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Source: Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon, Late Senior Fellow of King's College and Minister of Trinity Church, Cambridge: With a Selection from His Writings and Correspondence

“Jesus' call to bear the cross places all who follow him in the community of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiving sins is the Christ-suffering required of his disciples. It is required of all Christians.”

Christian Suffering Jesus Christ Community Sin Bears Crosses Forgiving Disciple Forgiveness Of Sins

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's" showed a contempt for the affairs of state and its politics for the moral order that their self-respect would not let them tolerate.”

Giving Self States Order Christ Moral Enemy Bears Independence Affair Self Respect Contempt Tolerate Emperor

Author:John Carroll

“That there are three persons, yet but one God, that do bear witness to the divinity of Christ, and of the plenteous redemption wrought by him”

Persons Three Christ Bears Redemption Witness Divinity

Book:Expository notes, with practical observations, on the New Testament

Source: Expository notes, with practical observations, on the New Testament

“Radical Christians are not people who wear Christian t-shirts. Radical Christians are those who bear fruit of the Holy Spirit...A little boy, Andrew, a Muslim shot him five times through the stomach and left him on a sidewalk simply because he said, 'I am so afraid, but I can not deny Jesus Christ! Please don't kill me! But I will not deny Him!' He died in a pool of blood, and you talk about being a radical Christian because you wear a t-shirt!”

“Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of Christian doctrine? . . . these religious debates - questions of the nature of God, or of Christ - simultaneously bear social and political implications that are crucial to the development of Christianity as an institutional religion. In simplest terms, ideas which bear implications contrary to that development come to be labeled as 'heresy'; ideas which implicitly support it become 'orthodox.'”

“As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.”

Knows May Pain Joy Mother Jesus Christ Love Is Dying Bears Jesus Christ Blessed Endless Bores

Book:Daily Readings with Julian of Norwich

Source: Daily Readings with Julian of Norwich

“You shall by faith sustain yourself and comfort yourself in your Lord, and be strong in His power; for you are in the beaten and common way to heaven, when you are under our Lord's crosses. You have reason to rejoice in it, more than in a crown of gold; and rejoice and be glad to bear the reproaches of Christ.”

Way Reason Strong Heaven Christ Common Lord Bears Comfort Crosses Gold Glad Rejoice Crowns Beaten Our Lord Reproach

Book: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

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

“Therefore if mine enemy hunger, let me feed him; if he thirst, let me give him drink. Now in order to do this, (1) We must see good in that, in which other men can see none. (2) We must pass by those injuries that other men would revenge. (3) We must show we have grace, and that we are made to bear what other men are not acquainted with. (4) Many of our graces are kept alive, by those very things that are the death of other men's souls.... The devil, (they say) is good when he is pleased; but Christ and His saints, when displeased.”