Quotes from W. Ian Thomas

The Christian life is the life of the Lord Jesus Christ lived two thousand years ago, lived now by Him in you!

Man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to His humanity.

Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing- if it is only yours it won't wake the dead, it will simply disturb the neighbours.

All of Christ in all of you. You can never have more. You need never have less.

Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce Himself in you. It is not self-righteousness but Christ-righteousness, the righteousness that is by faith—a faith that by renewed dependence upon God releases His divine action to restore the marred image of the invisible God.

o be entirely honest, I know of nothing quite so boring as Christianity without Christ.

True repentance says, "I cannot," and true faith adds, "But God, You can!

He had to be what He was (perfect) to do what He did (redeem). Only by virtue of His own sinlessness could Christ die vicariously for those whose sin His life had condemned morally. God has done what the law could not do! He

He had to do what He did (redeem) that you might have what He is (life). Here is the "much more" of your salvation: Christ in the present tense! Not what He was—that would condemn you. And not just what He will be—that would only tantalize you. But He gives you all the overwhelming adequacy of all that He is right now for every step of the way and for every bend in the road.

Normality for a human being is when God can be seen by anything and everything which that person does and says and is.

Christ died for us so that He, risen and alive, might now come and dwell within us, so that we might no longer be egocentric, self-oriented, living only for our own interests: "He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again" (2 Corinthians 5: 15). Never be sorry for your self. Just be sorry for your sin! All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. ROMANS 3: 23