Quotes About Christ

Christ does not make new laws; he rectifies the wrong interpretations of the scribes which had vitiated the purity of the law of God.

where Christ does not reign men are wolves to men. Each

For unless we realize our own helpless misery, we shall never know how much we need the remedy which Christ brings, nor come to him with the fervent love we owe him. But

For if by natural instinct or wisdom we could bring ourselves back to the road and escape from error, we would have no need for Christ. But

in the school of Christ, men are not merely taught about justification; they are made just by what he has done for them. And

It follows that we pray rightly only when we come to God trusting in the Mediator.

Let us know,   therefore, that when we have departed from Christ, nothing remains for   us but death.

But it is evident that the servants of Christ are treated with less humanity than adulterers, robbers, and other malefactors of their kind. This

Faith not only should be fixed upon the essence of Christ (as they say), but should also attend to his mission and power. It

Therefore, it is blasphemous to give the title Son to anyone but Christ.

So today those who scorn to go to school to Christ and to train themselves in listening to the Word, really mock God himself and judge both the law and the prophets — and even the gospel itself — as without value.

the faith of   the gospel is called the knowledge of God's grace; for no one has ever   tasted of the gospel but the man that knew himself to be reconciled to   God, and took hold of the salvation that is held forth in Christ.   

the apostle teaches us that nothing from us will please God, unless we are purged by the blood of Christ. Since

The general reason why Christ received baptism was, that he might   render full obedience to the Father; and the special reason was, that   he might consecrate baptism in his own body, that we might have it in   common with him.

all worship is unclean and wicked unless purified by the sprinkling of the blood of Christ.

before we receive any knowledge of God's Fatherly good will for us, the blood of Christ must intercede for us and restore us to God's favor. Besides

we should learn that there is no light in the law, or even in the whole Word of God, without Christ who is the Sun of Righteousness.

let us remember that while life is promised in Christ to all who believe, only a small part of the people are believers. Christ

Let, therefore, everyone who has shared in all the benefits which Christ has conferred upon us know that his whole life ought to conform to the death of Christ.

What is said of the law applies to the whole of Scripture: when it is not directed toward Christ as its one aim, it is tortured badly and twisted.

For although we hold that the Word of God alone lies beyond the sphere of our judgement, and that fathers and Councils are of authority only in so far as they accord with the rule of the Word, we still give to the Councils and fathers such rank and honor as it is meet for them to hold, under Christ.

If the testimony by which the Jews were assured of the salvation of their posterity is taken away from us, the coming of Christ would have the effect of making God's grace more obscure and less well attested to us than it was to the Jews before us.

when the law is separated from Christ, nothing is left but empty forms. This

This then is the highest adornment of the Kingdom of Christ, that he rules over his church by his Spirit. He