Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

Christianity is a power religion. Christ has the power to re-create men from the inside out, as every man who has ever met Him knows.

I have seen miracles in my time, my brothers and sisters. The greatest miracle of all, I believe, is the transformation that comes into the life of a man or a woman who accepts the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and tries to live it in his or her life.

As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ.

My thing is, get Jesus to come and live inside, and let Him start cleaning house.

No man can sincerely resolve to apply to his daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth without sensing a change in his own nature. The phrase, 'born again', has a deeper significance than many people attach to it. This changed feeling may be indescribable, but it is real.

We are born into God’s kingdom when we ask the Lord Jesus to come into our lives. But this is only the beginning.

The new creation is created after God in righteousness and true holiness. The new man is after God, like God, godlike, complete in Jesus Christ. The new creation is just like God. May I say it like this, "You are a little god on earth running around."

On the cross, Jesus won the right for believers to be born again back into the god-class. Adam was created, not subordinate to God, but as a god; he lost it, and in Christ we are taken back to the god-class.

When your life is changed by Jesus, you are a new creature. God not only changes what you do, He also changes what you want to do.

When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.

We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means.

If you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you already have the Holy Spirit living within you.

Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity; Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God

You can't change your past but you can change you destiny but deciding for Christ.

When Jesus died on the cross, so did your sin; when He rose from the dead, so did your HOPE.

Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.

The biggest difference between Jesus Christ and ethical and moral teachers who have been deified by man. Is that these moralists came to make bad people good. Jesus came to make dead people live!

To identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him.

If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.

If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come anywhere near. But if by being born again from above we know Him first as Savior, we know that He did not come to teach us only. He came to make us what He teaches we should be. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His way with us.

If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.

The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally by faith in the sin-forgiving death and hope-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Jesus raised the standard high so we would realize we couldn’t possibly do it without a savior.

The Gospel that represents Jesus Christ, not as a system of truth to be received into the mind like I should receive a system of philosophy, or astronomy, but it represents Him as a beal, living, mighty Saviour, able to save me now.

Because I am not yet living up to what Jesus expects me to be in those red letters in the Bible, I always define myself as somebody who is saved by God's grace and is on his way to becoming a Christian. (...) Being saved is trusting in what Christ did for us, but being Christian is dependent on the way we respond to what he did for us.