Christ Quotes

Our tendency is to be converted to church and not to Christ.

The real preparation for [Christ's] return is not to act like we know it's coming right now and do something different. It's to do what we should have been doing all along.

We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.

We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.

Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.

Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].

Salvation has nothing to do with your religious identity, where you were baptized or where you are a member. It has everything to do with if you have faith in Jesus Christ.

The person of Christ is to me the greatest and surest of all facts.

Consecrated life means going to the very root of the love of Jesus Christ with an undivided heart and putting nothing ahead of this love.

An authentically eucharistic Church is a missionary Church... Truly, nothing is more beautiful than to know Christ and to make him known to others.

The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.

May all our contemporaries stand beside their brothers and sisters in humanity. Each one of you is called by Christ and must be a missionary of the Good News in word and in active charity.

I urge you to continue your fraternal cooperation with one another in the spirit of the community of Christ's disciples, united in your love for him and in the Gospel that you proclaim.

The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.

Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously... He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.

Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country.

If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.

We are not saved by feelings of sorrow over Jesus' death. We are saved when the Word of God 'pierces' our hearts (Hebrews 4:12), when we are convicted of our sins and trust Christ by faith.

By trusting Christ's redemptive work for us, we can enter into what we long for: the happiness found only in God.

I believe that marriage is a representation of Christ and the church and when Christ and the church are unified, they are the strongest and most attractive to those that don't know Jesus.

Some scars never heal. And he sounds like he has a lot of them.' 'But Christ had scars too, even on His risen Body. Wounds in this life become glory in the next.

Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, all will be made right in the Lord's timing.

The only reason you can love God or anybody else is because God first loved you. And he showed that love by sending Jesus Christ to Earth to die for you.

I happen to know people who are followers of Christ in other religions.

Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely.

Unfathomable oceans of grace are in Christ for you. Dive and dive again, you will never come to the bottom of these depths.

We do not know the value of Christ, if we will not cleave to Him unto death!

There needs to be unity, especially in the body of Christ.

If it's true that Christ was correct in saying that faith in himself is the only way to heaven, then sharing that truth is a demonstration of love, not hatred, toward unbelievers.

One of the consistent themes you'll find throughout the Bible is that God will always provide the necessary information about Jesus Christ to someone who sincerely desires to receive that revelation.

Those of us who are Christians believe Jesus Christ is the only one who can redeem us.

For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ.

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning

One of the most fallacious doctrines originated by Satan and propounded by man is that man is saved alone by the grace of God; that belief in Jesus Christ alone is all that is needed for salvation

How many prison years in the years since Christ!

No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of God conquers some, changes their wills, and binds them to Christ.

In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators.

The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ.

If Jesus Christ was not perfect, then the religion bearing his name falls to the ground.

Christ, Buddha, and Krishna are but waves in the Ocean of Infinite Consciousness that I am!

I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.

Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.

Jesus. Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. Delilah, Jezebel, Salome, Judith, Eve. Trouble, every last one. Add Minerva Highwood to the list.

Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.

Christ's resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.

Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance but on the saving work of Christ.