Quotes about Christ

The Liturgy is Christ praying.

Luther made a distinction between the inner and outer word: the latter is the Scripture and the former the revelation of Christ. Thus the Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid and the swaddling clothes in which Christ is wrapped. Or the Word of God is the water that comes to us through the pipes (the written witness).

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life.

If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated [a reference to baptism], live a happy life.

The evidence that a person has truly opened their life to Christ is continued fellowship with Christ.

An important day in a young person's life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.

You get one pass at life. That's all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back.

True consecration to Christ simplifies life, for it leaves the management to Him.

Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.

When I consider my ministry, I think of the world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ, nor of his will for my life.