I Quotes
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“If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.”
“If Christ cannot supersede the Law, then I am lost, and lost forever.”
Source: Aggressive Christianity: Practical Sermons
“If Christ could make a complaint, it would be, "My bride never talks to me".”
“If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the Bread of Heaven.”
“If Christ does not appear to meet his 144,000 faithful shortly after midnight on February 6th or 7th, it means that my calculations, based on the Bible, must be revised.”
“If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have been a spark of hope for us. There would have been a mighty gulf between ourselves and God, which no man ever could have passed.”
Source: Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity
“If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally _all_ things. He will see to it that they are added unto us. If we follow Jesus and look only to His righteousness, we are in his hands and under the protection of Him and His Father. And if we are in communion with the Father, nought can harm us. God will help us in the hour of need, and He knows our needs.”
“If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.”
Source: Collected Works Vol. 2
“If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer. I must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me. I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. I must be holy for His sake. How can I live in sin when He has died to save me from it?”
“If Christ has once possessed the affections, there is no dispossessing of him again. A fire in the heart overcomes all fires without.”
Source: The Bruised Reed
“If Christ has risen the Bible is true from Genesis to Revelation. The kingdom of darkness has been overthrown. Satan has fallen like lightning from heaven; and the triumph of truth over error, of good over evil, of happiness over misery, is forever secured.”
Source: Systematic Theology
“If Christ Himself needed to retire from time to time to the mountain-top to pray, lesser men need not be ashamed to acknowledge that necessity.”
“If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power.”
“If Christ is not ALL to you he is NOTHING to you”
“If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing to you.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 17: Sermons 968 to 1027
“If Christ is not everything, He is nothing. He who has Christ has everything.”
“If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen-nothing else matters.”
“If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging-home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend . . . ye may look death in the face with joy.”
Source: Letters of ... Samuel Rutherford, whith biogr. notices of his correspondents, by J. Anderson, and a sketch of his life, &c., by A.A. Bonar
“If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.”
“If Christ Jesus has already die for the sins of humankind, we can only be saved if we seek him.”
“If Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins.”
Source: The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne
“If Christ lives in us, controlling our personalities, we will leave glorious marks on the lives we touch. Not because of our lovely characters, but because of his.”
Source: WOMAN TO WOMAN
“If Christ lives in us, we will rejoice in everything, and we will thank and praise the Lord. We will say, 'Hallelujah! Praise the Lord' forever.”
Source: The Overcoming Life: The Basis for the Normal Christian Life
“If Christ seldom makes offers without demands, He also seldom makes demands without offers. He offers His strength to enable us to meet His demands.”
“If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
“If Christ taught us anything it is this -- not to let our fear of death keep us from doing the good thing.”
“If Christ was selfish, he would not have been a Saviour.”
“If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.”
“If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.”
“If Christ were only a cistern we might soon exhaust his fullness but who can drain a fountain?”
Source: Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon
“If Christ would have left Christian ethics codified on the table, then he wouldn't produce moral beings choosing between good and evil, but conformists fulfilling orders. I think the same can be said about the Bible.”
“If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.”
Source: Breakfast with Buddha: A Novel
“If Christian people work together, they can succeed during this decade in winning back control of the institutions that have been taken from them over the past 70 years. Expect confrontations that will be not only unpleasant but at times physically bloody. When it is over, I am convinced God's people will emerge victorious.”
“If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.”
“If Christian, we open the Holy Bible. And read, they shall grow in the knowledge of Christ Jesus.”
“If Christianity cannot present evidence that the soul is immortal, then they have nothing to offer the masses, eternity in heaven with God or hold over their heads suffering forever in hell. They need the immortality of the soul. I did my research, it's not in the Bible, so what do they do? They relied on Judaism, which has always believed in the immortality of the soul. I start checking on that and I look in the Judaica Encyclopedia and what do I find? Their remark that Judaism probably got the immortality of the soul from the Greeks, so I go back further, where it all started with Plato.”
“If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.”
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?”
“If Christianity is dull and boring, if it is a burden and not a blessing, then most likely we are involved in a project, not a Person - a system not a Savior, rules rather than a relationship.”
“If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.”
Source: Science And Health
“If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.”
Source: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays
“If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere.”
“If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just 'dogmatically' true or 'doctrinally' true. Rather, it is true to what is there, true in the whole area of the whole man in all of life.”
Source: Art and the Bible
“If Christianity is to be presented as the hope of the future, then it must be presented to men as a total life and world view.”
“If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all”
Source: God in the Dock
“If Christianity is valid, why is there so much evil in the world?" To this the famous preacher replied, "With so much soap, why are there so many dirty people in the world? Christianity, like soap, must be personally applied if it is to make a difference in our lives.”
“If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.”
“If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.”
“If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.”