Angela Merkel Quotes

Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.

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.

Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.

I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.

I don't necessarily go to church every week, but I am a Christian, and I believe in God and Jesus Christ.

I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.

I think God loves to hear little kids laugh at fart jokes. He didn't just make sunsets and bluebirds, He made hot babes. And dirty old men like me. That's the modest message I've set out to tell the world: you don't have to be Ned Flanders to be a Christian.

I'm a representative of something that's greater than myself. I'm not just representing myself or my country: I'm representing Christ and what He's done through me.

The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.

I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.

Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.

Only the #‎ gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage.

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

It's just that for so many people that I know, Christianity's this matter of... it has everything to do with morals. Christianity is a religion about morals. And they will even talk about Jesus. And they will say kids need to know about Jesus so they won't smoke, drink, or dance, or go with girls that do, and all that kind of thing. And I kinda go, 'That's not why people need to know about Jesus. The only reason - The only possible excuse for talking about Jesus is because we need a Savior.'

It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ.

We do not have to wait for the hereafter - it is now that we are one with Christ.

There is no way of salvation except through the cross of Christ.

Jesus said, "I am the way to heaven." I'm betting that he's not a liar. I'm betting that he told the truth.

God brought me to Himself at about the age of 4. My parents were devout believers and my Dad was in Bible College at the time. I remember hearing the gospel in Sunday School and I talked to my Mom about it one night before bed. It was clear to me that I was a sinner and I was not going to heaven if I died without accepting Jesus Christ and what He did on the cross for me. I was brought to Christ out of fear of going to hell. I didn't want to go there if I died and there was only one other choice in my mind as a 4 year old. I wanted to go to heaven. It was and is that simple.

Nothing but Christianity will give you the victory. Until a man believes in his heart that Jesus Christ is his Lord and Master... his course through life will be neither safe nor pleasant. My only regret is that I was so long blinded by my pleasures, my vices and pursuits, and the examples of others that I was kept fr...om seeing, admiring, and adoring the marvelous light of the gospel.

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.

Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.

Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.