Georg Brandes Quotes

There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Christ. That, hands down, blows away every joke I've ever written.

Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

It's like every day I'm born anew, without Jesus.

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

I cannot express to you how grateful I am that I am a Christian. Before I was a Christian, I went through a time in my life where I just didn't know why I was alive.

There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.

I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.

Why is it Christians are more confident in the Devil taking me more than Christ keeping me.

Boy, it is not fun suffering in this body of weak flesh, but Jesus is straightening out all my crooked places.

I'd like to thank Jesus. He's the one who changed my life.

But hey, if that’s too much to ask, tell them to just become Christians—you know, the people who get to go to heaven without having to commit to anything

When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience.

Our chaotic, confused world has no greater need than to hear the message of good news - the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Right now if this preacher died he would go to heaven. Not because I spent years in the jungles and the Andes Mountains of Peru. Not because of piety, devotion or bible study. Not because of denominational affiliation, baptism, or participation in the Lord’s supper. If I died right now, I would go to heaven because two thousand years ago the Son of God shed His blood for this wretched man. And that is my hope.

At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.

You can receive Christ into your heart, and he can bring joy, and a thrill, and glory such as you have never known - if you will give your life to him.

I'm going to use whatever God blesses me with as a platform to tell the world that God is for you. He proved it through sending Jesus down here to die for us and be resurrected. And for us that gives us second chances and it gives us hope, and so we spread that message everywhere.

A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.

Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.

The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.

Accept the risen Jesus into your life. Even if you have been far away, take a small step towards Him. He awaits you with open arms.