Quotes about Christ
Just as a man does not desire food until he is hungry, so does he not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.
- GK Chesterton
The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
- Phillips Brooks
Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
- Oscar Wilde
Again and again the Church of Christ has been all but engulfed, as men might have deemed, in the billows; again and again the storm has been calmed by the Master, Who had seemed for awhile to sleep.
- Henry Parry Liddon
Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.
- JRR Tolkien
Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.
- John Donne
Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.
- John Donne
You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser.
- Charles Spurgeon
A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'
- Vance Havner