Jesus Christ Quotes - Page 27

• As the blood of Christ is the fountain of all merit, so the Spirit of Christ is the fountain of all spiritual life; and until he quicken us and infuse the principle of the divine life into our souls, we can put forth no hand, or vital act of faith, to lay hold upon Jesus Christ.

  John Flavel

  Spiritual, Jesus, Blood

  John Flavel (1701). “The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel: ... to which are added alphabetical tables of the texts of scripture explained, and indexes of the principal matters contained in both volumes”, p.279

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• I would know any man as a Christian, would rejoice to know any man as a Christian, whom Jesus would recognize as a Christian; and Jesus Christ, I am sure, in these old days recognized His followers even if they came after Him with the blindest sight, with the most imperfect recognition and acknowledgment of what He was and of what He could do.

  Phillips Brooks

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• Do you see Jesus Christ as the son of God and believe in him as the route to salvation and eternal life?

  Howard Fineman

  Jesus, Believe, Son

  "Kerry – Bush & The Faith Factor" by Michael Cromartie, eppc.org.

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• Satan is the ruler of humanity (John 14:30). The result is that lost mankind hates and rejects Jesus Christ:... And, since unconverted mankind hates Christ, it also hates those who love Him and follow Him.

  R. L. Hymers, Jr.

  Jesus, Hate, Scary

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• We believe that the Greeks have been punished through [the Crusades] by the just judgement of God: these Greeks who have striven to rend the Seamless Robe of Jesus Christ ... Those who would not join Noah in his ark perished justly in the deluge; and these have justly suffered famine and hunger who would not receive as their shepherd the blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles.

  Pope Innocent III

  Jesus, Believe, Blessed

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• How much more forcefully can I say it? The time has come, and it is long overdue, when Christians and conservatives and all men and women who believe in the birthright of freedom must rise up and reclaim America for Jesus Christ.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  "Character & Destiny: A Nation In Search of Its Soul". Book by D. James Kennedy and Jim Nelson Black (p. 80), September 1994.

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• God has chosen, through his son Jesus Christ, this time, this place for all Christians - Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox - to save our country and save our courts.

  William H. Pryor, Jr.

  Christian, Country, Jesus

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• If we are to say that religion cannot be concerned with politics then we are really saying that there is a substantial part of human life in which God's writ does not run. If it is not God's, then whose is it? Who is in charge if not the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  Desmond Tutu

  Running, Jesus, Father

  Desmond Tutu, Mothobi Mutloatse, John Webster (1984). “Hope and suffering: sermons and speeches”, W.B. Eerdmans, 1984

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• I know that some will have hard thoughts of me, when they hear their Christ named beside my Buddha, yet I am sure that I am willing they should love their Christ more than my Buddha, for the love is the main thing, and I like him too.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Jesus, Love Is, Religion

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.47, Xist Publishing

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• When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay;
  Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way
  Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side,
  The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream.

  William Butler Yeats

  Jesus, Flower, Passion

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand,
  For I am drowning in a stormier sea
  Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

  Oscar Wilde

  Jesus, Prayer, Lakes

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• We're more popular than Jesus Christ now.

  John Lennon

  Music, Jesus, Art

  1966 In the Evening Standard.

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• True. There is
  a beautiful Jesus.
  He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef.
  How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in!
  How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes!
  But I can't. Need is not quite belief.

  Anne Sexton

  Beautiful, God, Jesus

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry
  and He said, Oh Lord,
  send down a short-order cook.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Jesus, Order

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze
  and so do you.
  Not out of disrespect.
  Out of pique.
  Out of a man-to-man thing.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Jesus, Kissing

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• Then God spoke to me and said:
  People say only good things about Christmas.
  If they want to say something bad,
  they whisper.

  Anne Sexton

  Christmas, God, Jesus

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When the cow gives blood
  and the Christ is born
  we must all eat sacrifices.
  We must all eat beautiful women.

  Anne Sexton

  Beautiful, Christmas, God

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To be justified means more than to be declared "not guilty." It actually means to be declared righteous before God. It means God has imputed or charged the guilt of our sin to His Son, Jesus Christ, and has imputed or credited Christ's righteousness to us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Jesus, Mean, Son

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “Transforming Grace”, p.39, NavPress

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• And I profess still, that whatsoever the church of England (the church, I say, not every doctor) shall forbid me to say in matterof faith, I shall abstain from saying it, excepting this point, that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died for my sins. As for other doctrines, I think it unlawful, if the church define them, for any member of the church to contradict them.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Jesus, Son, Thinking

  Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, Homer (1840). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”, p.367

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• We can receive Jesus Christ when we believe in His message and trust in Him alone to save us.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Believe, Messages

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• Get somebody else for Jesus Christ and you will get a new vision of life, a new vision of what it means.

  Billy Sunday

  Jesus, Mean, Vision

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• Those who truly believe on Jesus Christ are saved from all fear.

  R. A. Torrey

  Jesus, Believe, Christ

  R. A. Torrey (1991). “The Best of R. A. Torrey”

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• A name? Oh, Jesus Christ. Ah, God, I've been called by a million names all my life. I don't want a name. I'm better off with a grunt or a groan for a name.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Jesus, Self, Names

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• If there were two princes in Christendom who had good will and courage, it would be very easy to reconcile the religious difficulties; there is only one Jesus Christ and one faith, and all the rest is a dispute over trifles.

  Elizabeth I

  Religious, Jesus, Two

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• The Christos-image
  is most difficult to disentangle
  from its art-craft junk-shop
  paint-and-plaster medieval jumble
  of pain-worship and death-symbol.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Jesus, Art, Pain

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

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