1,222 Quotes About Christ

When did we, as Christ followers, start to think that the church exists for us? When did we forget that we are the church? And that we're here for the world?

Spirituality has thus come to be regarded by the world as those futile, self-torturing excesses of strange men and women who lived in far-off, benighted places and times. Accordingly, the One who came to give abundance of life is commonly thought of as a cosmic stuffed shirt, whose excessive "spirituality" probably did not allow him normal bodily functions and certainly would not permit him to throw a frisbee or tackle someone in a football game.

Carry your cross and follow Christ.

To understand even remotely the holy omnipotence of God is to understand at least from mostly to wholly the magnificence of Christ.

О, как жестоко и по-детскимы сглазили поводыря,и скольких мы, не зря, в Донецкеубьем, и нас убьют — не зря.Схоронят звезды и медалипод деревянное пальто,а ведь — не зря Христа распяли,ведь, если б не распяли, то:лежал бы на плацкартной полке,хрустя отравленной мацой,писал стихи, и в черной «волге»разбился бы, как Виктор Цой.

You will never know love's depth, until it is gone.

The first thing the Cross does is cross out the world's word by a Wholly-Other Word, a Word that the world does not want to hear at any price. For the world wants to live and rise again before it dies, while the love of Christ wants to die in order to rise again in the form of God on the other side of death, indeed, IN death.

Nous sommes des chrétiens faibles simplement parce que nous avons refusé d'être des serviteurs de Christ

Thou has heard the words of Christ. . . . Dost thou weep, when I have thee, Poor soul, what aileth thee? Dost thou weep, when I have wept so much? Be of good cheer ; thy wounds are saving, and not deadly. It is I that have made them, who mean thee no hurt : though I let out thy blood, I will not let out thy life (628).