C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Christ--the quickest way to send a bloke mad is to let him go on re-fighting his war till he gets it right.”
Source: The Light Between Oceans
“Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.”
Source: Discovering the Intimate Marriage
“Christ told the rich young man to sell all he had,” Ernest said bitterly. “The Bishop obeyed Christ's injunction and got locked up in a madhouse. Times have changed since Christ's day. A rich man to-day who gives all he has to the poor is crazy. There is no discussion. Society has spoken.”
Source: The Iron Heel
“Christ took hold of the work of the world's saving in a larger way than it is possible for us to do, and therefore the burden of His undertaking came upon Him in a heavier, wider, and more crushing way than it can come upon us; and therefore, while it overwhelmed Him in sorrow, our smaller mission and lighter task can with entire propriety leave us buoyant and gladsome.”
“Christ took our hell so that we might take His heaven.”
“Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous.”
“Christ took your cup of grief, your cup of the curse, pressed it to his lips, drank it to its dregs, then filled it with his sweet, pardoning, sympathizing love, and gave it back for you to drink, and to drink forever!”
“Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].”
“Christ used death to destroy death.”
“Christ used the flesh and blood of Mary for his life on earth, the Word of love was uttered in her heartbeat. Christ used his own body to utter his love on earth; his perfectly real body, with bone and sinew and blood and tears; Christ uses our bodies to express his love on earth, our humanity. A Christian life is a sacramental life, it is not a life lived only in the mind, only by the soul... Our humanity is the substance of the sacramental life of Christ in us, like the wheat for the host, like the grape for the chalice.”
Source: A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader
“Christ uses our suffering to display His glory.”
“Christ walked the path every mortal is called to walk so that he would know how to succor and strengthen us in our most difficult times. He knows the deepest and most personal burdens we carry. He knows the most public and poignant pains we bear. He descended below al such grief in order that he might lift us above it. There is no anguish or sorrow or sadness in life that he has not suffered in our behalf and borne away upon his own valiant and compassionate shoulders.”
“Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible, by faith in the omnipotence, fidelity, and wisdom of the Almighty Saviour Who gave the command. Is there a wall in our path? By our God we will leap over it! Are there lions and scorpions in our way? We will trample them under our feet! Does a mountain bar our progress? Saying, 'Be thou cast into the sea,' we will march on. Soldiers of Jesus! Never surrender!”
“Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.”
“Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love to them.”
Source: The New Life
“Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?”
“Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews.”
Source: Works
“Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.”
“Christ was a Jew, and God, he is supposed to have made the universe. That's a little far-fetched because if God made the world, who made God?”
“Christ was Begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers.”
“Christ was born in a manger, laying down amongst donkeys ang goats. He was given gifts of incense and perfume. No kidding.”
“Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.”
“Christ was born of a woman without the man.”
“Christ was crucified because he threatened the tonal of the time. He was killed because he threatened the established order of the political regime.”
“Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to form a party, an interest group, a mass movement, but wanted to be what he was, the truth, which is related to the single individual. Therefore everyone who will genuinely serve the truth is by that very fact a martyr. To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions. But no witness to the truth dares to get involved with the crowd.”
“Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God sent them a spiritual leader to rescue them from their sins.... He was not what the Jews had expected so they considered Him a threat. Thus He was put to death.”
“Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Christ was either liar, lunatic, or Lord!”
“Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest in the flesh.”
Source: Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration
“Christ was made man that we might be made God.”
“Christ was of course not the slightest bit envious. His perspective was to take care of the poor not out of hatred for the rich, but out of love for the poor; and though we try to imitate His teachings, due to our corrupt and sinful nature, oftentimes, this obvious fact is still so easily neglected.”
“Christ was on display early in my childhood. Both my mother and father were living examples of what it meant to live for Christ and have Him be the focal point of decisions, actions, thoughts and words. It was a blessing but not entirely unexpected when very young I also came to the faith.”
“Christ was one person, limited to ministry in only one place at a time. In order to minister as an omnipresent Spirit, Jesus relinquished His fleshly dimension with its limitations of time and place. He entered a higher realm of restoration and love by becoming an indwelling Spirit.”
“Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.”
Source: Samuel Butler's notebooks
“Christ was the first feminist and because of that I've learned from his teaching to call myself a Christian feminist, adding that her faith is not a matter of traditions and dogmas but, rather, a spiritual experience.”
“Christ was the first to be resurrected and never die again.”
“Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.”
Source: The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry ...
“Christ was the one washing the leper's feet so he was very, very humble, but it's not the way People are putting it down now. They feel as though God is that up there and they are that down there and they don't realise that they are God and that Christ was exactly the same as us but he realises that he was God.”
“Christ was treated as we deserve that we may be treated as He deserves. He was condemned for our sins, in which He had no share, that we might be justified by His righteousness, in which we had no share. He suffered the death which was ours, that we might receive the life which was His. 'By His stripes we are healed.”
“Christ was vitoe magister, not scholoe; and he is the best Christian whose heart beats with the purest pulse towards heaven; not he whose head spinneth out the finest cobwebs.”
“Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?.”
“Christ wasn’t only a yogi; he was an activist, carrying his message to those who most needed it.”
Source: The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic
“Christ wasn't a Christian and Buddha wasn't a Buddhist and Muhammad wasn't Muslim. These people were having the experience of unity consciousnesses and universal consciousness and they spoke of it in words.”
“Christ wasn't teaching people to hate Jews. He was a Jew himself. He wasn't teaching people to hate anybody who didn't believe as he did.”
“Christ wears "two shoes" in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.”
“Christ, Weber, you’re my prince, idiot. You were never a frog”
Source: Frog
“Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.”
Source: The Christian Soldier: Or, Heaven Taken by Storm, Shewing the Holy Violence a Christian is to Put Forth in the Pursuit After Glory. To which is Added: The Happiness of Drawing Near to God, and The Saint's Desire to be with Christ
“Christ! What are patterns for?”
Source: Selected Poems of Amy Lowell
“Christ when I arise, Christ with me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ before me, Christ in my heart." - St Patrick The spring of waters surrounds us.”
“Christ will always accept the faith that puts its trust in Him”