Christ Quotes - Page 11

• Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Righteousness, Damn

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 7: Sermons 348-426”, p.389, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Learning about the intellectual basis for Christianity bolsters the faith of Christians-espe cially those who may be experiencing doubts-and prepares them to share Christ with others.

  Lee Strobel

  Christian, Intellectual, Doubt

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• There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.

  David Platt

  Depth, Our Relationship, Danger

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• Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.

  R. C. Sproul

  Fighting, Temptation, Preacher

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• There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Divorce, Sin

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• Are we capable of bringing the word of God into the environment in which we live? Do we know how to speak of Christ, of what he represents for us, in our families, among the people who form part of our daily lives? Faith is born from listening, and is strengthened by proclamation.

  Pope Francis

  People, Listening, Environment

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• Christ sent me to preach the gospel and he will look after the results.

  Mary Slessor

  Looks, Results

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• Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed and now they were beliefs I felt were myths.

  John Fante

  Sick, Soul, Faces

  John Fante (2014). “The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill”, p.520, Canongate Books

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• Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Self, Long

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Without Christ there would be no Christmas and without Christ there can be no fulness of JOY

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Joy, Would Be

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• The Law found more than it lost when Christ said, ‘Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven’ (Matthew 5:44-45). This most important commandment summarizes in a word the universal discipline of patience, since it does not allow us to do evil even to people who deserve it.

  Tertullian

  Father, Love You, Son

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• God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding man and even of turning his wrong ways into right ways...The feast of Christ the King is therefore not a feast of those who are subjugated, but a feast of those who know that they are in the hands of the one who writes straight on crooked lines.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Kings, Writing, Men

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• Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The sweet fragrance of Christ has shown through their lives.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Sweet, People, Joy

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• When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable thing. The baits of sin lose their attraction and disappear. Fill your affections with the cross of Christ and you will find no room for sin.

  John Owen

  Bait, World, Rooms

  John Owen, James M. Houston (2004). “Triumph Over Temptation: Pursuing a Life of Purity”, p.102, David C Cook

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• The gospel of Jesus Christ is the brightest light and the only hope for this darkened world.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Jesus, Light, World

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• Only Jesus Christ is uniquely qualified to provide that hope, that confidence, and that strength we need to overcome the world and rise above our human failings. To do so, we must place our faith in Him and live by His laws and teachings.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Teaching, Law

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• Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Jesus, Atonement, Sincere

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• Remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Remember, Asks

  Oswald Chambers (2006). “My Utmost Fhh Grad Updated/E”, Barbour Publishing

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• If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.

  David Platt

  Commitment, Church, Followers

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.171, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings

  George Whitefield

  Perfect, Suffering, Captains

  George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.45

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• Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.

  John Calvin

  Son, Anchors, Heaven

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• For God is not gracious and merciful to sinners to the end that they might not keep his Law, nor that they should remain as they were before they received grace and mercy; but he condones and forgives both sin and death for the sake of Christ, who has fulfilled the whole Law in order thereby to make the heart sweet and through the Holy Spirit to kindle and move the heart to begin to love from day to day more and more.

  Martin Luther

  Sweet, Moving, Heart

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• Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.

  Jerry Bridges

  Degrees, Smallest, Reliance

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• The Holy Spirit accompanies God's Word to bring revelation of Christ, resulting in transformation.

  Bob Hoskins

  Spirit, Transformation, Revelations

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• Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Light, Brave, Darkness

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