Quotes About Christ

The coyotes sounded like hurt dogs. They agitated plainly for Christ's return. May they not be heard.

Galatians 3:13-14 shows us probably the most neglected aspect of the exchange:   Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

In every case, the road into unity is not the road of doctrinal disputation and discussion; it is the acknowledging of the Lord Jesus Christ in His glory, in His authority, in His headship and in every aspect of His ministry. As we acknowledge Christ in all that He is to the Church, we are brought into the unity of the faith.

If you are a citizen of the kingdom of God through faith in Christ, you are automatically at war with the kingdom of Satan.

With that height, plus a face of an ugliness so transcendant as to be grotesquely beautiful, it was obvious why she had embraced a religious life--Christ was the only man from whom she might expect embrace in return.

God, don't laugh! Jamie said, alarmed. I didna mean to make ye laugh! Christ, Jenny will kill me if ye cough up a lung and die out here!

Oh, yes," I said. "My favorite was one I picked up from a Yank. Man named Williamson, from New York, I believe. He said it every time I changed his dressing." "What was it?" " 'Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ,' " I said, and dropped the sugar

The dog would run a few steps toward the house, circle once or twice as though unable to decide what to do next, then run back into the wood, turn, and run again toward the house, all the while whining with agitation, tail low and wavering. "Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ," I said. "Bloody Timmy's in the well!" I

We believe the light of Christ is present in all men—though in some cases, perceiving it is somewhat difficult

Oh, yes," I said. "My favorite was one I picked up from a Yank. Man named Williamson, from New York, I believe. He said it every time I changed his dressing." "What was it?" " 'Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ,' " I said, and dropped the sugar lump neatly into Frank's coffee.

But to return to thy question, we consider our life here on earth to be a sacrament, lived in the light of Christ. There may be an afterlife, but as no one has come back to say so, it's a matter of speculation, left to each person individually.

The shade of death lies upon thy face, beloved, But the Jesus of grace has His hand round about thee; In nearness to the Trinity farewell to thy pains, Christ stands before thee and peace is in His mind.

It's my job to continue on this journey with the goal of becoming the best me I can and to embody the love Christ has for me, for I answer to Him and Him alone.

Jesus was common Jew of his own age with human parents. He was his own male Christ.

As Rahner puts it in another place, the resurrection is "the beginning of the transformation of the world as an ontologically interconnected occurrence."34 The final destiny of the world is not only promised, but already begun. The risen Christ is the "pledge and beginning of the perfect fulfillment of the world." He is the "representative of the new cosmos."35

Thus, the direction of evolution is toward the maximization of goodness, especially if we maintain that the incarnation is the goal of evolution. If Jesus Christ is truly creator (as divine Word) and redeemer (as Word Incarnate) then what is created out of love is ultimately redeemed by love. The meaning of Christ is summed up in creation's potential for self transcendent love.

Christ is not only the name of an historical personage but a reality in our own lives."32 He uses the term "christophany" to indicate that each person bears the mystery of Christ within.

The cross and resurrection won the victory over evil, but it is the task of the Spirit, and those led by the Spirit, to implement that victory in and for the whole world. The victory is found not in the life of Jesus alone but in his death and resurrection. It is in the resurrection that the power of Jesus as the Christ is experienced.

Describing Francis as the truly humble person, Bonaventure writes: "As Christ's disciple he strove to regard himself as worthless in his own eyes and those of others. He used to make this statement frequently: 'What a person is before God, that he is and no more.'"34

Christ is both the One and the Many. William Thompson states that Merton's view of the transcultural Christ means the emergence of "a person of such inner calm and personal and cultural detachment that she is capable of recognizing and perspectivizing the genuine values present in every person and every culture.

As far as theology is concerned, Christian understanding of the meaning of God, Christ, redemption, morality, and human existence is still weighed down by both prescientific and early modern cosmological assumptions.

As Francis deepened his relationship with Christ, the other became less outside Francis as object and more related to him as brother.

The Word of God and the grace of Christ in the promises are our daily support, and the constant nourishment of our souls.

The crucified Christ has become a stranger to the civil religion of the First World and to that world's Christianity.