Quotes About Christ

As you preach, stay in the text, give honor to Christ and He will use you

I envy Christ, he had a disease named after him

rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you" (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18).

Christianity stands or falls on this tenet of the faith. If Christ is risen, he is all he said he was—the Messiah, the Son of God, the eternal king. If he isn't risen, he's dead—and irrelevant. Either way, we don't need more signs. We need to choose to believe what the evidence clearly shows.

Paul's claim to apostleship was that he had seen the risen Christ (1 Cor. 9:1). His calling had come directly from Christ, not from men nor through man (Gal. 1:1). He was commissioned as an ambassador of Christ (2 Cor. 5:20).

Paul also reminds the Roman believers that "we have peace through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom. 5:1). Foerster helpfully writes, "The basic feature of the Greek concept of 'eirene' is that the word does not primarily denote a relationship between several people, or an attitude, but a state, i.e., 'time of peace' or 'state of peace' originally conceived of purely as an interlude in the everlasting state of war.

It is right and proper that Christian men should rejoice in whatever manner they feel is compatible with their experience of Christ and the wishes of the Christian community to which they belong.

We can agree with what the gospel says about our sinfulness without becoming overwhelmed by guilt and shame. Further, we do not have to prove that we are victims rather than victimizers out of a desperate effort to persuade ourselves that we are righteous. We have Christ's righteousness already. We can rest in this.

Our priorities are misplaced when we are giving our greatest attention to temporary things of this world, rather than to Christ and pleasing Him.

I really like 'Passion of the Christ.' I like that movie. I also like 'We Were Soldiers,' and 'Braveheart.' And 'Napoleon Dynamite' - that movie was funny.

Those who embrace belief in Christ Jesus are bound together in Him, in a real yet incomplete way, in his Body, the Church. Faith is never a solitary activity, nor can it be simply private. Faith in Christ always draws us into a community and has a public dimension.

My Strength, My Portion, My Life is found in the overwhelming love of God by, in, and through Christ Jesus!

Where ever the spirit of Christ is known, there is much of good will, of mutual respect, of love and appreciation and kindness.

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

But God demonstrates His own love towards us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8

God's Love for you through Christ Jesus is more than a Valentine's card or gift.

Living toward a world in which these identities no longer divide, but living in a world fundamentally structured by them, Paul takes up and lays down various identities for the sake of the gospel. Though free, he has made himself a slave. For the sake of the gospel, he lives sometimes as one under the Jewish law, other times as one free from it—all while recognizing the truth of his situation as one no longer under "the law" but nevertheless under "Christ's law.

Karl Barth imagined the Christian theologian in the role of John the Baptist in the painting of Matthias Grünewald: he is standing to the side of the cross, holding the open Hebrew Scriptures in one hand and pointing with a finger of the other to the crucified Christ.67 A theologian ought to draw attention to the way of life and to the one who originally embodied it, not to the intellectual prowess, fertile imagination, or dazzling rhetoric of the theologian.

I will die for my God. I will die for my faith. It's the least I can do for Christ dying for me.

As Christians, we should all have the same ultimate goal concerning our attitudes and behavior: "Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ" (Phil. 1:27).

A follower of the teachings of Christ is a Christian, not a person who attends a specific Organized Church.

False humility and morbid introspection are, in fact, the opposite of brokenness, as they reveal a preoccupation with self, rather than Christ.

The sum and substance of the teachings and the achievements of Christ, which may have been interpreted as miracles, were nothing more nor less than FAITH. If there are any such phenomena as miracles they are produced only through the state of mind known as FAITH! Some teachers of religion, and many who call themselves Christians, neither understand nor practice FAITH.

También nosotros somos llamados a ello, a través de aquel martirio interior que es la «compunción» - como la llamaba la tradición ascética y mística-, es decir, el corazón que se deja traspasar por el pecado de la humanidad, porque «el Amor no es amado», porque «Dios no es conocido», porque «Cristo es ofendido».