Quotes about Christ

Christ all the seasons of the year, is dropping sweetness; if I had vessels I might fill them, but my old riven, holey, and running-out dish, even when I am at the well, can bring little away. Nothing but glory will make tight and fast our leaking and rifty30 vessels . . . How little of the sea can a child carry in his hand; as little do I take away of my great sea, my boundless and running-over Christ Jesus.

Let Christ's love bear most court in your soul, and that court will bear down the love of other things. Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.

Wants are my best riches, for I have these supplied by Christ.

No man getteth Christ with ill-will [on Christ's part]; no man cometh and is not welcome. No man cometh and rueth [regrets] his voyage. Letter 226

Christ is on both sides: he holdeth up, and throweth down, in one and the same act; he denieth the woman to be his, and is on her side to grace her, to believe that he is her's. Christ putteth his child away, and he desireth that his child should not be put away from him; he is for Jacob in his wrestling, and as if he were against him, saith, 'Let me alone.' Christ here doth both hold and draw, oppose and defend at once.

O, that we could put our treasure in Christ's hand, and give Him our gold to keep, and our crown.

Go where ye will, your soul shall not sleep sound but in Christ's bosom.

what can ail faith, seeing Christ suffereth Himself (with reverence to Him be it spoken) to be commanded by it; and Christ commandeth all things.

Venture through the thick of all things after Christ, and lose not your Master, Christ, in the throng of this great market.

God knoweth that ye are His own. Wrestle, fight, go forward, watch, fear, believe, pray; and then ye have all the infallible symptoms of one of the elect of Christ within you.

I am just like a man who hath nothing to pay his thousands of debt; all that can be gotten of him, is to seize upon his person. Except Christ would seize upon myself, and make the readiest payment that can be of my heart and love to Himself, I have no other thing to give Him.

Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.