Jim Burns Quotes

A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

I want to be a Christian like Christ - loving and accepting of other people.

I want to live my life the way Jesus does - I want to love people.

My parents were crazy. They just wanted to do everything they could for their kids.

Thankful to have my daughters love the Lord with all their heart.

At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God's own love and concern.

I have been able to be just a good light to people and just share His love. I wake up every day and [try to] honor God in everything that I do and I may fall short sometimes, but all I want to do is love Him.

... if, to me, to live is Christ (Phil. 1:21), truly my words ought to be about Christ, my every thought and deed ought to depend upon His commandments, and my soul to be fashioned after His.

CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.

The Simple Path Silence is Prayer Prayer is Faith Faith is Love Love is Service The Fruit of Service is Peace

If we would truly seek to be more like our Savior and Master, learning to love as He loves should be our highest goal

People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.

We complicate prayer as we complicate many things. It is to love Jesus with undivided love-for you, for me, for all of us. And that undivided love is put into action when we do as Jesus said, love as I have loved you

You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.

I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.

Unceasing prayer is the unbroken union of the soul with God, so that life from God flows into our life; and from our life, purity and holiness flow back to God.

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

The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.

One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.

As you pray and serve others, your knowledge that you are a child of God and your feelings about Him will grow.

It's easy to talk about how much you love God, but loving others reveals how much you truly do.

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.