Christ Quotes - Page 21

How do we bring glory to God? The Bible’s short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.

Everybody really knows what to do to have his life filled with joy. What is it? Quit hating people; start loving them. Quit being mad at people; start liking them. Quit doing wrong; quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about yourself and go out and do something for other people. Everybody knows what you have to do to be happy. But the wisdom of the test lies in the final words: "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them."

The Immaculate alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. She seeks souls that will consecrate themselves entirely to her, that will become in her hands forceful instruments for the defeat of Satan and the spread of God's kingdom.

Love the sinner, hate the sin? How about: Love the sinner, hate your own sin! I don't have time to hate your sin. There are too many of you! Hating my sin is a full-time job. How about you hate your sin, I'll hate my sin and let's just love each other!

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.

You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you

Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized… because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though its attackers’ arguments were deeply flawed.

Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.

Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.

For I choose to follow not men or men's doctrines, but God and the doctrines [delivered] by Him. For if you have fallen in with some who are called Christians, but who do not admit this [truth], and venture to blaspheme the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; who say there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls, when they die, are taken to heaven; do not imagine that they are Christians

When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

You don't become a new person by changing your behavior; you discover who you are in Christ and your behavior changes accordingly

Everyone we meet is a hero waiting to happen. When Jesus saw people, He envisioned their potential. No respecter of persons, He associated with people from all walks of life.

Open your heart and invite God into every circumstance because when God enters the scene, miracles happen.

Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

I would have met Jesus sooner if not for Christians who led double lives.

I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.

Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer, had a very shiny nose. And if you ever saw him, you would even say it glows.

If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.

The business of the Christian is nothing else but to be ever preparing for death.

You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?

The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.

Is it permitted for Catholics to be present at, or to take part in, conventions, gatherings, meetings, or societies of non-Catholics which aim to associate together under a single agreement everyone who, in any way, lays claim to the name of Christian? In the negative! ... It is clear, therefore, why this Apostolic See has never allowed its subjects to take part in the assemblies of non-Catholics. There is one way in which the unity of Christians may be fostered, and that is by furthering the return to the one true Church of Christ for those who are separated from Her.