Quotes on Christ

Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.

Author: Roland Allen

If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.

Author: Ian Anderson

Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.

Author: Sherwood Anderson

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Author: Francis Assisi

You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar.

Author: Sebastian Bach

In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.

Author: Jim Bakker

It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews.

Author: Monica Bellucci

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

Author: John Belushi

The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.

Author: Tony Benn

If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.

Author: Charles Bent

An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.

Author: Jose Bergamin

To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

Author: Peter Brook

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Author: Phillips Brooks

There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.

Author: Georg Buchner

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

Author: Anthony Burgess

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

Author: Samuel Butler

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

Author: Donald Cargill

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Author: Jimmy Carter

They do not walk in... the path of Christ.

Author: Hugo Chavez

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

Author: Adam Clarke

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

Author: Adam Clarke

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

Author: John Clayton

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.

Author: John Clayton

Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.

Author: Edwin Cole

I know Jesus Christ died for my sins, and that's all I really need to know.

Author: Ann Coulter

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

Author: Oliver Cromwell

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.

Author: John Darby

Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Author: John Darby

When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.

Author: Dorothy Day

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.

Author: David Duchovny

Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.

Author: Albrecht Durer

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

Author: Dennis Farina

I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.

Author: Frances Farmer

We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.

Author: John Fiske

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

Author: Thomas Goodwin

Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.

Author: Thomas Goodwin

Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

Author: William Gurnall

Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

Author: Heinrich Heine

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.

Author: Claudio Hummes

You try to get the feel of any role, but it's much more difficult in the case of Christ because everyone has their own personal image of Him. It's a role you take on, knowing that no matter how you play it, you are going to disappoint many.

Author: Jeffrey Hunter

I am a channel for the Christ spirit. The title was given to me very recently by the Godhead.

Author: David Icke

Wouldn't you like to have heard the voice of Shakespeare, or Jesus Christ?

Author: Henry Irving

If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new.

Author: Russell Johnson

Christ would not vote for Barack Obama, because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved.

Author: Alan Keyes

The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world.

Author: Tim LaHaye

The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.

Author: Tim LaHaye

We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.

Author: Hal Lindsey

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

Author: David Livingstone

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.

Author: David Livingstone

Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.

Author: Walter Martin

If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.

Author: Josh McDowell

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

Author: Josh McDowell

Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them.

Author: Josh McDowell

What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.

Author: Aimee McPherson

I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ.

Author: Daniel Morgan

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.

Author: Edward Murrow

But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ.

Author: Marvin Olasky

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

Author: Joel Osteen

Feast of the Holy Innocents The most thrilling thing you can ever do is win someone to Christ. And it's contagious. Once you do it, you don't want to stop.

Author: Luis Palau

Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.

Author: Saint Patrick

What shall I do then with Jesus, which is called Christ?

Author: Pontius Pilate

What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

Author: Iggy Pop

Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.

Author: Timothy Radcliffe

We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.

Author: Anne Rice

My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.

Author: Georges Rouault

Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.

Author: Samuel Rutherford

One congressman asked 'I just want to know if you've accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior. The minister looked stunned, and he said 'no.' The whole table almost fell on the floor. The congressman was quite serious. That was his litmus test.

Author: Jim Sasser

The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the word became flesh, and dwells among us.'

Author: Philip Schaff

That though thou seest it no great matter to be separated from Christ now, yet when the heavens shall be in a flaming fire, and the earth shall give up the dead that be in it.

Author: Thomas Shepard

Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.

Author: Joseph Smith, Jr.

As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be.

Author: James Somerville

The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth.

Author: Joanna Southcott

Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.

Author: Max Sydow

When I finished the role of Christ, I felt as though I'd been let out on parole. A man who has served 18 months isn't eager to go back to prison.

Author: Max Sydow

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

Author: William Taft

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

Author: Mother Teresa

Many things there be in the scripture, which have a carnal fulfilling, even there where they be spoken or done; and yet have another spiritual signification, to be fulfilled long after in Christ and his kingdom, and yet never known till the thing be done.

Author: William Tyndale

Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.

Author: David Wilkerson

I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure.

Author: John Woolman