Christ Quotes - Page 6

• God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.

  Watchman Nee

  Jesus, Son, Answers

  Watchman Nee (1992). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 1 - Hardcover: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.203, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• As the print of the seal on the wax is the express image of the seal itself, so Christ is the express image - the perfect representation of God.

  Ambrose

  Jesus, Perfect, Print

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• We are awakening to that marvelous truth, that Christ is not in the heavens only, nor the atmosphere only, but Christ is in you.

  John G. Lake

  Heaven, Atmosphere, Awakening

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• Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

  Philip Schaff

  Song, Gratitude, Book

  Philip Schaff (1885). “The History of the Christian Church (Complete)”, p.182, Library of Alexandria

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• Christ before me, Christ behind me,Christ in me.

  Saint Patrick

  Saint, Behinds

  St Patrick's Breastplate, traditionally attributed to the saint.

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• If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Want, Wells

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• When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

  George W. Bush

  Heart, Humor, Political

  "Liberties" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 1999.

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• Jesus Christ is to me the outstanding personality of all time, all history, both as Son of God and as Son of Man. Everything he ever said or did has value for us today and that is something you can say of no other man, dead or alive. There is no easy middle ground to stroll upon. You either accept Jesus or reject him.

  Sholem Asch

  Jesus, Son, Men

  1944 Interview with Frank S. Mead in The Christian Herald. "The Controversial Sholem Asch: An Introduction to his Fiction". Book by Ben Siegel, p. 148, 1976.

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• God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.

  Watchman Nee

  Manifestation, Seeking, Display

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• Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

  Jerry Bridges

  Guilt, May, Lifetime

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• The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

  Martin Luther

  Christian Inspirational, Cradle

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• In Christ alone God’s rich provision of salvation for sinners is treasured up: by Christ alone God’s abundant mercies come down from heaven to earth. Christ’s blood alone can cleanse us; Christ’s righteousness alone can cleanse us; Christ’s merit alone can give us a title to heaven. Jews and Gentiles, learned and unlearned, kings and poor men--all alike must either be saved by the Lord Jesus, or lost forever.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Kings, Men

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• Man shall not live by bread alone.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Bible, Jesus, Food

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• The cross is the foundation of the Bible: If you have not yet found out that Christ crucified is the foundation of the whole volume, you have hitherto read your Bible to very little profit. Your religion is a heaven without a sun, an arch without a keystone, a compass without a needle, a clock without a spring or weights, a lamp without oil. It will not comfort you; it will not deliver your soul from hell.

  J. C. Ryle

  Spring, Oil, Heaven

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• God in his infinite mercy has devised a way by which justice can be satisfied, and yet mercy can be triumphant. Jesus Christ, the only begotten of the Father, took upon himself the form of man, and offered unto Divine Justice that which was accepted as an equivalent for the punishment due to all his people.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Father, Men

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• Christ's sacrifice stands in glorious proportions with the work to be done. Nothing else or less would suffice. It is a work supernatural, transacted in the plane of nature; and what but such a work could restore the broken order of the soul under evil?

  Horace Bushnell

  Sacrifice, Order, Evil

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 70), 1895.

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• Be obedient to the bishop and to one another, as Jesus Christ was in the flesh to the Father, and the apostles to Christ and to the Father and to the Spirit, so that there may be unity in flesh and in spirit.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Father, Catholic

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• In Jesus Christ, God took on a human face and became our friend and brother.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Brother, Faces

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• To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Determined, Sin, Mockery

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Collected Works Vol. 1”, p.184, Lulu.com

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• If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.

  J. C. Ryle

  Prayer, Church, Sin

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• I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hate, Teaching, Smugness

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• An unsurpassed master of the art of laying bare the inmost core of spiritual truth.

  Geza Vermes

  Spiritual, Jesus, Art

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• Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

  Mark Hopkins

  Jesus, Taken, Revolution

  Mark Hopkins (2009). “Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity”, p.373, Applewood Books

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• The Lord ate from a common bowl, and asked the disciples to sit on the grass. He washed their feet, with a towel wrapped around His waist - He, who is the Lord of the universe!

  Clement of Alexandria

  Jesus, Feet, Towels

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• The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Christian, Wise, Simple

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