Quotes about Christianity

We live under the new covenant. But the mark of that new covenant is not the absence of commands, but the blood-bought power to obey them.

The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. MARK 10:45

When you become a Christian—a disciple of Jesus—you do not become his helper. He becomes your helper. You do not become his benefactor. He becomes your benefactor. You do not become his servant. He becomes your servant. Jesus does not need your help; he commands your obedience and offers his help. Christmas. He came to serve, not to be served. He came to help us do everything he calls us to do.

Only the gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage. Destroy self-exaltation and increase confidence. Destroy the pushiness of self-assertion and deliver from the paralysis of self-doubt.

The cure for wimpy Christians is weighty doctrine!

No true Christian can endure in battling unrighteousness unless his heart is aflame with new spiritual affections, or passions.

God did not create the world to keep his glory invisible, and he did not re-create Christians to keep our passion for his glory invisible

Therefore everything that you enjoy in Christ - as a Christian, as a person who trusts Christ - is owing to the death of Christ.

For Jesus, the demand for joy is a way to live with suffering and to outlast suffering.

All sin comes from not putting supreme value on the glory of God—this is the very essence of sin.

Paul worked hard. He did not say that God's grace made his work unnecessary. He said God's grace made his work possible.

What does it mean to be a Christian? Charles Hodge, one of the great nineteenth-century Reformed theologians, sees the answer in this text: "It is being so constrained by a sense of the love of our divine Lord to us, that we consecrate our lives to him."6