Best 1925 quotes in «christ quotes» category

...popular fundamentalist theology has emphasized the utility of the cross rather than the beauty of the One who died on it... The "work" of Christ has been stressed until it has eclipsed the person of Christ.

Prayer, as a means of drawing ever new strength from Christ, is concretely and urgently needed.

Pray for the field. If God calls, then prepare for the field. When it is time, go to the field. A life lost for Christ is a life well spent.

Pretty much all films I've seen that depict the life of Christ end with the Crucifixion, almost like the filmmakers don't know what to do after.

Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.

Primary revelation came through Jesus Christ, and I find it distasteful that additional divine finger prints should appear in nature.

Private confession was not ordered by Christ and was not used by the apostles.

Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.

Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ.

Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.

Put your shoulders back, hold your head up high knowing that the same power that raised Christ from the dead lives on the inside of you.

REAL fellowship is being as committed to each other as we are to Jesus Christ.

Real life begins by committing yourself completely to Jesus Christ.

Reality, truth, and Jesus Christ are incredibly open-ended

Redeeming sinners from all nations through Jesus Christ was God's plan from the beginning.

Real, pure, unadulterated freedom happens when the resources of the gospel smash any sense of need to secure for myself anything beyond what Christ has already secured for me.

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me.

Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.'

Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'

Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.

Remember and understand well that where Peter is, there is the Church; that those who refuse to associate in communion with the Chair of Peter belong to Antichrist, not to Christ. He who would separate himself from the Roman Pontiff has no further bond with Christ.

Remember, your worth is founded in Jesus Christ.

Remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.

Remind me," he paused, drawing in a stuttered gasp, "to never piss you off again. Christ, are you secretly a ninja?

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.

Revival is an infusion of new spiritual life imparted by the Holy Spirit to existing parts of Christ's body.

Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.

Salvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift.

Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ.

Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ.

Right faith is of necessity required for Baptism, since it is said: "the justice of God is by faith in Jesus Christ" (Romans 3:22) ... Therefore, Baptism without faith avails nothing and thus we must recall that without faith no one is acceptable to God.

Sanctification is possessing the mind of Christ.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Seasons vary, circumstances change, feelings fluctuate, friendships cool, friends die, but Christ is ever the same.

Scripture knows no other way to glory, but Christ put on and applied by faith.

Share the Gospel. According to the Bible, it is every believer's privilege and responsibility to share the Gospel. If we understand what lies ahead for those who do not know Christ, there will be a sense of urgency in our witness.

Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.

Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.

Self-worth comes from who we are in Christ, not what we accomplish in this world.

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?

Should anyone knock at my heart and say, 'Who lives here?' I should reply, 'Not Martin Luther, but the Lord Jesus Christ.'

Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.

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