Christ Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “Daily Help Devotional”, p.11, Whitaker House

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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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• The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Delight, Masters

  "Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots".

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• We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.

  J. C. Ryle

  Giving, Honor, Too Much

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• Do we profess to love Christ? Then let us show it by our lives.

  J. C. Ryle

  Shows, Our Lives

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.262, Editora Dracaena

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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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• 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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• 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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• Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Block, Causes, Professors

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 38”, p.175, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Temptation, Sometimes, Deals

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.1679, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Looks, World, Knows

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• Often doubts will prevail. What a mercy it is that it is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you! What a sweet fact that it is not how you grasp His hand, but His grasp of yours that saves you.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sweet, Hands, Doubt

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon “Spurgeon's Sermons on the Cross of Christ”, Kregel Academic

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• Reformed theology does NOT teach that God brings the ELECT kicking and screaming, against their will, into His kingdom. It teaches that God so-works in the hearts of the Elect as to make them willing and pleased to come to Christ. They come to Christ because they want to. They want to because God has created in their hearts a desire for Christ.

  R. C. Sproul

  Heart, Desire, Doe

  R. C. Sproul (2005). “What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics”, p.159, Baker Books

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• Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

  H. G. Wells

  Teacher, Writing, Unique

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• A godly man often grows best when his worldly circumstances decay. He who follows Christ for his bag is a Judas; they who follow for loaves and fishes are children of the devil; but they who attend Him out of love to Himself are His own beloved ones. Lord, let me find my life in Thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Godly, Men

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.362, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Men, Flesh

  Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

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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....Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked- the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you myself: my own will shall become yours.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Self, Hands

  C. S. Lewis (1998). “C. S. Lewis on Joy”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• Only a relationship with Christ can satisfy our hearts. Without Him we have nothing. With Him we have all things to enjoy.

  David Jeremiah

  Heart, Enjoy, All Things

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• Because of Jesus Christ the world has changed, the divine Atonement has been made, the price of sin has been paid, and the fearful spectacle of death yields to the light of truth and the assurance of resurrection. Though the years roll by, His birth, His ministry, His legacy continue to guide the destiny of all who follow Him as He so invitingly urged.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Destiny, Yield

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• The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Fresh Start, Belief

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.57, HarperCollins UK

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• Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.

  J. C. Ryle

  Mind, Church, Principles

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.56, Editora Dracaena

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• If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.

  J. C. Ryle

  Speak, Ashamed, Witness

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.326, Letcetera Publishing

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• It is better for me to die in behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Earth, Reign

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