Christ Quotes - Page 13

• No matter what changes God has performed in you, never rely on them. Build only on a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and on the Spirit He gives.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Giving, Matter

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.30, Discovery House

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• With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Practice, Ideas, Christianity

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.17, SCM Press

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• Let us be faithful and care for our own part, which is to do and suffer for Him, and lay Christ's part on Himself, and leave it there; duties are ours, events are the Lord's.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Faithful, Suffering, Events

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.74

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• Jesus Christ is not a security from storms. He is the perfect security in storms

  Kathy Troccoli

  Jesus, Perfect, Storm

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• Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving, Want, Half Measures

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• A Christian is not someone who never goes wrong, but one who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin again, because the Christ-life is inside him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Life Is, Begin Again

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• The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar.

  F. F. Bruce

  Unbiased, Historian, Julius

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• The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.

  J. C. Ryle

  People, Wells, Bottom

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• Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.

  J. C. Ryle

  Selfishness, Want, Crosses

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• If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer. I must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me. I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. I must be holy for His sake. How can I live in sin when He has died to save me from it?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Evil, My Best Friend, Sake

  "Collected Works".

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• Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.

  J. C. Ryle

  Copies

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• It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Relatives And Friends, Impossible, Deceiving

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• I need Christ, not something that resembles Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Needs, Grief Observed

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• The only way the kingdom of God is going to be manifest in this world before Christ comes is if we manifest it by the way we live as citizens of heaven and subjects of the King.

  R. C. Sproul

  Kings, Heaven, Citizens

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• Christ is never fully valued, until sin is
  clearly seen.

  J. C. Ryle

  Sin

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• The heart that has really tasted the grace of Christ, will instinctively hate sin.

  J. C. Ryle

  Hate, Heart, Grace

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.359, Editora Dracaena

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• True Christian is not an angel; he is not a halfangelic being, in whom is no weakness, or blemish, or infirmity: he is nothing of the kind. He is nothing more than a sinner who has found out his sinfulness, and has learned the blessed secret of living by faith in Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Blessed, Secret

  "Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity".

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• A saved soul has many sorrows. They have their share of bereavements, deaths, disappointments , crosses. What shall enable a believer to bear all this? Nothing but the consolation there is in Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Disappointment, Soul, Bereavement

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• True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Believe, Communication

  J.C Ryle, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “PRACTICAL RELIGION”, Lulu.com

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• The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.

  J. C. Ryle

  Doctrine, World, Ministers

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• The love of our Lord Jesus Christ towards sinners is strikingly shown in His steady purpose of heart to die for them.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Heart, Purpose

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.350, Editora Dracaena

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• Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.

  J. C. Ryle

  Offensive

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.228, Editora Dracaena

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• When I am weak then am I strong, Grace is my shield and Christ my Song.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Song, Strong, Grace

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1866). “Morning by Morning: Or, Daily Readings for the Family Or the Closet”, p.309

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• Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing.

  C. S. Lewis

  Offers

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.127, HarperCollins UK

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• It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.

  J. C. Ryle

  Prayer, Successful, Communion

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Mark”, p.82, Editora Dracaena

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