Christ Quotes
Christ is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us.
The goal and target of our life is He, the Christ who awaits us -- each one singly and altogether -- to lead us across the boundaries of time to the eternal embrace of the God who loves us.
Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.
Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes.
Many people perceive Christianity as something institutional - rather than as an encounter with Christ - which explains why they don't see it as a source of joy.
The night was full of horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts.
The Holy Eucharist is the perfect expression of the love of Jesus Christ for man since It is the quintessence of all the mysteries of His Life.
Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it.
A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose whole comportment and whose activity have their root in the sentiment of gratitude.
Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen. ... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in every soul and is never extinguished.
A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'
I put myself in the hands of Christ, who is the true leader of the church.
I may have implied on several occasions to several different people that I may have been Jesus Christ, but I haven't decided yet what I am or who I am.
Don't make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.
Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.
The Father did not require the death of Christ to persuade Him to love us. Christ died because the Father loves us.
Christians have a new identity. We are no longer 'in Adam' but 'in Christ'; no longer in the flesh but in the Spirit.
May the spirit of Christ so fill us afresh that we might in turn be a refreshment and an encouragement to one another.
What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.
If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
There's a throne in each life big enough for only one. Christ may be on that throne, or money may be. But both cannot occupy it.
Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem - but all in vain until He is born in me.
Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ.
It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.
I really believe that to have a full impression of Jesus, both as Christ as a man, you must know about the world that gave shape to him - the world out of which he arose.
Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
It is Christ's manner to trouble our souls first, and then to come with healing in his wings.
Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.
Blest are the pure in heart, for they shall see our God. The secret of the Lord is theirs; Their soul is Christ's abode.
Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That should matter to us, not whether we ourselves are praised.
What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.
Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.
We must reflect the light of Christ through lives of prayer and joyful service to others.
Christianity is a power religion. Christ has the power to re-create men from the inside out, as every man who has ever met Him knows.
I am convinced that we Christ-followers need an understanding of playfulness if we are going to take sanctification by the Holy Spirit seriously.
