Best 1925 quotes in «christ quotes» category

Since the baptismal rebirth takes place only with the one Bride of Christ, where could he be born who is not a son of the Church?

Since when has obedience to Christ and His Gospel become optional to Christianity?

Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit.

So I'm taking a stand-and I hope others will-to really live what I believe and embrace who I am in Jesus Christ.

So the poor instead of bread made do with a picture of the bleeding scourged and nailed-up Christ and prayed to that image of their helplessness

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.

Speaking truth will rarely earn you friends, but it will reveal who your true friends are and who are true friends of Christ.

Stop trying to fit [Christ] into your life; instead, build your life around [Him].

St John, on Christ's bosom, pray for me in the days of my discipleship, in the house of my faith, in the hour of my death.

Sunday is the best day of the week because we celebrate the risen Christ of the cross in the local church, the dearest place on earth.

Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.

Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,--these are some of our astronomers.

Surely the greatest social injustice is that 2 billion people haven't heard of God's love in Christ.

Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.

Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.

Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.

Tate grabbed me, hugging me so hard, I knew I'd have bruises. He was probably unaware of it, not having had much time to get used to his new strength. I pushed at him, "Tate...you're squeezing me too hard." He let go of me so fast I almost staggered. "Oh Christ, I can't do anything right!

Testimonies are great things about what the Lord has done for us, but no-one will be offended when you talk about what God has done for you. You need to be specific about sin, about Christ's death on the cross, about others' need for a saviour, and about their need to repent and trust in Christ.

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.

Thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ!

That is why the center of our faith isn't just a book, but a history of Salvation, and above all, it's about a person: Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh.

That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.

That image or rather that Person, so human, yet so entirely Divine, has a power to fill the imagination, to arrest the affections, to deepen and purify the conscience, which nothing else in the world has.

That which gives us true freedom and true happiness is the compassionate love of Christ.

That soul is dead to which the Spirit of Christ is not given in the work of regeneration; and all its works are dead works.

The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.

The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.

The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.

The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.

The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ.

The Bible is one book, written by one Author, with one subject: Jesus Christ and the salvation God...provides through Him.

The Bible is the one Word of the one God about the one way of salvation through the one Savior, Jesus Christ.

The Bible stresses that a marriage ideally should be a picture or a reflection of Christ's love for His people.

The biggest obstacle to making Christ magnificent is the refusal to make yourself small.

That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.

The atonement, or forgiveness of sin once and for all achieved on the cross, weighs in, and heavily. But the atonement is confirmed, ratified, sealed, and made enduringly good by virtue of Christ's rising from death. Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now.

The Bible comes both to warn and to encourage and always to turn us again to the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ's church.

The bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw.

The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image.

The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.

The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom.

The characteristic of the first sort of religion is imitation. It insists on imitation: imitate Buddha, imitate Christ, imitate Mahavir, but imitate. Imitate somebody. Don`t be yourself, be somebody else. And if you are very stubborn you can force yourself to be somebody else. You will never be somebody else. Deep down you cannot be. You will remain yourself, but you can force so much that you almost start looking like somebody else.

The chief end for which He lived and died was to provide eternal redemption for mankind.

The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.

The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.

The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma.