Quotes about Christ

At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.

I measure Your love for me by the magnitude of the wrath I deserved, and the wonder of Your mercy by putting Christ in my place.

All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him.

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.

Among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ is that of giving a voice to the cry of the poor.

God's holiness demands that sin be punished - but God's love has provided the way of redemption through Christ.

What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

Christians in community must again show the world, not merely family values, but the bond of the love of Christ.

Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.

In every sound convert the judgment is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subscribe to them as most righteous and reasonable; the desire of the heart is to know the whole mind of Christ; the free and resolved choice of the heart is determined for the ways of Christ, before all the pleasures of sin, and prosperities of the world; it is the daily care of his life to walk with God.

Christ does not control his subjects by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through His grace, freely devoted to His service.

The unsound convert takes Christ by halves. He is all for the salvation of Christ, but is not for sanctification. He is for the privileges, but does not appropriate the person of Christ.