Body Of Christ Quotes

• Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.

  Saint Augustine

  Hands, Holy Eucharist, Flesh

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• For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Iron, Differences

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963”, p.68, HarperCollins UK

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• Only you can be you. God designed each of us so there would be no duplication in the world. No one has the exact same mix of factors that make you unique. That means no one else on earth will ever be able to play the role God planned for you. If you don’t make your unique contribution to the Body of Christ, it won’t be made.

  Rick Warren

  Mean, Unique, Play

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• If you are worried about the people outside, the most unreasonable thing you can do is remain outside yourself. Christians are Christ's body...every addition to that body enables Him to do more. If you want to help those outside you must add your own little cell to the body of Christ who along can help them. Cutting off a man's fingers would be a odd way of getting him to do more work.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Cutting, Men

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• As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.

  Joseph Stowell

  Kindness, Differences, Appreciate

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• The only way the corporate Body of Christ will fulfill the mission Christ has given it is for individual Christians to have a vision for fulfilling that mission personally.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Vision, Body

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• The Holy Ghost does not come upon methods, but upon men. He does not anoint machinery, but men. He does not work through organizations, but through men. He does not dwell in buildings, but men. He indwells the Body of Christ, directs its activities, distributes its forces, empowers its members.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Men, Organization, Empowering

  Samuel Chadwick (2007). “The Way to Pentecost”, CLC Publications

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• We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can come man's way in this world.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Men, Ideas, Church

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• When it comes to my salvation, all I need is Jesus; after my salvation, everything is Jesus plus the church... When people preach that all you need is Jesus, they cut you and I off from one of the greatest sources of healing, which is the body of Christ. Dont go it alone - you wont make it.

  Josh McDowell

  Jesus, Healing, Cutting

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• When a person becomes a Christian, he doesn’t just join a local church because it’s a good habit for growing in spiritual maturity. He joins a local church because it’s the expression of what Christ has made him—a member of the body of Christ.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Spiritual, Maturity

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• The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom.

  David Platt

  Body, Kingdoms, Christ

  David Platt (2015). “Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age”, p.209, Tyndale House

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• Being disconnected from the local church, for whatever reason, is a dangerous way to live. Not only do these “ lone rangers” miss out on the blessings of functioning within the context of the body of Christ, but like lone sheep away from the safety of the flock and the watchful care of the shepherd, they are vulnerable to predators of every sort.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Blessing, Sheep, Safety

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Holiness: The Heart God Purifies”, p.128, Moody Publishers

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• The hardest part of being a Christian is surrendering and that is where the real struggle happens. Once we have overcome our own desire to be elevated, our own desire to be recognized, our own desire to be independent and all those things that we value very much because we are Americans and we are part of this American culture. Once we have overcome that struggle then God can use us as a part of His body to accomplish what the body of Christ was left here to accomplish.

  Rich Mullins

  Christian, Real, Struggle

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• In an attempt to hinder, if not altogether halt, the next move of God, Satan has sent forth an army of faultfinding demons against the church. The purpose of this assault is to entice the body of Christ away from the perfections of Jesus and onto the imperfections of one another.

  Francis Frangipane

  Jesus, Moving, Army

  Francis Frangipane (1991). “The House of the Lord: God's Plan to Liberate Your City from Darkness”, Charisma House

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• The Church is the Body of Christ, and the Spirit is the Spirit of Christ. He fills the Body, directs its movements, controls its members, inspires its wisdom, supplies it's strength. He guides into truth, sanctifies its agents, and empowers for witnessing. The Spirit has never abdicated His authority nor relegated His power.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Empowering, Inspire, Church

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• Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.

  Martin Luther

  Fear, Church, Body

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• Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgression. His death hath disarmed the law, his blood hath washed a believer's soul. This death is the destruction of our enemies, the spring of our happiness, and the eternal testimony of divine love.

  Stephen Charnock

  Happiness, Death, Christian

  "Christ Our Passover".

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• My dying planet needs to see what the body of Christ looks like.

  Jon Foreman

  Dying, Needs, Looks

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• This is the amazing story of God’s grace. God saves us by His grace and transforms us more and more into the likeness of His Son by His grace. In all our trials and afflictions, He sustains and strengthens us by His grace. He calls us by grace to perform our own unique function within the Body of Christ. Then, again by grace, He gives to each of us the spiritual gifts necessary to fulfill our calling. As we serve Him, He makes that service acceptable to Himself by grace, and then rewards us a hundredfold by grace.

  Jerry Bridges

  Spiritual, Son, Unique

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• The Church is the body of Christ fashioned by baptism & the Eucharist.

  Henri Nouwen

  Baptism, Church, Body

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• I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.

  Mother Teresa

  Broken, Touching, Suffering

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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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• ...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it but if you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Believe, Struggle, Suffering

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• Every sufferer who bears pain, or slander, or loss, or personal unkindness for Christ’s sake, is filling up that amount of suffering which is necessary to the bringing together of the whole body of Christ, and the upbuilding of His elect Church.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pain, Loss, Filling Up

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• The single most important hindrance to world evangelization right now is the lack of total involvement by the body of Christ.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Important, World, Body

  K. P. Yohannan (2014). “Revolution in World Missions: One Man's Journey to Change a Generation”, p.44, Gospel For Asia Books

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