Quotes About Christ

God had chosen certain individuals to receive salvation, and he sent Jesus Christ to die for them and to pay for their sins. He has appointed a time for each of these chosen ones to be summoned and converted.

we are indeed saved by believing a book, this book, for there is no difference between believing the book and believing the person. As long as we do not separate the revelation of Christ from the person of Christ, since these cannot really be separated, then we are indeed saved by the Bible, and in it we find eternal life.

Since they are dead, they are unable to cooperate with any assistance, or even request it. In fact, they would choose not to be rescued if left by themselves (Romans 8:7; Colossians 1:21). Against this, the Father has chosen some to be saved by Christ (2 Thessalonians 2:13; Ephesians 1:4-5) by dragging them out of the water (John 6:44, 65), purely by his own initiative (Romans 9:15).

if you attempt an investigation for truth that is independent from truth, then your investigation departs from truth at the very beginning, and there is no way that you will arrive at truth when you start out by running away from it. In bringing them to faith in Christ, God saves his elect from their initial intellectual waywardness.

Let us, therefore, first maintain our confession of faith. Let us pray, study, and build up one another through mutual instruction and encouragement, so that we may become convinced and established in the faith, and thus remain under the invincible promise of Christ.

We have orders to not only maintain the confession, but to proclaim it to every part of the world, and we have the promise that Christ will be with us as we do so (Matthew 28:18-20).

God has sovereignly regenerated and enlightened us, and by imparting to us the very mind of Christ, he has made us intellectually superior to all non-Christians. Therefore, "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.

the holy Scriptures…are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus" (2 Timothy 3:15).

Paul writes that the church is "built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone" (Ephesians 2:20).

Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

the ideal human government is not democracy, but divine dictatorship – that is, to have Jesus Christ as the king of all. Dictatorship is in principle the most efficient form of government, but its success depends on the worth, ability, and character of the dictator. Only Jesus Christ deserves this level of exaltation, and only he can wield such power justly and wisely.

However, even when we are unfaithful to his commands, Christ is faithful to his promise. He is still building his church, and he is still ensuring that the gates of hell will not overcome it.

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. I want - to be bound to Christ with unbreakable bonds and to feel these bonds. To be sorrowful yet always rejoicing. To live in and for Christ, to be one of the poor in His kingdom, steeped in the leaven, filled with His spirit, impelled by His Love, reposing in the Father with the repose of which I wrote to you in my last letter.

the justice of Christ breaks in and fragments the systems of the world, its philosophy, ecclesial structures legal rules–in short, the earthly economies and regimes.

Christ is everywhere, closer to everything created than these things are to themselves. God's embodiment through Christ encompasses the world.

By work alone men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnâni, Christ was a Bhakta, but the same goal was reached by both of them. The difficulty is here. Liberation means entire freedom — freedom from the bondage of good, as well as from the bondage of evil.

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

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

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.

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

You have accused me of upsetting order by my free drinks, and I have showed you that there is a more dreadful fermentation in the Sermon on the Mount than in my beer-barrels. Christ thought it in the irresponsibility of His omnipotence.