John Milton Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• The Saviour who flitted before the patriarchs through the fog of the old dispensation, and who spake in time past to the fathers by the prophets, articulate but unseen, is the same Saviour who, on the open heights of the Gospel, and in the abundant daylight of this New Testament, speaks to us. Still all along it is the same Jesus, and that Bible is from beginning to end all of it, the word of Christ.

  John Milton

  Bible, Jesus, Father

• On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.

  John Milton

  Morning, Silly, Sheep

  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 8

• Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?

  John Milton

  Pain, Heaven, Suffering

• At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.

  John Milton

  Stars, Heaven, Unseen

  John Milton, Matthew S. Stallard (2011). “Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition”, p.471, Mercer University Press

• We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.

  John Milton

  Temples, Christ, Force

  John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.142

• ...it ought not to appear wonderful if many, both Jews and others, who lived before Christ, and many also who have lived since his time, but to whom he has never been revealed, should be saved by faith in God alone: still however, through the sole merits of Christ, inasmuch as he was given and slain from the beginning of the world, even for those to whom he was not known, provided they believed in God the Father.

  John Milton

  Father, World, Merit

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