C Quotes
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“Christ will be master of the heart, and sin must be mortified. If your life is unholy, then your heart is unchanged, and you are an unsaved person. The Savior will sanctify His people, renew them, give them a hatred of sin, and a love of holiness. The grace that does not make a man better than others is a worthless counterfeit. Christ saves His people, not IN their sins, but FROM their sins. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord.”
“Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.”
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 will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none.”
“Christ will remain a priest and king; though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings; but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed.”
Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt
“Christ will rise on Easter day!”
“Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters; and do you wish to have all men your friends and benefactors? When shall your patience attain her crown if no adversity befalls you? If you are willing to suffer naught that is against you, how will you be the friend of Christ?”
“Christ wishes the Christian Community to be a body that is perfect because we work together towards a single end, and the higher the motive which actuates this collaboration the higher, no doubt, will be the union. Now the end in question is supremely exalted: the continuous sanctification of the Body for the glory of God and the Lamb that was slain [Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament].”
“Christ wishes to raise men up to heaven, and has given them all the means to attain this; whilst the Devil, who himself for his pride was cast down from heaven into the dominions of the air, wishes by every means to attach men to earthly,- sensual, transitory things, and, in order to attain this end, he employs the most powerful, most prodigious means.”
“Christ within us, the hope of glory.”
Source: ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons
“Christ, woman, were you ever going to say anything?”
He grabbed her by the wrist and tugged her down the hall to
the single bathroom. “Get out of that shirt.”
Source: Code Name: Papa
“Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.”
“Christ would not vote for Barack Obama because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved.”
“Christ, would you look at that shite? Supes an' religion, the two worst things on the planet.”
Source: The Boys, Volume 7: The Innocents
“Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.”
Source: The Biblical Illustrator - Vol. 45 - Pastoral Commentary on Romans
“Christ, you’re so fucking tight. It’s like your pussy tries to pull me back in each time I back away, like it never wants to be rid of me again.”
Source: Bloody Fingers & Red Lipstick
“Christ's blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls.”
Source: Temptation and Sin
“Christ's boundless grace confronts our deep necessities. Christ's promised presence confronts our sad and gloomy loneliness. Jesus thus filled with grace so overflowing, with love so tender, with sympathy so exquisite, with power so illimitable, with resources so boundless, with a nature so changeless, stands before us and says to each trembling heart, 'Fear not!'”
Source: Divine Realities; or, spiritual reflections for the saint and sinner
“Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country.”
“Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.”
Source: Complete writings: with variant readings
“Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also his shame. It was not done in a shadow, hidden away somewhere.”
Source: True Spirituality
“Christ's death is the Christian's life. Christ's cross is the Christian's title to heaven. Christ "lifted up" and put to shame on Calvary is the ladder by which Christians "enter into the holiest," and are at length landed in glory.”
Source: Bible commentary - The gospel of John
“Christ's divinity accounts for His exaltation to the right hand of God, justifies the worship of angels and the confidence of mankind. It makes clear His right to the throne of the universe, and enables the mind to understand why He is exalted in providence, in grace, and in judgment. It is the unifying truth that harmonizes all other teachings of Christianity, and renders the entire system symmetrical and complete.”
“Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion; and the stone is not removed out of its place. Faith hath cause to take courage from our very afflictions; the devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints. I know that he but heweth and polisheth stones, all this time, for the new Jerusalem.”
Source: Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life
“Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.”
Source: The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition
“Christ's gospel is the only true gospel.”
“Christ's indwelling presence has freed us from exclusive orientation toward ourselves and opened us up in two directions: toward God, to receive the good things in faith, and toward our neighbor, to pass them on in love.”
Source: Free of Charge
“Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.”
“Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.”
“Christ's lordship is a blessed hope for some & a terrifying nightmare for others. Regardless of our response, it is an unalterable reality.”
“Christ's mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.”
“Christ's miracles were not the suspension of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. They were a reminder of what once was prior to the fall and a preview of what will eventually be a universal reality once again--a world of peace and justice,
without death, disease, or conflict.”
“Christ's miracles were vivid manifestations to the senses that He is the Saviour of the body--and now as then the issues of life and death are in His hands--that our daily existence is a perpetual miracle. The extraordinary was simply a manifestation of God's power in the ordinary.”
Source: Sermons
“Christ's mission is to release the divine into our conscious knowing. He awakens the impulse in humanity to rise above his lower nature and be aware of his higher nature that dwells within.”
“Christ's own 'God-forsaken-ness' on the cross showed me where God is present where God had been present in those nights of deaths in the fire storms in Hamburg and where God would be present in my future whatever may come.”
“Christ's peace can permeate any heart - hearts that are troubled, burdened with grief, confused, and pleading for help.”
“Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Christ's purpose was to really show how everyone can be loved and how everyone should be loved and accepted.”
“Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck.”
“Christ's resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world.”
“Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.”
Source: The Fountain of Life Opened; Or, A Display of Christ in His Essential and Mediatorial Glory. 1671
“Christ's resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.”
“Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.”
“Christ's sacrifice stands in glorious proportions with the work to be done. Nothing else or less would suffice. It is a work supernatural, transacted in the plane of nature; and what but such a work could restore the broken order of the soul under evil?”
“Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.”
“Christ's voice sounds now for each of us in loving invitation; and dead in sin and hardness of heart though we be, we can listen and live. Christ Himself, my brother, sows the seed now. Do you take care that it falls not on, but in, your souls.”
“Christ's whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness — the setting forth in living act and word what man is meant to be, and how he should carry himself in this world of God — one long campaign in which the temptation stands out as the first great battle and victory.”
Source: True Manliness
“Christ's work is a kind of deterrent to us, and a way of upholding the justice of God's divine government of the world.”
“Christ's work needs no repetition. It is final because it is perfect.”
“Christ, as the ultimate Imago Dei is alluded to in scripture as being without external beauty in the Classical sense, and should better be thought of as one who passed through all the slime and mire of a fallen and sinful creation in order to redeem it. His own body is to be remembered for the marks it bears-even in resurrection-of the scars of his sacrificial death. For the Christian, a theory of beauty might better begin at this point.”
“Christ, because of who He is, can look death in the face.”