It will cost you to follow Christ, but it costs even more not to follow Him.
In Christ, it's never too late, you're never too old. . . it's never "too anything" for Him to work positive change in your life.
For godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce Himself in you; not self-righteousness, but Christ-righteousness; the righteousness which is by faith
Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they can at least convert them to the boggiest of soft-left clichés, on the grounds that if Jesus were alive today he’d most likely be a gay Anglican bishop in a committed relationship driving around in an environmentally friendly car with an “Arms are for Hugging” sticker on the way to an interfaith dialogue with a Wiccan and a couple of Wahhabi imams.
The religion I have to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest.
He that has no present Christ has a future, dark, chaotic, heaving with its destructive ocean; and over it there goes forever--black-pinioned winging its solitary and hopeless flight, the raven of his anxious thoughts, and finds no place to rest, and comes back again to the desolate ark with its foreboding croak of evil in the present and evil in the future.
To be "in Christ" is to place one's trust in Him for salvation from sin. To be "in Christ" is to trust His goodness, not our own; to trust that His sacrificial death on the cross paid the complete debt of death we owe for our sin; to trust that His resurrection gives us eternal life instead of relying upon our own ability to please God. To be "in Christ" is to claim, by faith, the free gift of salvation. To be "in Christ" is to enjoy a completely restored relationship with our Father in heaven by virtue of His Son's righteous standing.
Christ preaches only servitude and dependence. . . True Christians are made to be slaves.
The chief end for which Christ lived and died: To provide eternal redemption for sinners.
Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.
A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.
I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.
If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
The characteristic place to find Christians is among their enemies. The first place to look for Christ is in Hell.
a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.
What we have in Christ Jesus-Redemption through His blood is the beginning and foundation of everything.
You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ. A sense of peace will virtually always accompany His will and direction, even when the direction might not have been our personal preference.
It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.