Christ Quotes

Christ has come into the world to lay out a garden wherein, amid splendor and abundance, there should thrive the violet of humanity, the myrtle of mortification, the rose of love, the lily of virginal souls, the laurel of confessors and the palm of martyrs.

~ Fr James Groenings

There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none.

~ Eric Metaxas

Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.

~ Andrew Murray

Don't bring Hollywood, bring Christ. Don't bring power. Don't bring just your money. Bring love. Bring the kingdom.

~ Brother Andrew

True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!

~ Sinclair B. Ferguson

God doesn't stop crisis from coming, as He didn't stop Christ from coming. Things have their reasons for happening, we need not to faint, but rather have faith that we are never alone.

~ Anthony Liccione

Legend tells us that the High King of Tara, who ruled supreme over all the Kings of Ireland, looked out from his castle one day during the festival of Eostre and saw a fire blazing away on a far hillside. Furious with this obvious disregard for the law, for which the penalty was death, he sent out soldiers to arrest the guilty party. When the soldiers arrived at the hillside they found St Patrick, the patron Saint of Ireland, piling wood onto his fire and immediately seized him. Standing before the King he was asked why he disobeyed the law, and he explained that his fire was a sign that Christ had risen from the dead and was the light of the world. The King so admired Patrick’s courage that he forgave him and became a convert to Christianity!

~ Carole Carlton

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. Ladies and gentlemen, this is what Christianity is all about. God never intended for us to walk this world alone, and Christ did not die for us to keep His love all to ourselves.

~ Jen Stephens

The profundity of Christianity is that Christ is both our redeemer and our judge, not that one is our redeemer and another is our judge, for then we certainly come under judgement, but that the redeemer and the judge are the same.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

We should remember Christ's words, 'Let nothing be wasted,' when we look in our refrigerators and garbage cans and garages.

~ Randy Alcorn

The synoptic Gospels of the New Testament manuscripts make us aware of Christ's character and gives us a view of the 'son-ship' He modeled which flowed out of that Divine character. ~R. Alan Woods [2013]

~ R. Alan Woods

But, said Lewis, myths are lies, even though lies breathed through silver.No, said Tolkien, they are not....just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.We have come from God (continued Tolkien), and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming a 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.You mean, asked Lewis, that the story of Christ is simply a true myth, a myth that works on us in the same way as the others, but a myth that really happened? In that case, he said, I begin to understand.

~ Humphrey Carpenter

The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.

~ A.w. Tozer

Christ for the world, for the world needs Christ!

~ Eric Liddell

What determines our brotherhood is what that man is by reason of Christ. Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to both of us. This is true not merely at the beginning, as though in the course of time something else were to be added to our community; it remains so for all the future and to all eternity. I have community with others and I shall continue to have it only through Jesus Christ. The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and his work become the one and only thing that is vital between us. We have one another only through Christ, but through Christ we do have one another, wholly, for eternity.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia

~ Max Lucado

Love is not only pure joy, and delight, but also great and deep heaviness of heart and sorrow. But love too is full of joy and sweetness even in bitter sorrow, because it regards the misery and injury of others as its own. So also Christ was glowing with burning love in His last and greatest agony. According to St. Hilary, it was Christ's greatest joy that He endured the greatest woe. Thus God giveth strength and power unto His people (Ps. 68:15). While they experience the greatest sorrow, their hearts overflow with joy.

~ Martin Luther

I have sometimes wondered why Jesus so frequently touched the people he healed, many of whom must have been unattractive, obviously diseased, unsanitary, smelly. With his power, he easily could have waved a magic wand. In fact, a wand would have reached more people than a touch. He could have divided the crowd into affinity groups and organized his miracles--paralyzed people over there, feverish people here, people with leprosy there--raising his hands to heal each group efficiently, en masse. But he chose not to. Jesus' mission was not chiefly a crusade against disease (if so, why did he leave so many unhealed in the world and tell followers to hush up details of healings?), but rather a ministry to individual people, some of whom happened to have a disease. He wanted those people, one by one, to feel his love and warmth and his full identification with them. Jesus knew he could not readily demonstrate love to a crowd, for love usually involves touching.

~ Paul Brand

Love is a vicarious principle. A mother suffers for and with her sick child, as a patriot suffers for his country. No wonder that the Son of Man visited this dark, sinful, wretched earth by becoming Man - Christ's unity with the sinful was due to His love! Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

Friend who has fired the kingfishers and flamed the dragonflies – they catch your light however they move and beam it out of their eyes.

~ Bryana Johnson

After attainment of Supreme knowledge a man lives but he does not lead an ordinary man’s life. He lives, he eats, he sleeps and by God’s commandment he becomes a ‘man-catcher’ as Christ told Peter.

~ Jibankrishna

May the Father be gracious according to your needs.Dear Father preserve their life,relieve them of pain,restore them to good health and strengh.Put them in your fatherly care.Forgive them all their sins. So they may be at peace with you.

~ Shelley E Williams

But we had ceased to hate. Belsen had some way cured us of all hate, at least all hate of any human creature. We had learned what evil there is in the world or beyond the world, what happens to a man or a group of men-call them a nation if you will- when they have given themselves over to the powers of evil, when they have denied the Christ.

~ Robert Collis

The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.

~ Caryll Houselander

The very first evidence of awakening grace is dissatisfaction with one's self and self-effort and a longing for deliverance from chains of sin that have bound the soul. To own frankly that I am lost and guilty is the prelude to life and peace. It is not a question of a certain depth of grief and sorrow, but simply the recognition and acknowledgment of need that lead one to turn to Christ for refuge. None can perish who put their trust in Him. His grace superabounds above all our sin, and His expiatory work on the cross is so infinitely precious to God that it fully meets all our uncleanness and guilt.

~ H.a. Ironside

It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.

~ Marty Rubin

I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.

~ Pierce Brosnan

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

~ John Calvin

Jesus Christ is infinitely more than a great teacher and philosopher.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

The Lord, Jesus Christ, is our perfect example of patience.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

~ Christy Turlington

We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

~ Joel Osteen

Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.

~ Josh Mcdowell

Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.

~ John Clayton

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

~ Martin Luther

When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.

~ Joseph Prince

We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.

~ Charles Lindbergh