Quotes
Quotes about Christ
Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
Therefore, friends, As far as to the sepulchre of Christ-- Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross We are impressed and engaged to fight-- Fourthwith a power of English shall we levy, Whose arms were moulded in their mother's womb To chase these pagans in those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed For our advantage on the bitter cross.
Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.
His Christianity was muscular.
A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.
Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain."
Now it is not good for the Christian's health To hustle the Aryan brown, For the Christian riles and the Aryan smiles, And it weareth the Christian down. And the end of the fight is a tombstone white With the name of the late deceased-- And the epitaph drear: "A fool lies here Who tried to hustle the East."
What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.
Yes,--rather plunge me back in pagan night, And take my chance with Socrates for bliss, Than be the Christian of a faith like this, Which builds on heavenly cant its earthly sway, And in a convert mourns to lose a prey.
Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart.
You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled.
Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up Issue to me, that the contending kingdoms Of France and England, whose very shores look pale With envy of each other's happiness, May cease their hatred, and this dear conjunction Plant neighborhood and Christian-like accord In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.
O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!
The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.
O Lorenzo, If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife, Become a Christian and thy loving wife!
I never heard a passion so confused, So strange, outrageous, and so variable As the dog Jew did utter in the streets: 'My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter! Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!'
He tells me flatly there's no mercy for me in heaven because I am a Jew's daughter; and he says you are no good member of the commonwealth, for in converting Jews to Christians you raise the price of pork.
This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.
It is spoke as a Christians ought to speak.
A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion-- To pray for them that have done scathe to us.
Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has.
However important it may be to have a creed that is sound, or an emotion that is warm, the Christian life according to the Gospels is primarily determined by the direction of the will, the fixing of the desire, the habit of obedience, the faculty of decision. If you are determined in your purpose, if you have the will to do the Will, then with half a creed and less than half a pious ecstasy, you are at least in the line of the purpose of Jesus Christ; and as you will to do His will, may come some day to know the teaching.
