Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

The gospel of Jesus Christ is that penetrating light which shines through the darkness of our lives.

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

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.

The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.

It is grace at the beginning, and grace at the end. So that when you and I come to lie upon our death beds, the one thing that should comfort and help and strengthen us there is the thing that helped us in the beginning. Not what we have been, not what we have done, but the Grace of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. The Christian life starts with grace, it must continue with grace, it ends with grace. Grace wondrous grace. By the grace of God I am what I am. Yet not I, but the Grace of God which was with me.

Thoughtful men, with hearts craving the truth, have come to seek in the Catholic Church the road which leads with surety to eternal life. They have understood that they could not cleave to Jesus Christ as the Head of the Church if they did not belong to the Body of Jesus Christ which is the Church. Nor could they ever hope to possess in all its purity the faith of Jesus Christ if they were to reject its legitimate teaching authority entrusted to Peter and his successors.

As for me, my charter is Jesus Christ, the inviolable charter is His cross and His death and resurrection, and faith through Him.

You discover your identity and purpose through a relationship with Jesus Christ.

In the matchless gift of His Son, God has encircled the whole world with an atmosphere of grace as real as the air which circulates around the globe. All who chose to breathe this life-giving atmosphere will live and grow up to the stature of men and women in Christ Jesus.

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.

Do we so appreciate the marvelous salvation of Jesus Christ that we are our utmost for His highest?

Becoming a Christian is the work of a moment; being a Christian is the work of a lifetime.

Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.

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

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.

Standing at a Christian music festival in Asbury, Ky., in the spring of 1978, I gave my life to Jesus Christ, and that's changed everything.

If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging-home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend . . . ye may look death in the face with joy.

Our position in Christ Jesus is enhanced each time we help someone in trouble.

I finally discovered something - it's all about Jesus.

Being a Christian means renouncing ourselves, taking up the cross and carrying it with Jesus. There is no other way.

The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.

Baptism is not to be conferred on a man who is unwilling to give up his other sins, so neither should Baptism be given to one who is unwilling to renounce his unbelief. Nevertheless, each of them receives the Sacrament if it is conferred on him, although not unto salvation.

Baptism is the initial step of a faithful heart.

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

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.