Christ Quotes - Page 10

• Christ sent me to preach the gospel and he will look after the results.

  Mary Slessor

  Looks, Results

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• God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding man and even of turning his wrong ways into right ways...The feast of Christ the King is therefore not a feast of those who are subjugated, but a feast of those who know that they are in the hands of the one who writes straight on crooked lines.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Kings, Writing, Men

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• When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable thing. The baits of sin lose their attraction and disappear. Fill your affections with the cross of Christ and you will find no room for sin.

  John Owen

  Bait, World, Rooms

  John Owen, James M. Houston (2004). “Triumph Over Temptation: Pursuing a Life of Purity”, p.102, David C Cook

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• The gospel of Jesus Christ is the brightest light and the only hope for this darkened world.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Jesus, Light, World

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• Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Jesus, Atonement, Sincere

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

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Remember, Asks

  Oswald Chambers (2006). “My Utmost Fhh Grad Updated/E”, Barbour Publishing

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• Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings

  George Whitefield

  Perfect, Suffering, Captains

  George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.45

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• Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.

  John Calvin

  Son, Anchors, Heaven

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• The Holy Spirit accompanies God's Word to bring revelation of Christ, resulting in transformation.

  Bob Hoskins

  Spirit, Transformation, Revelations

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• Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Light, Brave, Darkness

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• It is a fact that the Lord Jesus has already died for you. It is also a fact that you have already died with the Lord Jesus. If you do not believe in your death with Christ, you will not be able to receive the effectiveness of death with Him - freedom from sin.

  Watchman Nee

  Jesus, Believe, Effectiveness

  Watchman Nee (1991). “The Word of the Cross”, p.9, Living Stream Ministry

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• To see the Law by Christ fulfilled,
  And hear His pardoning voice
  Changes a slave into a child,
  And duty into choice.

  William Cowper

  Children, Law, Voice

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.40

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• We are not saved in order to be a blessing to other people--you will be that inevitably--but primarily we are saved in order to be conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ, God's Son.

  Alan Redpath

  Jesus, Son, Blessing

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• Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Spiritual, Self

  Dallas Willard (2014). “Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ”, p.16, Tyndale House

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• The price of our non-discipleshi p is high for those without Christ.

  David Platt

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• If your identity is found in Christ, then it matters less and less what people think of you.

  Leonard Sweet

  Jesus, Thinking, People

  Leonard Sweet (2014). “The Well-Played Life: Why Pleasing God Doesn't Have to Be Such Hard Work”, p.116, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and his will first in everything you do.

  Billy Graham

  Goal, World, Firsts

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• The world takes its notions of God from the people who say that they belong to God's family. They read us a great deal more than they read the Bible. They see us; they only hear about Jesus Christ.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Jesus, People, World

  Alexander Maclaren (1910). “The Epistles General of I and II Peter and I John”

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• Our hope will never be found in the efforts of man, but in Jesus Christ alone.

  James Robison

  Jesus, Men, Effort

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• No time in history has the Church of Jesus Christ gone down!

  Loren Cunningham

  Jesus, Church, Gone

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• Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Jesus, Knows, Our Lives

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.177, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Be a follower of JESUS CHRIST--I am not seeking followers of my own. Don't be a follower of a MAN--but of CHRIST!

  Herbert W. Armstrong

  Jesus, Men, Followers

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• If I had a brother who had been murdered, what would you think of me if I...daily consorted with the assassin who drove the dagger into my brother's heart; surely I too must be an accomplice in the crime. Sin murdered Christ; will you be a friend to it? Sin pierced the heart of the Incarnate God; can you love it?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Brother, Heart, Thinking

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• To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.

  John Calvin

  Mean, Insanity

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• If Jesus Christ is the head of the church and hence the source and goal of its entire life, true growth is only possible in obedience to Him. Conversely, if the church becomes detached from Jesus Christ and His Word, it cannot grow however active and successful it may seem to be.

  Os Guinness

  Jesus, Successful, Goal

  Os Guinness (1993). “Dining with the Devil: The Megachurch Movement Flirts with Modernity”, p.39, Baker Books

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