#christ

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#believing #christ #earthly #enjoyments #farewell

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#christ #disposition #jesus #jesus christ #manifested

Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#apostle #christ #ever #faith #genuine

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#angels #christ #him #human #human nature

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#atmosphere #expectancy #miracles

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#life #living #philosophy #process #speculation

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#better #christianity #church #end #himself

There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was. ↗

— Jack Vance

#called #christopher #had #i #i remember

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#christian world #condition #epistles #new #new testament

The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#more #others #past #perhaps #though