Quotes about Christianity

At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection.

Every Christian has a choice between being humble or being humbled.

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; as God alone, he would not; Incarnate, he could and did.

Jesus himself, even in his obscurity, dreaded the gathering of crowds, and where possible avoided them. Everything in Christianity that matters is from individual to individual; collectivities belong to the Devil, and so easily respond to his persuasion. The Devil is a demagogue and sloganeer; Jesus was, and is, concerned with individual souls, with the Living Word. What he gives us is truth carried on the wings of love, not slogans carried on the thrust of power.

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

To mortify a sin is not utterly to kill, root it out, and destroy it, that it should have no more hold at all nor residence in our hearts. It is true this is that which is aimed at; but this is not in this life to be accomplished.

Christians can be confident about their growth in sanctification and eternal security because they are confident in the God who promises it.

The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.

Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature … He is a holy intelligent person.

The goal of the Christian life is not external conformity or mindless action, but a passionate love for God informed by the mind and embraced by the will.

for as gospel gifts are useless without attending unto gospel institutions, so gospel institutions are found to be fruitless and unsatisfactory without the attaining and exercising of gospel gifts.