of the truth and the grace of God. He has been given to us to help us. He hears the confession of our sins in Christ's stead and he forgives our sins in Christ's name. He keeps the secret of our confession as God keeps it. When I go to my brother to confess, I am going to God.”
“Christ before me, Christ behind me,Christ in me.”
“Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.”
Source: The Writings of Patrick: The Apostle of Ireland. A Revised Translation with Notes Critical and Historical
“Christ birth is the beginning of love for mankind.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Christ birth signifies Salvation for world.”
“Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.”
Source: The Method of Grace, in the Holy Spirits Applying to the Souls of Men the Eternal Redemption Contrived by the Father, and Accomplished by the Son (etc.)
“Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in believers, that it shall not obtain its end and dominion.”
Source: Overcoming Temptation and Sin
“Christ by His intercession is able to save thee beyond the horizon and largest compass of thy thoughts, even to the utmost. In danger Christ lashes us to Himself, as Alpine guides do when there is perilous ice to get over.”
“Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.”
“Christ calls us to carry the Cross; churches call us to have fun in His name.”
“Christ came down to save us from a terrible hell, and any man who is cast down to hell from here must go in the full blaze of the gospel, and over the mangled body of the Son of God.”
“Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.”
Source: Narrative of Sojourner Truth
“Christ came not to possess our brains with some cold opinions, that send down a freezing and benumbing influence into our hearts. Christ was a master of the life, not of the school; and he is the best Christian whose heart beats with the purest pulse towards heaven, not he whose head spins the finest cobweb.”
Source: They know Christ who keep his commandments
“Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can do efficient work, work worth showing. This makes you harsh in your judgment of others who may not have the same talents. Do your best and trust that others do their best. And be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
“Christ came to bring healing to those who are spiritually sick-you say that you are perfectly well, so you must go your own way and Christ will go in another direction-towar ds sinners.”
“Christ came to give us a justifying righteousness, and He also came to make us holy — not chiefly for the purpose of evidencing here our possession of a justifying righteousness — but for the purpose of forming and fitting us for a blessed eternity.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL.D.
“Christ came to help shift our distorted perceptions of God.”
Source: Finding God
“Christ came to save us. If we have taken a wrong course, the Atonement of Jesus Christ can give us the assurance that sin is not a point of no return. A safe return is possible if we will follow God's plan for our salvation”
“Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.”
Source: Credo
“Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become rich.”