Jesus Christ Quotes - Page 6

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

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch. We experience his care.

You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

Peter must have thought, "Who am I compared to Mr. Faithfulness (John)?" But Jesus clarified the issue. John was responsible for John. Peter was responsible for Peter. And each had only one command to heed: "Follow Me." (John 21:20-22)

Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.

The abundance Jesus offers is a spiritual abundance that transcends circumstances, like income, health, living conditions, and even death. The abundant life is eternal.

Peter's destiny lay along a different path from John's. And your calling is unlike anyone else's. But the call remains the same: "Follow Me!

Let your passion become a passionate pursuit of Me. And as you follow, the sheep will follow.' (John 21:20-22)

The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] - He wants us to be good and kind.

In conversion, God interferes with out lives. We relinquish autonomy. If we find the gospel message to be true, we need to surrender to God and change our lives. For that reason - whether or not the trilemma or some form of it works - many will still never assent that Jesus is God.

Your imaginations are not beyond creation, only God's imaginations exceeds all creation.

Peace with God brings peace with each other.

We all need role models in different seasons, people we look to who bring encouragement for the journey. Every role model but One will fail. If we get up-close we will see that each one is imperfect, except the One perfect lamb who was crucified for our sins. He was the scapegoat. He was the rejected One.

We are not Jesus Christ; we are sinners. But it is up to you whether you want to be good or evil.

The nails did not kill Him... It was the needs that did.

The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in Him we find both God and our misery.

How ought we to love God, Father?" he asked in a whisper.
"By loving men, my son"
"And how ought we to love men?"
"By trying to guide them along the right path"
"And what is the right path?"
"The one that rises"
- Nikos Kazanzakis, Christ Recrucified

Good soldiers know that if they don’t recognize who their enemy is, they are destined to lose the war. That is also true for those of us who battle in God’s army. Even though Jesus put the enemy under His feet and won the victory for us, we still must move into that victory. There are still battles to be fought in prayer.