Christ Quotes - Page 18

• 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 Christ be anything, He must be everything.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Ifs

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “Daily Help Devotional”, p.80, Whitaker House

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• Child of God, you cost Christ too much for him to forget you.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Cost, Too Much

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 61: Sermons 3440-3492”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Get Christ and get all; miss Christ and miss all.

  Thomas Brooks

  Missing

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• We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.

  Beth Moore

  Storm, Want, Firsts

  Beth Moore (2013). “Whispers of Hope: 10 Weeks of Devotional Prayer”, p.157, B&H Publishing Group

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• Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Believe, Midnight, Daylight

  Samuel Rutherford (1848). “Letters of ... Samuel Rutherford, whith biogr. notices of his correspondents, by J. Anderson, and a sketch of his life, &c., by A.A. Bonar”, p.543

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• More evangelicals today will visit abortion mills as clients than as ambassadors of Jesus Christ.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Jesus, Abortion, Ambassadors

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• We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.

  Ann Voskamp

  Jesus, Doors, Sanctuary

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• The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the façade of conventional gestures and attitudes which he presents to the world, and to bring out his inner spiritual freedom, his inmost truth, which is what we call the likeness of Christ in his soul.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Attitude, Men

  Thomas Merton (1960). “Spiritual Direction and Meditation”, p.16, Liturgical Press

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• It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

  Simone Weil

  Imagine, Easier, Creator

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.89, Psychology Press

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• Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Lying, Misunderstood

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.18, Discovery House

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• Christ, invisible to the bodily eye, manifests Himself on earth clearly through His Church ... The Church is the Body of Christ both because its parts are united to Christ through His divine mysteries and because through her Christ works in the world.

  John of Shanghai and San Francisco

  Love, Truth, Eye

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• It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.

  Luigi Orione

  Jesus, Wish To Die, Tree

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• Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Christian, Fall, Men

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• We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it.

  Clayton Christensen

  Christian, Views, Care

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• My poor soul! Sigh, pray and strive to take upon you the blessed yoke of Christ, and you will live on earth in a heavenly manner. Lord, grant that I may carry the light and goodly yoke, and I shall be always at rest, peaceful, glad and joyous; and I shall taste on earth of crumbs which fall from the celestial feast, like a dog that feeds upon the crumbs which fall from the master's table.

  Tikhon of Zadonsk

  Christian, Dog, Blessed

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• To love Christ -means not to be a hireling, not to look upon a noble life as an enterprise or trade, but to be a true benefactor and to do everything only for the sake of love for God.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Mean, Looks

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• Now there have been delivered to us in the Gospel three Persons and names through whom the generation or birth of believers takes place, and he who is begotten by this Trinity is equally begotten of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost —for thus does the Gospel speak of the Spirit, that “that which is born of Spirit is spirit,” and it is “in Christ “that Paul begets, and the Father is the “Father of all”.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Christian, Father, Son

  "The Great Catechism".

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• Christ sits in the body at the right hand of God the Father, but we do not hold that the right hand of the Father is actual place. For how could He that is uncircumscribed have a right hand limited by place? But we understand the right hand of the Father to be the glory and honor of the Godhead in which the Son of God, Who existed as God before the ages, and is of like essence to the Father, and in the end became flesh, has a seat in the body, His flesh sharing in the glory. For He along with His flesh is adored with one adoration by all creation.

  John of Damascus

  Christian, Father, Son

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• Being come together in the same place, let there be one prayer, one supplication, one mind, one hope, in love and in joy undefiled. There is one Jesus Christ, than Whom nothing is more excellent. Therefore all should run together as into one temple of God, as to one altar, as to one Jesus Christ, who came forth from the Father, and is with and has gone to one.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Christian, Running, Jesus

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• Let no man's place, or dignity, or riches, puff him up; and let no man's low condition or poverty abase him. For the chief points are faith towards God, hope towards Christ, the enjoyment of those good things for which we look, and love towards God and our neighbor.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Christian, Men, And Love

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• Can one, seeing the sun with one's sensuous eyes, not rejoice? But how much more joyful it is when the mind sees with its inner eye the Sun of justice, Christ! Then in truth one rejoices with angelic joy; of this the Apostle too said: 'Our conversation is in heaven' (Phil. 3:20).

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Christian, Eye, Justice

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• When we become incorruptible and immortal, and attain to the blessed state of conformity with Christ, we will be ever with the Lord (as Scripture says), gaining fulfillment in the purest contemplations of His visible theophany which will illuminate us with its most brilliant rays, just as it illuminated the disciples at the time of the most divine Transfiguration.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Blessed, Light

  "The Triads".

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• ...it is up to us to add labors to labors in order to go from strength to strength (Ps. 83:7), and to come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (Eph. 4:13)?

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Christian, Order, Add

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• ... the Apostle Peter declared that the Church was built by the Holy Spirit. For you read that he said: 'God, Who knows the hearts of men, bore witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as was given to us; and He made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith' (Acts 15:8-9). In which is to be considered, that as Christ is the Cornerstone, Who joined together both peoples into one, so, too, the Holy Spirit made no distinction between the hearts of each people, but united them.

  Ambrose

  Christian, Heart, Men

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