Christ Quotes - Page 39

Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

Believers talk about trusting in the Lord with their whole heart and refusing to lean on thier own understanding, but no one really knows what that means until circumstances cast them headfirst into a dark and painful place. If we give ourselves fully to God in those moments, we will obtain keepsakes of Him to treasure now and forever.

As a Christian, you ought to be less concerned about where God is bringing you out from, rather, focus on where He's taking you to.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

It is the great business of every Christian to save souls.

The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.

If I had my way, I would declare a moratorium on public preaching of 'the plan of salvation' in America for one to two years. Then I would call on everyone who has use of the airways and the pulpits to preach the holiness of God, therighteousness of God and the law of God, until sinners would cry out, 'What must we do to be saved?' Then I would take them off in a corner and whisper the gospel to them. Such drastic action is needed because we have gospel-hardened a generation of sinners by telling them how to be saved before they have any understanding why they need to be saved.

That is the hope that inspires Christians. We know that every effort to better society, especially when injustice and sin are so ingrained, is an effort that God blesses, that God wants, that God demands of us.

Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig.

Only wonder can comprehend His incomprehensible power.

God loves us already and has from our very beginning. The Christian life is not about believing or doing what we need to believe or do so that we can be saved. Rather, it's about seeing what is already true – that God loves us already – and then beginning to live in this relationship. It is about becoming conscious of and intentional about a deepening relationship with God.

The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin.

If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

All these people, all these things came into my life, and they're all blessings from God. And now that I look back, I realize that these are His fingerprints all over my story.

Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.

I'm not Jesus Christ but I can turn water into Kool-Aid.

A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too comfortably situated as a rule to desire innovation that might require sacrifice on their part. And God's fire only falls on sacrifice. An empty altar receives no fire!

All you may know of heaven or hell is within your own self.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.