Pope Francis Quotes

Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised.

Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.

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.

When you think about your relationship with Christ, it really just affects every aspect of your life. I think a lot of people try to segment off, like, 'This is church, so this is God, this is my daily life, this is my job,' but I think true faith is when it manifests itself in every single aspect of your life.

I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.

One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.

I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn't 'spiritual.' Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

When I realize I've come through so much, good and bad, because of my relationship with Christ, I can't hide that light within me.

Home Run portrays the church in its beauty--true life transformation through real and honest relationships with one another and with Jesus.

To be a Christian is not only to believe the teaching of Christ, and to practice it; it is not only to try to follow the pattern and example of Christ; it is to be so vitally related to Christ that His life and His power are working in us. It is to be "in Christ," it is for Christ to be in us.

May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all. May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service.

I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

By learning of Him, by believing in Him, by following Him, there is the capacity to become like Him.

Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ.

To be in Christ is the source of the Christian life; to be like Christ is the sum of his excellence; to be with Christ is the fullness of his joy.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there is something wrong with our concept of God and His involvement in our daily lives. Even the most dull and tedious days of our lives are ordained by God and ought to be used by us to glorify Him.

If I am to wholly follow the Lord Jesus Christ, I must forsake everything that is contrary to Him.

The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity.

Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

You can change. You can 'come unto Christ, and be perfected in him.'

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

When we realize what we were before Christ and what we deserved in that state, it further magnifies the enormity of the gospel for us.