Quotes About Christ

Loyalty is what Christ asked of his disciples. Loyalty is what we have to show to each member of our family if our family is to become a more Christlike family.

That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Saviour, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.

If you feel stuck, bring your whole self to Christ, not just the problem, but you. Ask God to change your heart. Commit yourself to pray to that end. It's God's heart to give good gifts to His children.

Choose today to let the peace of Christ rule in your heart and have an attitude of gratitude toward the Lord. Even if you have things that are upsetting you, take a step of faith and begin to thank God for His goodness in your life. Thank Him for working behind the scenes on your behalf. As you do, you will walk forward into the life of blessing He has in store for you!

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.

But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.

If Jesus Christ, child of refugees, born poor in a stable, a colonized person, a hick from the backwaters, despised by his society's leaders and by the rulers of his leaders, a humble carpenter—if this Jesus Christ became universal—then so can I, motherfucker!

we are indeed saved by faith in Christ, but it is only through the Bible that we receive an infallible revelation from and about Christ.

The Christian faith is indestructible because our Father is greater than all. The church is invincible because Christ promises to build his church and that the forces of hell will not overcome it. Christianity is a permanent religion, and Christ's church a permanent institution.

In the light of Christ's promise, the forces of the devil and the unbelievers are pathetic and impotent. They are defenseless against us, for greater is he who is in us than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4).

our work is not a matter of survival, but a matter of responsibility imposed by God's command to maintain and proclaim the confession that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

in our spiritually dead condition, it is impossible to have the positive spiritual disposition required to have faith in Christ.

All that God does is intrinsically good and righteous, so it is also good and righteous for him to create the reprobates for the above purpose. Some would be horrified by this, because they are more concerned about man's dignity and comfort than God's purpose and glory, but those who have the mind of Christ would erupt in gratitude and reverence, and affirm that God is righteous, and that he does all things well.

It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed….Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:10, 12)

Christ, that is, the unchangeable excellence of God and his everlasting wisdom, which every rational soul does indeed consult.

to underestimate the wrath of God is to underestimate the blood of Christ that saves us from it.

We were at one time also "alienated from God and were enemies in [our] minds" (Colossians 1:21), but God has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ (v. 22). In contrast, non-Christians are "separate from Christ…without hope and without God in the world" (Ephesians 2:12).

Election in the context of receiving salvation refers to the individuals that God has chosen to save through Jesus Christ. Christ is the one chosen to save, and the elect are the ones chosen to be saved. The "in him" in verse 4 corresponds to the "through Christ Jesus" in verse 5 and the "in the One he loves" in verse 6, with all three expressions referring to him as the means of salvation, and not the object of salvation.

JUSTIFICATION is an act of God by which he imputes the righteousness of Christ to the elect person, and declares that this elect person is righteous on the basis of the righteousness of Christ.

Repent now, believe the gospel, and you will be saved. For if Christ is so firm with his church, what do you think he will do to you, if you fail to repent (1 Peter 4:17)?

We preach the gospel so that, in obedience to God's command and foreordination, those who are "appointed for eternal life" (Acts 13:48) will come to Christ, and not because they will be damned without us.

Any act of kindness from God is solely due to his mercy offered through the covenant we have with him in Christ, and not as an obligatory payment for our service.

Without God's work of regeneration in which he changes the disposition and volition of man, no one can or will truly assent to the biblical propositions about God and Christ.

For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thessalonians 5:9)[135]