Quotes About Christ

Faith is a separation from the law ("I died to the law") and the self ("It is no longer I who live"), and an identification with the cross of Christ ("I have been crucified").

Nearly one-third of Acts recounts Paul on trial or in prison, and in five of the thirteen letters he is identified as a prisoner of, or in, Christ (never mentioning Roman authorities!):

Non-retaliation, for Paul, is not an option for peacemakers in Christ; rather, it is the way of Christ.

Specifically, the believer's faith is cruciform faith because Christ's faith(fulness) was expressed on the cross.

If Christians were afraid of worldliness as much as they are of holiness, they would set the world on fire for Christ. ANONYMOUS

I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power (1 Corinthians 2:1-5).

Expressed in theological terms, "In justification our own works have no place at all, and simple faith in Christ is the one thing needful. In sanctification our own works are of vast importance and God bids us fight, and watch, and pray, and strive, and take pains, and labour."34

Martin] Luther was a kind, warm-hearted man. But he attacked anyone he felt was an enemy of Christ. The worst side of him was expressed in his attacks on Jews. He also attacked Turks, who were Muslims, Catholic followers of the Pope, and even other groups of Protestants. These attacks became more and more violent as he grew older.

Encourage him to take his confusion directly to Christ himself. Every mistake will make him stronger. A life of prayer will keep him focused during this time of craziness.

True Christians are those who carry out Christ's doctrine in their lives.

Is the church really demonstrating the new life in Christ if there is no discipline, if there is no fencing in of the Lord's table, no demand for purity of life?

For when you are subject to the bishop as to Jesus Christ, it is evident to me that you are living not in accordance with human standards but in accordance with Jesus Christ, who died for us in order that by believing in his death you might escape death.

Joining the corporate worship of the body of Christ requires that we allow something else—the good of the body—to supercede our personal preferences.

To be a genuine Christian, you must believe the claims of Christ.

The cross of Christ gave power to the powerless. It gave strength to the weak. It brought salvation to repentant sinners. It brought hope to the hopeless. It gave peace to troubled hearts. What was true then it is still true today.

The incarnation of Christ is a major stumbling block for Muslims.

You are all Sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Galatians 3:26—29 and read: You are all Sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

When two people who are already committed to Christ come together, they complement each other. Those two whole people don't have to beat around the bush when it comes to what they will or will not accept in a relationship.

Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ.

People who aren't full of the love of Christ love strife and salacious news;

those who belong to Christ will always belong to Him,

Neither Buddha built a Buddhist temple nor did Christ build a Catholic church, but these humans in their name have left the spirituality seekers in the lurch. No religious organizations have ever delivered God to humans, yes an idea of God may have been made available. The divinity has to be self realized, stop searching in temples, look within and get MickeyMized.

I remember one professor refusing to speak to me for several months after I published a column called 'The Campus Crusade Against Christ'.