Christ Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• 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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• Living life with a clear conscience is the fruit of a repentant heart and new life through Jesus Christ.

  Brian Houston

  Jesus, Live Life, Heart

  Twitter post from Feb 27, 2015

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• In Christian work our initiative and motivation are too often simply the result of realizing that there is work to be done and that we must do it. Yet that is never the attitude of a spiritually vigorous saint. His aim is to achieve the realization of Jesus Christ in every set of circumstances.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Jesus, Motivation

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.405, Discovery House

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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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• What if marriage is really about making us more like Christ, not so much about making us happy?

  Kirk Cameron

  What If, Ifs

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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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• If we are truly disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, we will reach out with love and understanding to all of our neighbors at all times.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Jesus, Understanding, Neighbor

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• The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Kingdoms, Personal Relationships

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Watches, Wrecks

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.187, Discovery House

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• It makes no difference whether they be Catholics, Orthodox, Copts or Protestants. They are Christians! Their blood is one and the same. Their blood confesses Christ.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Blood, Differences

  "Coptic Patriarch Calls 21 Beheaded Christians 'Martyrs for the Faith;' Pope Francis Says 'Their Blood Confesses Christ'" by Stoyan Zaimov, www.christianpost.com. February 16, 2015.

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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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• Through all of our various Christmas traditions, I hope that we are focused first upon the Lord Jesus Christ. Wise men still adore Him.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Wise, Jesus, Men

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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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• I would love to hear all types of Christian artists played all over the world. I'd love to hear good, positive mainstream music played all over the place. I'd love to be able to bring music together. But I have not deserted Christ. I have not deserted my faith.

  Stacie Orrico

  Christian, Artist, Together

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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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• The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Christian, Men, Mourning

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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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