Christ Quotes - Page 11

• Faith is not only commitment to the promises of Christ; it is also commitment to his demands.

  William Barclay

  Commitment, Promise, Demand

  "The Letters of James and Peter".

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• It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is Reality. If I have chosen to be a filmmaker as well as a writer it is because, rather than expressing reality through those symbols that are words, I have preferred the cinema as a means of expression - to express reality through reality.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Hero, Mean, Reality

  Pier Paolo Pasolini, Laura Betti (1989). “Pier Paolo Pasolini: a future life”

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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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• For me Christ was not to be bought for thirty pieces of silver but with my heart's blood. We buy not cheap in this market.

  Dorothy Day

  Heart, Blood, Pieces

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• The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of sermon that will make the devils in hell laugh, but make the angels of God weep.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Angel, Laughing

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• I never said the way of Christ is easy. Are you prepared to let go of everything He would not approve?

  E. Stanley Jones

  Letting Go, Way, Easy

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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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• The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West . . . But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace.

  Billy Graham

  Our World, White, Numbers

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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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• Christ came to bring healing to those who are spiritually sick-you say that you are perfectly well, so you must go your own way and Christ will go in another direction-towar ds sinners.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Healing, Sick, Way

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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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• Christ's boundless grace confronts our deep necessities. Christ's promised presence confronts our sad and gloomy loneliness. Jesus thus filled with grace so overflowing, with love so tender, with sympathy so exquisite, with power so illimitable, with resources so boundless, with a nature so changeless, stands before us and says to each trembling heart, 'Fear not!'

  Octavius Winslow

  Jesus, Loneliness, Heart

  Octavius Winslow (1860). “Divine Realities; or, spiritual reflections for the saint and sinner”, p.19

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• We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.

  Francis Asbury

  Religious, Jesus, Work

  Francis Asbury (1821). “The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church: From August 7, 1771, to December 7, 1815”, p.231

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• Your money, your singleness, marriage, talent
  and time, they were loaned to you to show the world that Christ is
  Divine

  LeCrae

  World, Talent, Divine

  Song: Don't Waste Your Life, Album: Rebel

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• The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Views, Superficial, Satisfied

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Mornings and Evenings with Spurgeon”, p.647, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.

  Martin Luther

  Comfort, Satan, Died

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• How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.

  John Calvin

  Jesus, Believe, World

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• Lent is a favorable time for letting Christ serve us so that we in turn may become more like Him.

  Pope Francis

  May, Turns

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• We cannot live, we cannot look at the truth about ourselves without letting ourselves be looked at and generated by Christ in daily Eucharistic Adoration.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Looks, Adoration, Eucharistic

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• What a mistake those who do not hope make! Judas made a huge blunder the day in which he sold Christ for 30 denarii, but he made an even bigger one when he thought that his sin was too great to be forgiven. No sin is too big: any wretchedness, however great, can always be enclosed in infinite mercy.

  Pope John Paul I

  Mistake, Sin, Infinite

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• Those who turn proud when their praise is sounded, who seek their own glory, not Christ's, or those who are moved by slanders and by infamy, had better leave the ministry of the Word.

  Martin Luther

  Ministry, Proud, Praise

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

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• Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Done, Firsts, Distribution

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 6: Sermons 286-347”, p.382, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.

  John Owen

  Reading, Looks, Benefits

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