Quotes About Christ

Good works" are those works that have their origin in Jesus Christ--whose activity is released through your body, presented to Him as a living sacrifice by a faith that expresses total dependence, as opposed to the Adamic independence (Rom. 12:1, 2).

Unser Gebet ist vermitteltes Gebet, vermittelt durch Christus, dem Mittler. Dass wir im Gebet zu Gott kommen können, ist keine religiöse Selbstverständlichkeit, sondern ist ermöglicht allein durch Christus. Kein Gebet kann den Weg zu Gott finden, das nicht der Fürsprecher Jesus Christus aufnimmt und für uns betet, das nicht im Namen Jesu Christi gebetet ist.

Der Christ lebt ganz von der Wahrheit des Wortes Gottes in Jesus Christus.

Nicht ein Gesetz, sondern der lebendige Gott und der lebendige Mensch, wie er mir in Jesus Christus begegnet, ist Ursprung und Ziel meines Gewissens.

Wie überwinden wir das Böse? Indem wir es vergeben ohne Ende. Wie geschieht das? Indem wir den Feind sehen als den, der er in Wahrheit ist, als den, für den Christus starb, den Christus liebt.

Christsein Christsein heißt nicht in einer bestimmten Weise religiös sein, auf Grund irgendeiner Methodik etwas aus sich machen (einen Sünder, Büßer oder einen Heiligen), sondern es heißt Menschsein, nicht einen Menschentypus, sondern den Menschen schafft Christus in uns.

Was geistliche Liebe zum Andern heißt, weiß ich nicht schon im voraus aus dem allgemeinen Begriff von Liebe, der aus meinem seelischen Verlangen erwachsen ist; was Liebe ist, wird mir allein Christus in seinem Wort sagen.

Ohne Christus ist Unfriede zwischen Gott und den Menschen und zwischen Mensch und Mensch. Christus ist der Mittler geworden und hat Frieden gemacht mit Gott und unter den Menschen.

Wenn Gott in Jesus Christus Raum in der Welt beansprucht, – und sei es nur in einem Stalle, weil »sonst kein Raum in der Herberge« war – so fasst er in diesem engen Raum zugleich die ganze Wirklichkeit der Welt zusammen und offenbart ihren letzten Grund.

Christ died to free us from the burden of our sin, but he never, so far as [Sister Philomena:] could see, lifted a finger to free us from our stupidity

Dear Heart, press on; let not Husband, let not anything cool thy affections after Christ. I hope he will be an occasion to inflame them. That which is best worthy of love in thy Husband is that of the image of Christ he bears. Look on that, and love it best, and all the rest for that. I pray for thee and him; do so for me.

If therefore the Father is the God of Christ and the same one is our God, and if there is no God but one, there can be no God beside the Father.

Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.

a sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification

By beholding the glory of Christ by faith we shall find rest to our souls. Our minds are apt to be filled with troubles, fears, cares, dangers, distresses, ungoverned passion and lusts. By these our thoughts are filled with chaos, darkness and confusion. But where the soul is fixed on the glory of Christ then the mind finds rest and peace for to be spiritually minded is peace (Rom. 8:6).

I cannot conceive an intention in God that Christ should satisfy his justice for the sin of them that were in hell some thousands of years before, and yet be still resolved to continue their punishment on them to all eternity.

Not to see the wisdom of God, and the power of God, and consequently all the other holy properties of his nature, in Christ, is to be an unbeliever.

The death of Christ is their meritorious cause; the Spirit of God and his effectual grace their efficient, working instrumentally with power by the word and ordinances.

A believer] is oftentimes at the very brink, at the very door of some folly or iniquity, when God puts in by the efficacy of actually assisting grace, and recovers them to an obediential frame of heart again. And this is a peculiar work of Christ, wherein he manifests and exerts his faithfulness toward his own: 'He is able to succor them that are tempted' (Heb. 2:18)....Here lies a great part of the care and faithfulness of Christ toward his poor saints.

Let a soul exercise itself to a communion with Christ in the good things of the gospel—pardon of sin, fruits of holiness, hope of glory, peace with God, joy in the Holy Ghost, dominion over sin—and he shall have a mighty preservative against all temptations.

The real view that we may have of Christ and His glory in this world comes through faith in the divine revelation of Scripture.

keep the heart full of a sense of the love of God in Christ. This is the greatest preservative against the power of temptation in the world. Joseph

testify by what means he would subdue the souls and consciences of men unto the obedience of Christ and the gospel, and by what means he would maintain his kingdom in the world. Now, this was not by force and might, by external power or armies, but by the preaching of the word, whereof the tongue is the only instrument. And the outward sign of this gift, in tongues of fire, evidenced the light and efficacy wherewith the Holy Ghost designed to accompany the dispensation of the gospel.

Some men speak much of the imitation of Christ, and following of his example; and it were well if we could see more of it really in effect. But no man shall ever become "like unto him" by bare imitation of his actions, without that view or intuition of his glory which alone is accompanied with a transforming power to change them into the same image.