Quotes About Christ

The central tragedy of the sexual abuse scandal is that those who were ordained to act in the very person of Christ became, in the most dramatic way, obstacles to Christ.

Go practise if you please With men and women: leave a child alone For Christ's particular love's sake!

'Twas a thief said the last kind word to Christ:Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.

Have I told you about Christ? Ghost-born-man-walking-on-water-telling-stories-dead-on-tree.

the spirit of Christ is the embodiment of God in activity or the movement of God.

Christ,Syn, said another male.You are out of your fucking mind. That's right,Frosty; Synjon said against Petra's ear.Mad as a hatter.

an auction where most of the bidders wouldn't pay thirty-five cents to see Christ ride a bicycle.

Is it not a sad thing that after all Christ's love to us, we should repay it with lukewarm love to Him?

The most excellent study of expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.

The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.

Our faith in Christ, who became poor, and was always close to the poor and the outcast, is the basis of our concern for the integral development of society's most neglected members.

The first time [Christ] came to slay sin in men. The second time He will come to slay men in sin.

There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws as fixed as the decrees of the Medes and Persians. But through those statutes you reach the songs, drudgery leads to delight. The law of Christ brings the liberty of Christ. Keep His statutes, and they become songs. The other side of commandment is conquest. What seems restraint to the outsider means release to you.

The location of the servant is precisely his service. And the Lord, who is everywhere, is for the servant at the place where he will have him. In the sphere of Christ, which is an infinite sphere, a particular path of the imitation of Christ is prescribed by the will of the Lord for each individual. This imitation can extend to every area that the Lord assigns to a human being so that he may walk there.

Also, like Bush, Bauer is open to a little good-natured ribbing. Even about his religion. According to Prophecy, at the moment of the Rapture everyone who has taken Christ as his savior will immediately ascend to heaven. So if you're in an airplane, and your pilot has accepted Christ, you're in trouble.

Jesus never asked us to go on the cross with him and he did not die for your sins. That premise is faulty because Christ is deathless and you have no sins. Instead, he lives for your innocence. He is the model of a man who recognized his innate divinity, the same godliness you own. He does not want you to emulate his crucifixion. He wants you to magnify his resurrection. You don't need to experience crucifixion to gain resurrection. There are easier ways to get to heaven.

The first apostles of Christ were in the eyes of the world "unlearned and ignorant" men: it was not until the Church had endured a persecution and had grown largely in numbers that Christ called a learned man to be His apostle.31

It was C. S. Lewis who observed that there exists in every church something that sooner or later works against the very purpose for which it came into existence. So we must strive very hard, by the grace of God to keep the church focused on the mission that Christ originally gave to it.11

O western wind, when wilt thou blow That the small rain down can rain? Christ, that my love were in my arms And I in my bed again!

We are grateful for the saints, he says, who lift up the heart in the days of our distress. Would we do less? For do we less, there are no saints to lift up any heart. If Christ be Christ he says, true Lord of Heaven, true Lord of Men, what is there that we would not do no matter what our suffering may be?

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Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

Whereas militant Christianity triumphs over all, generative Christianity transforms the world through humble service to all. It is not about victory; it is about following Christ in order to seed human community with grace.