If we think the main mission of the church is to improve life in Adam and add a little moral strength to this fading evil age, we have not yet understood the radical condition for which Christ is such a radical solution.
My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.
The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.
All true obedience comes from the heart. It was heart work with Christ. And if we consent, He will so identify Himself with our thoughts and aims, so blend our hearts and minds into conformity to His will, that when obeying Him we shall be but carrying out our own impulses. The will, refined and sanctified, will find its highest delight in doing His service. When we know God as it is our privilege to know Him, our life will be a life of continual obedience. Through an appreciation of the character of Christ, through communion with God, sin will become hateful to us.
Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
None are sent empty away from Christ but those who come to him full of themselves.
I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.
All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said, 'the kingdom of heaven is within you. ' Quakers call it the ‘still small voice within. ’ This is the space of full awareness that is in harmony with all the universe, and thus is wisdom itself.
Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.
We must learn from Mary, and we must imitate her unconditional readiness to receive Christ in her life.
If I can't take Jesus Christ with me, I don't want to go.
The price is certainly high for people who don’t know Christ and who live in a world where Christians shrink back from self-denying faith and settle into self-indulging faith. While Christians choose to spend their lives fulfilling the American dream instead of giving their lives to proclaiming the kingdom of God, literally billions in need of the Gospel remain in the dark
Christ does not choose you because you are good, but to make you good.
If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether our faith in Christ is genuine.
That fact that Jesus Christ died is more important than that fact that I will die.
Christ was made man that we might be made God.
The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.
If I am to wholly follow the Lord Jesus Christ, I must forsake everything that is contrary to Him.
If our lives and our faith are centered on Jesus Christ and his restored gospel, nothing can ever go permanently wrong. On the other hand, if our lives are not centered on the Savior and his teachings, no other success can ever be permanently right.