255 Quotes on Christ

• My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.

  Author: John Woolman

• 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

• My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.

  Author: Frank Wolf

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

  Author: David Wilkerson

• Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.

  Author: David Wilkerson

• For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.

  Author: George Whitefield

• Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

  Author: George Whitefield

• Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.

  Author: George Whitefield

• The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.

  Author: George Whitefield

• O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you.

  Author: George Whitefield

• Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

  Author: Simone Weil

• Here is also to be noted, that the cause of the institution was to be a memorial, to testify that Christ's body was given, and his blood shed for us.

  Author: William Tyndale

• And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ's blood.

  Author: William Tyndale

• Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.

  Author: William Tyndale

• To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.

  Author: William Tyndale

• 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

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

  Author: Christy Turlington

• Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.

  Author: Randall Terry

• There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

  Author: Mother Teresa

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

  Author: Mother Teresa

• I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.

  Author: Channing Tatum

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal.

  Author: Max Sydow

• There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.

  Author: John Strachan

• Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.

  Author: John Strachan

• I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.

  Author: Scott Stapp

• Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.

  Author: Charles Stanley

• 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

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

  Author: James Somerville

• John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybody's calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth.

  Author: James Somerville

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

  Author: Joseph Smith, Jr.

• Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

  Author: George Smith

• For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

  Author: Christopher Smart

• Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

  Author: Matthew Simpson

• If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.

  Author: Matthew Simpson

• Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of the sins of all men.

  Author: Sargent Shriver

• 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

• My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

  Author: Al Sharpton

• I do not separate Christ from God more than a voice from the speaker or a beam from the sun. Christ is the voice of the speaker. He and the Father are the same thing, as the beam and the light, are the same light.

  Author: Michael Servetus

• I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

  Author: Andres Serrano

• Then Christ shall be clothed with all the beauty of the elect as if with a long tunic variously adorned, in which He shall shine as if covered with all manner of precious stones.

  Author: Saint Sequoyah

• The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ.

  Author: Richard Scott

• Our covering ministry is Challenge for Christ ministries, and Travel the Road was solely our mission arm, designed to expose people to what missions are, then connect them with agencies that send people out.

  Author: Michael Scott

• In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah.

  Author: Jack Schwartz

• 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

• Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.

  Author: Philip Schaff

• Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

  Author: Philip Schaff

• It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee.

  Author: Girolamo Savonarola

• 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

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

  Author: Samuel Rutherford

• To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

  Author: Samuel Rutherford

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

  Author: Georges Rouault

• God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.

  Author: Bob Riley

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

  Author: Anne Rice

• All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

  Author: Ernest Renan

• What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.

  Author: Karl Rahner

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

  Author: Timothy Radcliffe

• The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

  Author: Timothy Radcliffe

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

  Author: Iggy Pop

• A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

  Author: Edgar Poe

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

  Author: Pontius Pilate

• The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.

  Author: Pope Paul II

• Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.

  Author: Pope Paul II

• The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

  Author: Pope Paul II

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

  Author: Saint Patrick

• One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.

  Author: Luis Palau

• 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

• It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.

  Author: Peter O'Toole

• You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

  Author: Joel Osteen

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

  Author: Joel Osteen

• Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.

  Author: Origen

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

  Author: Marvin Olasky

• Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.

  Author: Alfred Noyes

• Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?

  Author: Gary North

• Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is unquestionably a training manual. However, He has many interpreters, and few people see the Bible as a true training manual.

  Author: Gary North

• Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with biblical wording that's no longer understood by a lot of people.

  Author: Larry Norman

• Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he came to establish will always be a minority affair.

  Author: Edward Norman

• You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

  Author: Paul Newman

• 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

• I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.

  Author: Daniel Morgan

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

  Author: Daniel Morgan

• Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's.

  Author: Sun Moon

• A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.

  Author: Dwight Moody

• It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

  Author: Dwight Moody

• No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

  Author: Charles Montesquieu

• Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.

  Author: Arthur Middleton

• 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

• Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.

  Author: David McKay

• If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.

  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

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

  Author: Josh McDowell

• 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

• This type of gathering is unprecedented. The time has come for Christians to publicly affirm our Jewish roots, distinctions and oneness in Jesus Christ.

  Author: Bill McCartney

• The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.

  Author: James Martineau

• The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.

  Author: Walter Martin

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

  Author: Walter Martin

• I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.

  Author: John Machen

• The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

  Author: Martin Luther

• Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

  Author: Martin Luther

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

  Author: Martin Luther

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

  Author: David Livingstone

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

  Author: David Livingstone

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

  Author: Hal Lindsey

• Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.

  Author: Ben Lindsey

• God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.

  Author: Joseph Lightfoot

• Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

  Author: C. Lewis

• Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.

  Author: William Law

• In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ.

  Author: Kenneth Latourette

• In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.

  Author: Kenneth Latourette

• Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.

  Author: Walter Lang

• In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.

  Author: Walter Lang

• It's going to be used in the last days to get people to come against Christ, and that's the issue: they come against the Lord Jesus Christ. And in this new book, we show Christ coming to settle that big issue.

  Author: Tim LaHaye

• The tribulation period is seven years, and when the signing of the covenant occurs, people who know the Bible and take it literally will know that, seven years later, Christ is going to come in His power and glory.

  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

• 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

• 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

• Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.

  Author: E. Jones

• 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, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn't he worry about the team and forget what people are saying? He got Phil Thompson, who was a kid coming through when I was a Liverpool player, to have a go at me. So now I don't talk to him.

  Author: Ian John

• When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.

  Author: Jerry Jenkins

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

  Author: Henry Irving

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

  Author: David Icke

• More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.

  Author: Bill Hybels

• I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.

  Author: Jeffrey Hunter

• I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?

  Author: Jeffrey Hunter

• 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

• 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

• Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

  Author: Basil Hume

• My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself.

  Author: Trevor Huddleston

• No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

  Author: Mark Hopkins

• The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.

  Author: Charles Hodge

• Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ.

  Author: Charles Hodge

• Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.

  Author: Charles Hodge

• Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.

  Author: Charles Hodge

• But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.

  Author: Charles Hodge

• All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions.

  Author: Charles Hodge

• The day is coming when there will not be one sick saint in the body of Christ.

  Author: Benny Hinn

• This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

  Author: Patrick Henry

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

  Author: Heinrich Heine

• God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

  Author: John Haggai

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

  Author: William Gurnall

• In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.

  Author: William Gurnall

• I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.

  Author: Jane Grey

• God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, "I love you."

  Author: Billy Graham

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

  Author: Thomas Goodwin

• Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

  Author: Thomas Goodwin

• Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.

  Author: Thomas Goodwin

• We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us.

  Author: Thomas Goodwin

• They're not posing as being Jesus Christ all the time.

  Author: Jim Goad

• My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.

  Author: Todd Gitlin

• Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.

  Author: Mel Gibson

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

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

• For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

  Author: Maggie Gallagher

• Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may seem nothing else but a verifying of the said prophecy.

  Author: John Foxe

• Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

  Author: George Fox

• 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 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

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

  Author: Dennis Farina

• We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

  Author: George Eliot

• 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

• Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

  Author: Isadora Duncan

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

  Author: David Duchovny

• To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

  Author: Henry Drummond

• The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

  Author: Denis Diderot

• It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.

  Author: Dorothy Day

• 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

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

  Author: John Darby

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

  Author: John Darby

• I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

  Author: John Darby

• I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.

  Author: Willem Dafoe

• God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

  Author: Russell Crowe

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

  Author: Oliver Cromwell

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

  Author: Ann Coulter

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

  Author: Edwin Cole

• The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

  Author: John Clayton

• Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?

  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

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

  Author: John Clayton

• Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.

  Author: Adam Clarke

• If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.

  Author: Adam Clarke

• But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.

  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

• This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.

  Author: Adam Clarke

• 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 I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Author: Clayton Christensen

• For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.

  Author: Martin Chemnitz

• In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother.

  Author: Martin Chemnitz

• Nevertheless the meaning is not that the blessed bread which is divided, which is offered, and which the apostles received from the hand of Christ was not the body of Christ but becomes the body of Christ when the eating of it is begun.

  Author: Martin Chemnitz

• This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.

  Author: Martin Chemnitz

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

  Author: Hugo Chavez

• I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

  Author: Charlie Chaplin

• Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

  Author: Oswald Chambers

• The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

  Author: Oswald Chambers

• I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

  Author: Fidel Castro

• I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality.

  Author: Sydney Carter

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

  Author: Jimmy Carter

• I say, traitors; as some men live upon the reward of treachery, for their quiet and liberty; if it may be called a liberty, as it is redeemed with the betraying of the interest of Christ, and the blood of His people.

  Author: Donald Cargill

• I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

  Author: Donald Cargill

• Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

  Author: Donald Cargill

• 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

• Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ.

  Author: Donald Cargill

• I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.

  Author: George Carey

• What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.

  Author: George Carey

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

  Author: John Calvin

• Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

  Author: Samuel Butler

• 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

• For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

  Author: Joseph Butler

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

  Author: Anthony Burgess

• ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.

  Author: Thomas Bulfinch

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

  Author: Georg Buchner

• Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

  Author: James Brown

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

  Author: Phillips Brooks

• 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

• 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

• Christ in this country would quite likely have been arrested under the Suppression of Communism act.

  Author: Joost Blank

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

  Author: Jose Bergamin

• 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

• 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

• The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.

  Author: Pope Benedict XVI

• And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

  Author: Julien Benda

• Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

  Author: John Belushi

• 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

• Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.

  Author: Thomas Becket

• Some will have to cease thinking of the Church as a memorial association for a deceased clergyman called Christ.

  Author: Stephen Bayne

• In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

  Author: Karl Barth

• Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

  Author: William Barclay

• If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.

  Author: William Barclay

• Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit.

  Author: Robert Barclay

• 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

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

  Author: Sebastian Bach

• In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.

  Author: Edward Bach

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

  Author: Francis Assisi

• We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.

  Author: Francis Asbury

• Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.

  Author: Johann Arndt

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

  Author: Thomas Aquinas

• He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always.

  Author: Fra Angelico

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

  Author: Sherwood Anderson

• 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

• Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.

  Author: William Ames

• Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

  Author: Roland Allen

• 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 we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

  Author: Roland Allen

• Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are.

  Author: Archibald Alexander

• But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.

  Author: Archibald Alexander

• Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.

  Author: Will Adams

• You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

  Author: Ralph Abernathy

• I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.

  Author: Willie Aames

• I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never let them down and never hurt them.

  Author: Willie Aames

• I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.

  Author: Willie Aames

• I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?

  Author: Willie Aames

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