Christ for the world, for the world needs Christ!
Eric Liddell
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Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
SUNDAY ADELAJA I am a fool for Christ...whose fool are you?
BROTHER ANDREW May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Go make your mark on the world. Be a world changer! Live bold for Christ no matter the cost.
CRYSTAL WOODMAN MILLER People relate Christ only with Christians. But actually Christ died for the sins of the world. All w...
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM We must manifest Jesus Christ to the world
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY What the world needs today more than anything else is an implicit faith in God, our Father, and in J...
HEBER J. GRANT We owe all to Jesus crucified. What is your life, my brethren, but the cross? Whence comes the bread...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON We owe all to Jesus crucified. What is your life, my brethren, but the cross? Whence comes the bread...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Lo, thou, my Love, art fair;
Myself have made thee so;
Yea, thou art fair indeed,
Whe...
WILLIAM BALDWIN Christ Is The Lamb Slain From The Foundation Of The World
SUNDAY ADELAJA Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.
SHERWOOD ANDERSON Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified
SHERWOOD ANDERSON Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simp...
LUCY LARCOM The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us g...
ANAïS NIN It's crazy isn't it?" She shook her head. "You have to believe it, but you hate it. I don't have to ...
KATHERINE PATERSON What determines our brotherhood is what that man is by reason of Christ. Our community with one anot...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Love is a vicarious principle. A mother suffers for and with her sick child, as a patriot suffers fo...
FULTON J. SHEEN Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconcili...
JOHN WESLEY Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that ''God was in Christ, reconci...
JOHN WESLEY The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people...
EZRA TAFT BENSON The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people...
EZRA TAFT BENSON When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the...
C. S. LEWIS The purpose of the Christian life is to reveal Jesus Christ to the world.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosper...
DAVID PLATT From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." Ladies and gentlemen, this is what Ch...
JEN STEPHENS In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to...
WALTER LANG Jesus' whole life was a lesson in Truth where the rubber meets the road."
~R. Alan Woods ...
R. ALAN WOODS Doing good does us good.
ARTHUR P. CIARAMICOLI Doing good induces others to reciprocate.
ARTHUR P. CIARAMICOLI If thou believest that Christ was crucified for the sins of the world, thou must with Him be crucifi...
JOHN ARNDT It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep...
SAINT IGNATIUS How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be ...
STEPHEN COVEY I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.
ANDREW MURRAY A kind word will never replace the conversation that God has prompted you to repeatedly have.
SHANNON L. ALDER The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing...
C.J. MAHANEY If the church is to survive as a place where head and heart are equal partners in faith, then we wil...
ROBIN R. MEYERS To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, ...
THOMAS MERTON There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.
JOHN BUNYAN Sometimes, when I am sad,
I am not sad for myself.
I am sad for the world,
I am sad ...
WORDIONS Are you ready for the rapture of the church
Are you ready for Heaven
Our Lord Jesus Christ...
DORIS IJEOMA BASIL The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is ...
HAROLD B. LEE It doesn't matter if the world is pulling you down. With Christ, you have everything.
NICK JONAS If you are a follower of Jesus Christ , then the world around you will also be subdued
SUNDAY ADELAJA The pagan world is still trying to put its stamp of conformity on every follower of Jesus Christ. Ev...
BILLY GRAHAM Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
ERBLIN VUKAJ If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar...
APURVA GAGLANI It's hard when you have things but lose them, it's even harder when you feel that you're being left ...
GARY F EVANS... Starting today, must forget what gone yesterday,appreciate what remains today & look forward what ca...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA call it chicken salad
SARAH DESSEN Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and s...
SARAH DESSEN But when does flesh receive the bread which He calls His flesh? The faithful know and receive the Bo...
ST. AUGUSTINE Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for ju...
N.T. WRIGHT Christ commands his people to love their enemies, because if not, that would rule out pretty much th...
CRISS JAMI To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which ...
HENRY DRUMMOND Only the favor of God can help us find fulfillment as we reveal Jesus Christ to this world.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Life goals and changing the world...You've got to start small. You can not change the world unless y...
ANGIE KARAN An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the...
DAVID A. BEDNAR We have a message about Jesus Christ for you. Do you believe in Jesus Christ?
JESUS CHRIST The Lord seeks to establish status quo before His return. He is gathering His sheep, His birds, His ...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN -SENIOR LEGAL CONSULTANT & AUTHOR Christ is the meritorious cause of the bestowing of those good gifts, faith and constancy unto marty...
JOHN OWEN Now, for what sins he made satisfaction, for them the justice of God is satisfied; which surely is n...
JOHN OWEN It's on the top of a hill and that's our vision, to reach the nations and the world through Christ.
DORIS TAYLOR God lives. I know that He lives. I know that Jesus is the Christ and the Redeemer of the world.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ
within me, Christ beneath me, Christ a...
CATESBY PAGET Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ ab...
SAINT PATRICK Your soul was bought for a price far greater than the world on the cross; everything Satan offers yo...
FELIX WANTANG The glory of the cross is bound up with the effectiveness of its accomplishment.
JOHN MURRAY There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can sati...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not t...
CARYLL HOUSELANDER Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?
LEONARD RAVENHILL I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, tha...
MOTHER THERESA I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, tha...
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA Those in the West who have adopted Christ as their own should remember that he was an Oriental. Love...
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA The rosary is a spiritual vessel Mary uses to evangelize the life and dead of Jesus Christ to the wh...
ADRIANA MEDINA To be in Christ -- that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you -- that is sanctification!
W. IAN THOMAS In confession occurs the breakthrough of the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want t...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The first thing the Cross does is cross out the world's word by a Wholly-Other Word, a Word that the...
HANS URS VON BALTHASAR Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be Hi...
FULTON J. SHEEN Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 But when does flesh receive the bread which He ...
ST. AUGUSTINE We, according to the Scriptures, plainly believe that Christ hath, by his righteousness, merited for...
JOHN OWEN And, therefore, seeing he doth not intercede and pray for every one, he did not die for every one.
JOHN OWEN Arminians pretend, very speciously, that Christ died for all men, yet, in effect, they make him die ...
JOHN OWEN I cannot conceive an intention in God that Christ should satisfy his justice for the sin of them tha...
JOHN OWEN Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Chri...
MARTIN LUTHER The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, ...
JOHN PIPER When you're a kid, they tell you it's all "Grow up, Get a job. Get married. Get a house, Have a kid....
~DOCTOR WHO The world is more than the sum of its suffering.
DEEPAK CHOPRA There's a direct correlation between faith in the righteousness of Christ and zeal in the cause of C...
JERRY BRIDGES Our work in the world calls for many hands at the wheel. Planet earth is crying out in pain, and Chr...
ERWIN K. THOMAS The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever s...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I do not know you, my friends, not individually, most of you, but this is the wonderful thing about ...
D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it ...
A.W. TOZER The death of Christ is their meritorious cause; the Spirit of God and his effectual grace their effi...
JOHN OWEN The greatest source of security our children have in this world is a God-honoring, Christ-centered m...
VODDIE T. BAUCHAM JR. A love lust for war ends in death...
PHILIP T. M. Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.
DAVID WILKERSON Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering – for us. ...
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ERIC HOFFER We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
ERIC HOFFER You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory o...
ERIC BURDON If you think you can do it, you can.
ERIC LINDROS Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and...
ERIC HOFFER Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about o...
ERIC HOFFER The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine h...
ERIC HOFFER Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
GOLNIK ERIC We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
ERIC HOFFER There is perhaps no more reliable indicator of a society's ripeness for a mass movement than the pre...
ERIC HOFFER The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword an...
ERIC HOFFER We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every...
ERIC HOFFER Competing with an other is exhilarating, challenging, and healthy. That is what Games are for. When...
ERIC PARSLOW A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-...
ERIC HOFFER Absence of communication between necessarily linked parties ensures eventual conflict.
ERIC PARSLOW The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding.
ERIC PARSLOW To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
ERIC HOFFER