Quotes About Christ

The Holy Spirit doesn't give us more love or more faithfulness or more joy. He gives us Christ, and as he does, joy and all the rest are produced within us as the fruit of that union (p. 73).

He objected to the barbarity of the Old Testament and questioned the authenticity of the New Testament. He said that "if Christ had meant to establish a new religion, he would have written it down himself.

Christ ransoms, Christ feeds, but, grandest truth of all, Christ frees—frees us from the fetters we have welded on our own wrists.

My faith in God rests on my faith in Christ as God manifest in the flesh -- not as God and man, but as God in man.

My faith in miracles rests also on my faith in Christ -- he himself a greater miracle by far than any attributed to him.

Christ is the manifestation of God, not of certain attributes of God or certain phases of his administration. There is no justice to be feared in God that was not manifested in Christ; there is no mercy to attract in Christ that is not eternally in God.

We must look for God in Christ not only by reading about Christ, but by endeavoring to be like him. It is only by participation in his life that we can come to an acquaintance with him.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? "Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. "For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God also puts His people in the middle of things for the same reason that He put the tree of temptation in the middle of the garden--so that our choice to follow Him would be a conscious, daily one. Every time we publicly choose to live for Christ, He is glorified.

Death was not God's choice; it was man's. Death is unnatural, a punishment for sin. But God countered man's choice with another perfect plan—He redeemed us in Christ so we could live forever with Him.

Life as a Christ follower will always be a learning process of depending less on our own strength and more on God's power.

When we know Christ, it should show in our overflow, regardless of our relative success or discouragement in the face of rejection.

The Devil wants me to fill my emptiness with an unhealthy dependence on the acceptance of others. Because then he can get me so focused on the shallow opinions of others I get completely distracted from deepening my relationship with Christ.

A Jesus girl who rises up and unexpectedly gives grace when she surely could have done otherwise reveals the power and the mystery of Christ at work — in her life and in the world.

When we have Christ, we are full—fully loved and accepted and empowered to say no.

Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. (COLOSSIANS 3:1 – 2)

You're giving yourself too much credit, the only reason you have any grace (to give or receive) is through Christ.

It is impossible to grasp the fullness of God without grasping the fullness of the love of Christ.

For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

I pray that you … grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ … that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. (EPHESIANS 3:17 – 19)

Everyone is in a process of spiritual formation. We are being shaped into either the wholeness of the image of Christ or a horribly destructive caricature of that image--destructive not only to ourselves but also to others, for we inflict our brokenness upon them . . . The direction of our spiritual growth infuses all we do with intimations of either Life or Death.

In this section we will develop a fourfold definition of spiritual formation as (1) a process (2) of being conformed (3) to the image of Christ (4) for the sake of others.

Spiritual formation is not an option! The inescapable conclusion is that life itself is a process of spiritual development. The only choice we have is whether that growth moves us toward wholeness in Christ or toward an increasingly dehumanized and destructive mode of being.

We should seek at all times to purify ourselves and to lead such worthy lives that the Light of Christ emanates from us in all that we say and do.