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“Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ Himself.”

Men Has Beens Christ Pleasure Sake Miserable Ministers Good Man Alms

Book:Sermons and Discourses on several Subjects and Occasions

Source: Sermons and Discourses on several Subjects and Occasions

“The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for some time on the continent of Africa because for all this time black men had been captivated by the doctrines of Christianity. It took them centuries to realize its contradictions. ... perhaps there was no greater crime as yet than all the lies Western civilization had told in the name of Jesus Christ.”

“May we not have a picture of Christ, who has a true body? By no means; because, though he has a true body and a reasonable soul, John 1:14, yet his human nature subsists in his divine person, which no picture can represent, Psalm 45:2. Why ought all pictures of Christ to be abominated by Christians? Because they are downright lies, representing no more than the picture of a mere man: whereas, the true Christ is God-man”

Men Humans May Mean Persons Soul Body Christian Lying Christ Human Nature Divine Ought Mere Reasonable Representing Psalms

Author:James Fisher

“The beauty of the person of Christ, as represented in the Scripture, consists in things invisible unto the eyes of flesh. They are such as no hand of man can represent or shadow. It is the eye of faith alone that can see this King in his beauty. What else can contemplate on the untreated glories of his divine nature? Can the hand of man represent the union of his natures in the same person, wherein he is peculiarly amiable? What eye can discern the mutual communications of the properties of his different natures in the same person?”

Source: Christologia Or, A Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ, God and Man: With the Infinite Wisdom, Love and Power of God in the Contrivance and Constitution Thereof ...

“When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called clerical somebody), a righteous or unrighteous man,...and throws himself into the arms of God...then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, that is metanoia and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.”

Men Giving Trying Christian Christ Arms Giving Up Saint Sinner Righteous Gethsemane

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the Man Christ without, and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the word of God.”

Ifs Men Able Spirit Christ Differences He Man Divides Word Of God Within You Justification Sanctification

Book:The Riches of Bunyan

Source: The Riches of Bunyan

“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.”

Ifs Men Giving Made Soul Shows Order Christ Enemy Grace Alive Mines Bears Drink Devil Let Me Saint Hunger Revenge Injury Thirst

Author:John Bunyan

“If men pride themselves on the fact that Jesus Christ was born of their sex, the answer is that this was necessary for the sake of decency, for if he had been a woman, it would have been impossible for Jesus to go out at all hours of the day and the night and mingle with the crowds to convert them and to help and save mankind, without creating a scandal.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Facts Helping Night Jesus Sex Christ Born Hours Answers Impossible Mankind Pride Creating Jesus Christ Sake Crowds Scandal Decency

Author:Marie de Gournay

“The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.”

Men Character Facts School Christian Christ Ideals Determined Theology Theological

Author:J. G. Holland

“Think of the majesty of that moment in this dying world's history, when Jesus Christ declared that to the Christian death was only a sleep. Outside of that small dwelling in Capernaum, a great race of men rushed and toiled as they harassed continents and seas; mighty events marshaled themselves into annals and pageants. What was inside? In one inconspicuous chamber of a now forgotten house, man's Redeemer, unobserved, martyred man's final enemy. There Immanuel subdued death forever.”

“In the war upon the powers of darkness, prayer is the primary and mightiest weapon, both in aggressive war upon them and their works; in the deliverance of men from their power; and against them as a hierarchy of powers opposed to Christ and His Church.”

Men War Christ Church Prayer Darkness Weapons Primaries Aggressive Hierarchy Deliverance

Book:War on the Saints: A Text Book on the Work of Deceiving Spirits among the Children of God, and the Way of Deliverance

Source: War on the Saints: A Text Book on the Work of Deceiving Spirits among the Children of God, and the Way of Deliverance

“I am not sure that Christ would have been very satisfied to foresee that He would be looked upon principally as a redeemer and nailed forever upon the cross by human ignorance. It seems to me that He above all desired to bring men a message of truth, that He wanted to heal them of their faults by making an appeal to all their energy; He shook them as much as He could, He did not seek to spare them the trouble.”

Men Humans Has Beens Seems Would Be Wanted Energy Christ Forever Trouble Ignorance Messages Crosses Faults Heal Satisfied Appeals Not Sure Spares Redeemer

Book:The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

Source: The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

“Confronted by a Church that has ceased to manifest God's mercy and intimate connection with humankind - that has converted Christ into a grim and joyless adjunct to the policing of bedrooms and marital intercourse - men and women can no longer see themselves as beloved of God, only as impure and reprehensible.”

Men Christ Church Men And Women Connections Mercy Beloved Intimate Manifest Humankind Bedroom Intercourse Grim

Author:Uta Ranke-Heinemann

“Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me.”

Thinking Men Heart Eye Speak Christ Mouths Ears Every Man Think Of Me Eyes That See

Author:Saint Patrick

“The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. Such a man knows that the call to discipleship is a gift of grace, and that the call is inseparable from the grace. But those who try to use this grace as a dispensation from following Christ are simply deceiving themselves.”

Knows Men Trying Use Left Christ Grace He Man Following Deceiving Justified Discipleship Inseparable Following Christ

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Dying visions of angels and Christ and God and heaven are confined to credibly good men. Why do not bad men have such visions? They die of all sorts of diseases; they have nervous temperaments; they even have creeds and hopes about the future which they cling to with very great tenacity; why do not they rejoice in some such glorious illusions when they go out of the world?”

Men World Death Dies Heaven Christ Vision Dying Disease Illusion Angel Nervous Glorious Good Man Rejoice Creeds Temperament Confined Tenacity Bad Man

Book:Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible

Source: Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible

“In Christ's resurrection, therefore, the Christian man sees the earnest and pledge of his own resurrection; and by it he is enheartened as he lays away the bodies of those dear to him, not sorrowing "as the rest that have no hope," but with hearts swelling with glad anticipations of the day when they shall rise to meet their Lord. "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will He bring with Him.”

Ifs Men Believe Heart Body Christian Jesus Christ Lord Died Lays Rose Dear Glad Fallen Resurrection Anticipation Easter Earnest Pledge No Hope Swelling

Author:B. B. Warfield

“I know that some are always studying the meaning of the fourth toe of the right foot of some beast in prophecy and have never used either foot to go and bring men to Christ. I do not know who the 666 is in Revelation but I know the world is sick, sick, sick and the best way to speed the Lord's return is to win more souls for Him.”

Knows Men World Way Soul Used Winning Christ Lord Study Feet Return Sick Speed Best Way Beast Revelations Fourth Prophecy Toes

Book:It is Time

Source: It is Time

“You will live to see men arise in power in the Church who will seek to put down your friends and the friends of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Many will be hoisted because of their money and worldly learning which they seem to be in possession of; and many who are the true followers of our Lord and Savior will be cast down because of their poverty.”

Men Seems Jesus Christ Church Lord Poverty Jesus Christ Casts Possession Arise Followers Savior Worldly Our Lord Savior Jesus

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“About Mahatma Gandhi: Great in taking decisions, great in executing them, Mahatma Gandhi was incomparably great in the last stand which he made on behalf of his country. He is undoubtedly one of the greatest men the world has ever seen. The world hath need of him, and if he is mocked and jeered at by "the people of importance," "the people with a stake in this country," - the Scribes and Pharisees of the days of Christ - he will be gratefully remembered, now and always, by a nation which he led from victory to victory.”

People Ifs Men World Needs Made Country Lasts Nations Christ Decision Victory Importance Remembered Stakes Behalf Executing Greatest Man Pharisees Scribes Last Stand

Author:Chittaranjan Das

“The enthronement of Christ over the minds of men is steadily going forward. His kingdom embraces the princes in the realm of mind. It embraces the nations of highest civilization. They are all beneath the cross. It is maintained by simple authority. Other mental monarchs rule by logic; Christ's word is law--it is satisfying to His subjects. His truth in the hands of His disciples, like the bread He broke upon the mountains, is an ample supply for the millions that gather at His table.”

“All the ideals and beliefs you ever had have crashed about your gun-deafened ears - you don't believe in God or them or the infallibility of England or anything but bloody war and wounds and foul smells and smutty stories and smoke and bombs and lice and filth and noise, noise, noise - you live in a world of cold sick fear, a dirty world of darkness and despair - you want to crawl ignominiously home away from these painful writhing things that once were men, these shattered, tortured faces that dumbly demand what it's all about in Christ's name.”

“Of all persecuted sects, the Baptists stand forth as most prominent, simply and only because they aim at a more complete and thorough reform than any others ever attempted. They teach that Christ's kingdom is not of this world; that the church is not a national, political, or provincial establishment; but a congregation of holy men, separated from the world by the receiving of the Holy Spirit.”

Source: Babtists, the Only Thorough Religious Reformers

“Just as a man does not desire food until he is hungry, so does he not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ.”

Knows Men Needs Doe Desire Christ Salvation Hungry

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men.”

Men Wanted Christ Pride Devil

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“On the contrary, therefore, Christ declares that the doctrine of the Gospel, though it is preached to all without exception, cannot be embraced by all, but that a new understanding and a new perception are requisite; and, therefore, that faith does not depend on the will of men, but that it is God who gives it.”

Men Giving Doe Understanding Christ Depends Perception Contrary Doctrine Exception

Book:John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 1 (Annotated Edition)

Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 1 (Annotated Edition)

“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?”

Ifs Men World Made Jesus Force Christ Existence Christianity Arms Jesus Christ Mark Mere Deny Invention Infidel Bribery

Author:J. C. Ryle

“In every Magical, or similar system, it is invariably the first condition which the Aspirant must fulfill: he must once and for all and for ever put his family outside his magical circle.Even the Gospels insist clearly and weightily on this.Christ himself (i.e. whoever is meant by this name in this passage) callously disowns his mother and his brethren (Luke VIII, 19). And he repeatedly makes discipleship contingent on the total renunciation of all family ties. He would not even allow a man to attend his father's funeral!Is the magical tradition less rigid?Not on your life!”

Men Firsts Mother Father Names Christ Conditions Tradition Circles Ties Funeral Passages Discipleship Brethren Luke Renunciation Family Ties

Author:Aleister Crowley

“Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any other way than by His righteousness. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient for salvation. There must be atonement made for sin according to the righteousness of God. The person to make this atonement must be God and man.”

Men Way Persons Made Suffering Jesus Christ Sin Lord Jesus Christ Salvation Seeking Sufficient Rely Righteousness Justified Our Lord Atonement Lord Jesus Christ Our Lord Jesus Christ

Author:John Wycliffe

“The nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ask for his mercy and find peace, or else it will turn against Him because it is not yet ready to give up its sinfulness. Thus He will separate the good from the bad, the wheat from the chaff. Man's reaction to this Divine Presence will be the test: either it will call out all the opposition of egotistic natures, or else galvanize them into a regeneration and a resurrection.”

Men Giving Heart Turns Asks Christ Divine Ready Giving Up Conscious Tests Mercy Guilt Reactions Opposition Resurrection Wheat Finding Peace Regeneration Sinfulness Ready To Give Up

Book:Life of Christ

Source: Life of Christ

“Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?”

Men Heart May Soul Winning Christ Sin Lord Break Plans Broken Pardon Happy Day

Author:Oscar Wilde

“The doctrine of Christ enjoins men, all brothers in His eyes, to love one another.”

Men Eye Christ Brother Doctrine His Eyes Love One Another

Author:Leon Bourgeois

“Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.”

Men May Together Suffering Jesus Names Christ Perfect Jesus Christ Endure Empowering Perfect Man

Author:Ignatius of Antioch

“I will tell you the secret: God has had all that there was of me. There have been men with greater brains than I, even with greater opportunities, but from the day I got the poor of London on my heart and caught a vision of what Jesus Christ could do with me and them, on that day I made up my mind that God should have all of William Booth there was. And if there is anything of power in the Salvation Army, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.”

“The Christian religion and Masonry have one and the same common origin: Both are derived from the worship of the Sun. The difference between their origin is, that the Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun.”

Men Christian Christ Differences Common Pay Sun Worship Paid Adoration Parody Masonry

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time, But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man, O love's best Love, O perfect life in perfect labor writ, O all men's Comrade, Servant, King, or Priest, -- What IF or YET, what mole, what flaw, what lapse, What least defect or shadow of defect, What rumor, tattled by an enemy, Of inference loose, what lack of grace Even in torture's grasp, or sleep's, or death's -- Oh, what amiss may I forgive in Thee, Jesus, good Paragon, Thou Crystal Christ?”

Source: Poems of Sidney Lanier

“I believe the message in the hymn "Rise Up, O Men of God" (Hymns, no. 324) is a plea, a call, a divine invitation for us to rise above the telestial tinsel of our time; to deny ourselves of ungodliness and clothe ourselves in the mantle of holiness; to reach and stretch and grasp for that spiritual direction and sacred empowerment promised to the Lord's agents, to those charged to act in the name of our Principal, Jesus Christ; and to point the way to salvation and deliverance and peace in a world that finds itself enshrouded in darkness, a world that yearns for spiritual leadership.”

“Just as the lame man at the pool of Bethesda needed someone stronger than himself to be healed (see John5:1-9), so we are dependent on the miracles of Christ's atonement if our souls are to be made whole from grief, sorrow, and sin”

Ifs Men Made Soul Whole Christ Sin Grief Needed Sorrow Miracle Stronger Dependent Pool Healed Atonement Lame Needed Someone

Author:Merrill J. Bateman

“I believe that that foolish man of Galilee, Jesus Christ, had something to tell us, to tell me. Not considering his existence here, I would immediately go into despair. Immediately. And forgetting him, I would first despair of the institutional church and its hierarchy, and only later, of the Jews.”

Men Firsts Believe Jesus I Believe Christ Church Forget Existence Despair Jesus Christ Jew Foolish Considering Hierarchy Foolish Man

Author:Elias Chacour

“If any man doth ascribe of salvation, even the very least, to the free will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright.”

Ifs Men Jesus Christ Grace Jesus Christ Salvation Free Will

Author:Martin Luther

“Let all Arminians know: we have as high an esteem for faith as any men in the world, but yet we will not rob Christ to clothe faith.”

Knows Men World Christ Esteem

Author:John Flavel

“The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.”

Men Spiritual Process Christ Principles Grace Receiving Passive

Book:The marrow of theology

Source: The marrow of theology

“Christ quickens none but the dead. Why do not the papists attain to this grace of justification? They never see themselves wholly dead, but join some life to the natural estate of man. Therefore Christ quickens them not.”

Men Christ Natural Grace Justification Estates

Book:Works of Richard Sibbes: Expositions and treatises from portions of several of the Epistles of St. Paul

Source: Works of Richard Sibbes: Expositions and treatises from portions of several of the Epistles of St. Paul

“I would know any man as a Christian, would rejoice to know any man as a Christian, whom Jesus would recognize as a Christian; and Jesus Christ, I am sure, in these old days recognized His followers even if they came after Him with the blindest sight, with the most imperfect recognition and acknowledgment of what He was and of what He could do.”

Ifs Knows Men Soul Christian Jesus Christ Jesus Christ Sight Recognition Followers Imperfect Rejoice Old Days Acknowledgment

Author:Phillips Brooks

“How much more forcefully can I say it? The time has come, and it is long overdue, when Christians and conservatives and all men and women who believe in the birthright of freedom must rise up and reclaim America for Jesus Christ.”

Men Believe Long Christian America Jesus Christ Men And Women Jesus Christ Scary Birthright Overdue

Author:D. James Kennedy

“If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.”

Ifs Men Believe Enough Christ Thousand Murder Salvation Scary Commit Adultery

Author:Martin Luther

“I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze and so do you. Not out of disrespect. Out of pique. Out of a man-to-man thing.”

Men Want God Jesus Christ Watches Kissing Jesus Christ Noses Disrespect Pique

Author:Anne Sexton

“Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!”

Men Christ Theory Revolution Fellows Fellow Man God Is Love Russian Revolution

Author:Isadora Duncan

“Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.”

“You know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making the love of a buck, the cushy job, more important than the love of man. It's forgetting that every fellow down here's your brother in Christ.”

Knows Men Important Jobs Christ Forget Money Brother Fellows Brotherhood Bucks Your Brother

Book:On the Waterfront: The Final Shooting Script

Source: On the Waterfront: The Final Shooting Script