Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full. Outside of Christ, I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ, I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, “in Christ.”
– Watchman Nee
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Without Christ there is no hope.
– Charles Spurgeon
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One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling.
– A. B. Simpson
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As the sun can be seen only by its own light, so Christ can be known only by His own Spirit.
– Robert Leighton
Christ | The Holy Spirit | Light
I have a great need for Christ; I have a great Christ for my need.
– Charles Spurgeon
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Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ.
– Harry Ironside
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If your life is empty, fill it with Christ.
– Woodrow Kroll
Christ | Life
Christ is the Good Physician. There is no disease He cannot heal; no sin He cannot remove; no trouble He cannot help. He is the Balm of Gilead, the Great Physician who has never yet failed to heal all the spiritual maladies of every soul that has come unto Him in faith and prayer.
– James H. Aughey
Christ | Healing
Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.
– Alexander MacLaren
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The Jews looked upon a serpent to be freed from serpents; and we look upon the death of Christ to be delivered from death.
– Augustine
Christ | Death | Salvation
Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all.
– Hudson Taylor
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It is either all of Christ or none of Christ! I believe we need to preach again a whole Christ to the world – a Christ who does not need our apologies, a Christ who will not be divided, a Christ who will either be Lord of all or will not be Lord at all!
– A. W. Tozer
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In his life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live; in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins; in his resurrection, a conqueror; in his ascension, a king; in his intercession, a high priest.
– Martin Luther
Christ | Resurrection
Will power does not change men. Time does not change men. Christ does.
– Henry Drummond
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Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that has the possession of Him to all eternity!
– John Bunyan
Christ | Salvation | Eternity
Fellowship means among other things that we are ready to receive of Christ from others. Other believers minister Christ to me, and I am ready to receive.
– Watchman Nee
Christ | Fellowship
To see lonely, selfish, empty individuals transformed slowly but surely into warm, loving, wholesome, and happy people is to become aware of why Paul describes Christ as “unsearchable riches.”
– Ray C. Stedman
Christ | Conversion
Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.
– Alexander MacLaren
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To be in Christ is the source of the Christian’s life; to be like Christ is the sum of His excellence; to be with Christ is the fullness of His joy.
– Charles Hodge
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Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.
– Alexander MacLaren
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On the head of Christ are many crowns. He wears the crown of victory; He wears the crown of sovereignty; He wears the crown of creation; He wears the crown of providence; He wears the crown of grace; He wears the crown of glory – for every one of His glorified people owes his honor, happiness and blessedness to Him.
– James H. Aughey
Christ | Providence
He [Christ] foresees all the ambushes of Satan, searches into his intention, understands his strategies, and is as ready to speak to the Father for us, as He was to turn back and look Peter into a recovery at the crowing of the cock.
– Stephen Charnock
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Make Christ your most constant companion. Be more under His influence than under any other influence. Ten minutes spent in His society every day, ay, two minutes if it be face to face, and heart to heart, will make the whole day different. Every character has an inward spring, let Christ be it. Every action has a key-note, let Christ set it.
– Henry Drummond
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To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He assures us of God’s love for us. He sets us free from guilt because He died for us and from paralyzing fear because He reigns. He gives meaning to marriage and home, work and leisure, personhood and citizenship.
– John Stott
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Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.
– Augustine
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Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.
– Thomas Brooks
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Our religion is not Christianity so much as Christ. Our gospel is the knowledge, not of a system, but the saving knowledge of a personal Savior.
– James H. Aughey
The Gospel | Christ | Religion
But herein is the excellency of this Divine Sun, that He illuminates not only the object, but the faculty; doth not only open the mysteries of His kingdom, but opens blind eyes to behold them.
– Robert Leighton
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Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen. We must know the depth and malignity of our disease, in order to appreciate the great Physician.
– J. C. Ryle
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The Lord Jesus, everything. In himself worse than nothing. By grace, in Christ, the son of the King.
– George Mueller
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We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.
– A. B. Simpson
Christ | Suffering
The freshness of heart in Christ was always the same. You and I get so weary in our experience of the wilderness, but Christ’s heart is never wearied, it is as freshly set on the bride as when God chose us in Him before the foundation of the world.
– G.V. Wigram
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Live in Christ, live in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.
– Assorted Authors
Christ | Death
Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere!
– David Livingstone
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Be good; keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
– Thomas Merton
Christ | The Heart | Joy
It is a destructive addition to add anything to Christ.
– Richard Sibbes
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Christ’s life outwardly was one of the most troubled lives that was ever lived: tempest and tumult, tumult and tempest, the waves breaking over it all the time. But the inner life was a sea of glass. The great calm was always there.
– Henry Drummond
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The cross stands for definite realities which embody and express the leading characteristics of Christ’s agony.
– A. W. Pink
Salvation | Christ | The Cross
Christ never said much in mere words about the Christian graces. He lived them, He was them. Yet we do not merely copy Him. We learn His art by living with Him.
– Henry Drummond
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Christ is the breathing forth of the heart, life and spirit of God into all the dead race of Adam. He is the seeker, the finder, the restorer of all that, from Cain to the end of time, was lost and dead to the life of God. He is the love that prays for all its murderers; the love that willingly suffers and dies among thieves, that thieves may have a life with him in Paradise; the love that visits publicans, harlots and sinners, and wants and seeks to forgive where most is to be forgiven.
– William Law
Christ | Restoration | Murder
Christ rises above all things.
– A. B. Simpson
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In religion our only hope is to live a life good enough to require God to bless us, so every instance of sin and repentance is therefore traumatic, unnatural and threatening. Only under great duress do religious people admit they have sinned, because their only hope is their moral goodness. In the Gospel the knowledge of our acceptance in Christ makes it easier to admit that we are flawed, because we know we won’t be cast off if we confess the true depths of our sinfulness. Our hope is in Christ’s righteousness, not our own, so it is not as traumatic to admit our weaknesses and lapses.
– Tim Keller
Christ | God | The Gospel | Religion | Repentance
Christ counts it his honor, that he is a king of a willing people, and not of slaves.
– William Gurnall
Christ | Obedience
If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.
– R.A. Torrey
Prayer | Christ
In Christ alone, and His payment of the penalty for our sins upon the Cross, we find reconciliation to God and ultimate meaning and purpose.
– Dave Hunt
Salvation | Christ | The Cross
The love I bear Christ is but a faint and feeble spark, but it is an emanation from himself: He kindled it and he keeps it alive; and because it is his work, I trust many waters shall not quench it.
– John Newton
Christ | Trust
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
– Thomas Aquinas
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A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.
– C.S. Lewis
Christ | Salvation
It seems to me, as time goes on, that the only thing that is worth seeking for is to know and to be known by Christ — a privilege open alone to the childlike, who, with receptivity, guilelessness, and humility, move Godward.
– Charles H. Brent
Humility | Christ
In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners.
– John Calvin
Christ | Grace | Rewards
It is now agreed as a mere question of anthropology that the universal language of the human soul has always been “I perish with hunger.” This is what fits it for Christ. There is grandeur in this cry from the depths which makes its very unhappiness sublime.
– Henry Drummond
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I see Christ’s heart yearning over poor sinners–not poor sinners’ hearts yearning after Christ.
– G.V. Wigram
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The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
– Martin Luther
The Bible | Christ
Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as the object of our scrutiny, but of ourselves as utterly dependent on his saving and merciful knowledge of us. It is in proportion, as we are known to him that we find our real being and identity in Christ. We know him in and through ourselves in so far as his truth is the source of our being and his merciful love is the very heart of our life and existence.
– Thomas Merton
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You will never know down here that Christ is all you need until Christ is all you have left.
– Lester Roloff
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Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.
– Alexander MacLaren
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God has set us in His Son, hidden us in Him. As Moses was put into the cleft of the rock, so God has put us into Christ.
– G.V. Wigram
Christ | Salvation
The tribulation period is seven years, and when the signing of the covenant occurs, people who know the Bible and take it literally will know that, seven years later, Christ is going to come in His power and glory.
– Tim LaHaye
Prophecy | Christ | The Bible
The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.
– Thomas Brooks
Christ | Love
The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world.
– Tim LaHaye
Prophecy | Christ
The Self-Existent comes into being, the Uncreated is created, that which cannot be contained is contained.
– Assorted Authors
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Although Christ was God, He took flesh; and having been made man, He remained what He was, God.
– Origen
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God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form. The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
– C.S. Lewis
Salvation | Christ | Surrender
Hunger and longing for Christ hath brought on such a necessity of enjoying Christ that I will not, I do not want him; for I cannot master nor command Christ’s love.
– Samuel Rutherford
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All the glory and beauty of Christ are manifested within, and there He delights to dwell; His visits there are frequent, His condescension amazing, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and the peace that He brings passeth all understanding.
– Thomas a Kempis
Christ | Peace | Beauty
Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.
– A. B. Simpson
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Christ is the humility of God embodied in human nature; the Eternal Love humbling itself, clothing itself in the garb of meekness and gentleness, to win and serve and save us.
– Andrew Murray
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Christ puts Himself at the head of the mystic march of the generations; and, like the mysterious angel that Joshua saw in the plain by Jericho, makes the lofty claim, “Nay, but as the captain of the Lord’s host am I come up.”
– Alexander MacLaren
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The revelation of Christ, for which our souls thirst, thrills us increasingly as we more clearly understand who He is in all His fullness and what He accomplished to reconcile us to Himself.
– Dave Hunt
Christ | Holiness
Christ allows His money to be taken from Him, but never His sheep.
– Assorted Authors
Christ | Money
Christ is the humility of God embodied in human nature; the Eternal Love humbling itself, clothing itself in the garb of meekness and gentleness, to win and serve and save us.
– Andrew Murray
Christ | Meekness
Safe?’ said Mr. Beaver. ‘Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe, but he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.’
– C.S. Lewis
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Christ is our temple, in whom by faith all believers meet.
– Matthew Henry
Christ | Faith
A creed is the road or street. It is very good as far as it goes, but if it doesn’t take us to Christ it is worthless.
– Dwight L. Moody
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I am glad there is no such thing as “chance,” that nothing is left to itself, but that Christ everywhere has sway.
– Charles Spurgeon
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In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, ‘That is mine!’
– Abraham Kuyper
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Christ puts Himself at the head of the mystic march of the generations; and, like the mysterious angel that Joshua saw in the plain by Jericho, makes the lofty claim, “Nay, but as the captain of the Lord’s host am I come up.”
– Alexander MacLaren
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Life depends upon contact with Life. It cannot spring up out of itself. It cannot develop out of anything that is not Life. There is no Spontaneous Generation in religion any more than in Nature. Christ is the source of Life in the Spiritual World; and he that hath the Son hath Life, and he that hath not the Son, whatever else he may have, hath not Life.
– Henry Drummond
Life | Christ
Since He looked upon me, my heart is not my own. He hath run away to heaven with it.
– Samuel Rutherford
Christ | The Heart
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
– George Macdonald
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Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.
– William Gurnall
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In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, ‘That is mine!’
– Abraham Kuyper
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Christ is the humility of God embodied in human nature; the Eternal Love humbling itself, clothing itself in the garb of meekness and gentleness, to win and serve and save us.
– Andrew Murray
Christ | Meekness
Whom should we love, if not Him who loved us, and gave himself for us?
– Assorted Authors
Love | Salvation | Christ
I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man.
– Jim Elliot
Salvation | Christ | The Cross
The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar.
– Assorted Authors
Christ | History
As the kernel of old humanity, Noah and his family, was once contained in the ark, which was tossed upon the waves of the deluge; so the kernel of the new humanity, of the new creation, Christ and His Apostles, in the little ship.
– Richard Chenevix Trench
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