Christ Quotes - Page 28

If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.

But I and others, who are right-minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand years in Jerusalem, which will then be built, adorned, and enlarged, [as] the prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah and others declare.

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.

Always seek peace between your heart and God, but in this world, always be careful to remain ever-restless, never satisfied, and always abounding in the work of the Lord.

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.

We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.

We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

It’s not comparing yourself with others who call themselves Christians. Compare yourself to the Scripture.

Christ sent me to preach the gospel and he will look after the results.

Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'?

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it

What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort. Christians come together because they have all been loved by Jesus himself. They are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus' sake.

You will never have a better friend than a friend who points you to Christ.

No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution, strenuous diligence, and steady perseverance. Yet we expect to be Christians without labour, study, or inquiry.

I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

To be a Christian is not only to believe the teaching of Christ, and to practice it; it is not only to try to follow the pattern and example of Christ; it is to be so vitally related to Christ that His life and His power are working in us. It is to be "in Christ," it is for Christ to be in us.

Even if people have disappointed you or circumstances have not turned out as you had hoped or prayed, know that God is with you, cares for you, and loves you. He is working all these things together for your good right at this very moment.

At the end of the day, God's love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.

A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.