John Calvin Quotes

It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ's sufferings.

I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.

In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.

I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

Everywhere I go I find that people... both leaders and individuals... are asking one basic question, 'Is there any hope for the future?' My answer is the same, 'Yes, through Jesus Christ.'

There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into new ecological niches, yet preserving intact its story of grace, of love improbably triumphant.

We know that we are right in the same sense that the Christian knows that he has been saved and that Christ lives.

I'm not ashamed of the Gospel.

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

I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God's love for them in Christ.

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

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

I can't help but tell people of the greatest story ever told - God's love and our eternal life.

God lives. I know that He lives. I know that Jesus is the Christ and the Redeemer of the world.

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.