C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there wouldn't be any freedom.”
“Christ died for me and you, and we embrace that or we don't.”
“Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.”
Source: The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
“Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?”
“Christ died for the truth.”
“Christ died not so that you could freely go on sinning, and therefore, continue dying; He died rather so that you could freely grow in obedience, and therefore, start living.”
Source: Healology
“Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.”
“Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.”
“Christ died"--that is history; "Christ died for our sins"--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity.”
Source: Christianity and Liberalism
“Christ died. He left a will in which He gave His soul to His Father, His body to Joseph of Arimathea, His clothes to the soldiers, and His mother to John. But to His disciples, who had left all to follow Him, He left not silver or gold, but something far better-His PEACE!”
“Christ does not choose you because you are good, but to make you good.”
“Christ does not control his subjects by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through His grace, freely devoted to His service.”
Source: Alarm to the Unconverted
“Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most beautiful characters the world has ever seen, have been those who received and lived these precepts without once conceiving their beauty.”
“Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.”
Source: The Way of Perfection
“Christ does not fulfill the human element, but he certainly fulfills every other need in your life. As far as I'm concerned, there's no better love affair.”
“Christ does not inhabit buildings or a certain atmosphere; in fact, the very heavens cannot contain Him. Rather, He is manifested through our obedient, sanctified bodies-His temples.”
“Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.”
“Christ doesn't keep score. It's not about what you do here. It's about the person you are. It's about your faith. That's one thing that I'd like for young kids or anybody to know.”
“Christ, don't go to the Haunted Houses with Ally and Indy. A few years ago, Indy went berserk and broke through the hay bales they had set up to make the haunted trail and headed into the cornfields. All the employees chased after her but since they were dressed like monsters, Indy lost her mind. They had to call the cops to settle her down."
I lost him at "cornfields".
"Cornfields?" I whispered.
"Yeah."
"They have a haunted trail through cornfields?"
"Yeah, up in Thornton. Best Haunted House in Denver. Indy and Ally go every year. Why?"
"Cornfields freak me out," I admitted.
Hank was silent.
Then, he said, "You're from Indiana. How in the fuck can cornfields freak you out?"
"Cornfields don't freak me out. Cornfields at night freak me out. Haunted cornfields at night freak me out."
"You been to many haunted cornfields?"
"Dude," I said low. "All cornfields are haunted. Trust me. I know... They whisper to you.”
Source: Rock Chick Redemption
“Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.”
Source: The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed
“Christ embraced me with all my sin and guilt that I may embrace him in all his righteousness.”
Source: The Cross He Bore: Meditations on the Sufferings of the Redeemer
“Christ entered our world. As a result, we can enter His.”
Source: God Came Near: God's Perfect Gift
“Christ exhausted the cup of God’s wrath. For all who trust in Him there is nothing more in the cup. It is empty.”
“Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God.”
“Christ for the world, for the world needs Christ!”
“Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.”
Source: A Journey Toward Heaven: A Daily Devotional from the Sermons of Jonathan Edwards
“Christ got angry and still gets angry, for he is the perfect human, who loves too much to remain indifferent. And this righteous anger reflects his heart, his tender compassion. But because his deepest heart is tender compassion, he is the quickest to get angry and feels anger most furiously--and all without a hint of sin tainting that anger.”
Source: Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
“Christ greatly delights in
his people and they greatly
delight in him”
“Christ had a specific evangelizing goal in mind when he prayed at the Last Supper that all his disciples 'be one...'The Church's evangelizing mission, therefore, moves along the path of ecumenism, the path of unity of faith, of evangelical witness and authentic fraternity.”
“Christ had died for this man too: how could he pretend with his pride and lust and cowardice to be any more worthy of that death than the half-caste”
Source: The Power and the Glory
“Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.”
“Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them. In our own presentation of Christ's gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness. In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.”
“Christ has given us, not only the ritual of an ordinance, but the pattern for our lives, when He took the cup, and gave thanks. So common joys become sacraments, enjoyment becomes worship, and the cup which holds the bitter or the sweet skillfully mingled for our lives becomes the cup of blessing and salvation drank in remembrance of Him.”
Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture
“Christ has global funeral, every Sunday and since twenty centuries. (Jésus a des funérailles mondiales, - Tous les dimanches, et depuis vingt siècles.)”
“Christ has lifted woman to a new place in the world. And just in proportion as Christianity has sway, will she rise to a higher dignity in human life. What she has now, and what she shall have, of privilege and true honor, she owes to that gospel which took those qualities peculiarly and which had been counted weak and unworthy, and gave them a Divine glory in Christ.”
Source: Christianity's Challenge and Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration
“Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.”
“Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.”
“Christ has meant everything to our marriage. It was my commitment to Christ and the words from my grandmother that made me stick with Phil [Robertson] when there wasn't much to hold on to. How has Phil changed? Do you have a year to hear about it? His love for the outdoors, his pioneer spirit, and his quest for adventure has not changed. But his heart has been turned inside out. He's a new man in every way that involves relationships.”
“Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.”
“Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.”
“Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes with which Christ looks out his compassion to the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now.”
“Christ has no body now on earth but yours.”
“Christ has no place in the life that is not dominated by the Word. - T.B. Joshua”
“Christ has no velvet crosses.”
“Christ has not conquered my affections if He has to compete for my attention.”
“Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.”
Source: What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855
“Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.”
“Christ has something in common with all creatures. With the stone he shares existence, with the plants he shares life, with the animals he shares sensation, and with the angels he shares intelligence. Thus all things are transformed in Christ since in the fullness of his nature he embraces some part of every creature.”
“Christ has taken our nature into Heaven to represent us; and has left us on earth, with His nature, to represent Him.”
Source: The Select Works of the Rev. John Newton: ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life & C