What determines our brotherhood is what that man is by reason of Christ. Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to both of us. This is true not merely at the beginning, as though in the course of time something else were to be added to our community; it remains so for all the future and to all eternity. I have community with others and I shall continue to have it only through Jesus Christ. The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and his work become the one and only thing that is vital between us. We have one another only through Christ, but through Christ we do have one another, wholly, for eternity.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know l... BLAISE PASCAL It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we w... WILLIAM BARCLAY May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It is not that God's help and presence must still be proved in our life; rather God's presence and h... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER To love one another as He loves us, is the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. For it is love that ki... TED ROBERTS Feast of James the Apostle It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be proved... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER A happy and a glorious Easter will this one be to all of us who get a new vision of the risen Christ... THEODORE LEDYARD CUYLER [Jesus] stands between us and God, and for that very reason he stands between us and all other men a... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER It is the same with priestly ordination. In silence, through the sacrament of Holy Orders, a man bec... ROBERT SARAH You have the fruit of the spirit in you, because when Christ comes in you everything he is and has c... JOYCE MEYER The only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our consc... JOHN PIPER The one help we all need is given to us freely though the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Having faith in... DIETER F. UCHTDORF When the challenges of mortality come, and they come for all of us, it may seem hard to have faith a... ROBERT BEVERLY HALE It is not good for us to trust in our merits, in our virtues or our righteousness; but only in God... JOHN WYCLIFFE For in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. As many of you as were baptized into ... ANONYMOUS The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are... JOYCE MEYER If we are going to persevere as committed disciples of Jesus Christ over the course of our lives, we... JERRY BRIDGES Christ came... in a purpose, ... to manifest himself in the Christian Religion, to all the nations o... JOHN DONNE The gospel of Jesus Christ is good news, glad tidings, and much more. It is the message of salvation... DIETER F. UCHTDORF God our Heavenly Father knows us by name. Jesus Christ lives; He is the Messiah. He loves us. The At... DIETER F. UCHTDORF By giving us control, our new technologies tend to enhance existing idols in our lives. Instead of b... TIM CHALLIES For the rest of mankind to be with Christ means death, but for Christians it is a means of grace. Ba... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER In fact, my relationship to myself must be at all times a mediated one: I can only live my life thro... ROUSAS JOHN RUSHDOONY This is our great need, to be more like Christ, that His likeness may be seen in our lives; and this... G. T. MANLEY Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be suffi... RAVI ZACHARIAS Unfortunately, the ten-cent-store Jesus being preached now by many men is not the Jesus that will co... A.W. TOZER Whatever may be our differences of colour, culture, and class, the unity that is ours in Christ is g... AMBROSE REEVES Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except throug... BLAISE PASCAL Grace is a much more accurate word to use when dealing with the state of human existence. God gives ... MONICA JOHNSON To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, ... THOMAS MERTON I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, / Even when we were dead in... BIBLE Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the... HENRY DRUMMOND It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and ackno... JOHN CALVIN Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, / To the saints and ... BIBLE There is no more confused message that you and I could give to a lost and dying world than to live i... JOE FOCHT You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Chri... JOHN PIPER The love, support, and respect the members of the theater community have for one another is unparall... MONICA RAYMUND What the world needs today more than anything else is an implicit faith in God, our Father, and in J... HEBER J. GRANT Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." Ladies and gentlemen, this is what Ch... JEN STEPHENS We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Even the Bible itself is interpreted and understood in various ways, and so always becomes the cente... KOKICHI KUROSAKI The work of Christ on the cross did not influence God to love us, did not increase that love by one ... A.W. TOZER Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330 The cross is laid on every Christian... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for ... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Many people have... CHARLES GORE People relate Christ only with Christians. But actually Christ died for the sins of the world. All w... JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM We are just so thankful that Christ does not measure us by what we do. God is not measuring us by th... BEN ZOBRIST Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to ... JOYCE MEYER No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing ... OSWALD CHAMBERS But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, mu... BIBLE There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves ... THOMAS S. MONSON There's a direct correlation between faith in the righteousness of Christ and zeal in the cause of C... JERRY BRIDGES This is simply one more in a string of defeats for the radical homosexual agenda in the greater Char... REV. FLIP BENHAM I have had but one passion, and I have lived for it - the absorbingly arduous yet glorious work of p... JOHN HENRY JOWETT God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c... JOHN PIPER Who can redeem us from our sins? ONLY the Saviour, Jesus Christ. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way. HENRY HON God is far away only from them that have never come to Him through Jesus Christ PST ADELAJA SUNDAY This insensibility of ours is a bad symptom. For one thing, it implies that we have no spiritual amb... A. J. GOSSIP Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and com... GORDON B. HINCKLEY There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carr... CHARLES STANLEY Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery; with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and mis... BLAISE PASCAL Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885 We... A. J. GOSSIP We have already had an amazing amount of support come from the community, but the only way our dream... JO VANDVER May we incorporate into our own lives the divine principles which he [Joseph Smith] so beautifully t... THOMAS S. MONSON The best definition of faith that I know is that it is reason grown courageous. Moreover, that is al... SIR WILFRED T. GRENFELL No work for grace. It can only be received through faith in Jesus Christ. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for al... L. LIONEL KENDRICK Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it ... MATTHEW HENRY Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it ... MATTHEW HENRY I still have a lot to learn about what the love of Christ is like - that it's not just knowledge... BEN ZOBRIST But this analogy with the members of the Trinity is very important for another reason, it warns us a... WAYNE A. GRUDEM We have the DNA of our Lord Jesus Christ. HERSCHEL WALKER Our Heavenly Father knows us and our circumstances and even what faces us in the future. His Beloved... HENRY B. EYRING By a man's reaction to Jesus Christ, that man stands revealed. By his reaction to Jesus Christ his h... WILLIAM BARCLAY All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strength... CRISS JAMI In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the t... EDWARD BACH We must have this spirit of wisdom and revelation of Christ and His Word if we are to grow. It is no... KENNETH E. HAGIN For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like... WILLIAM BARCLAY Whether right or wrong, it is my belief that Christian colleges place their emphasis not on that whi... JAMES C. DOBSON 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 Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians. SUNDAY ADELAJA It does not make a very great difference what side of Christ's work attracts us and appeals to us mo... JAMES HASTINGS RASHDALL A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave Jesus Christ in the central place in one's life. The... WILLIAM BARCLAY In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates o... C.S. LEWIS What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the me... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Barrie tells us how, in the little house at Thrums, they used to tiptoe to and fro when his mother w... A. J. GOSSIP But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was m... BONO Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Chri... MARTIN LUTHER One thing is needful; to know and abide in the Lord Jesus Christ. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA 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 Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as... MICHAEL HORTON To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not t... AMY CARMICHAEL How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be ... STEPHEN COVEY Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen. BIBLE Christ must be born from every soul, formed in every life. If we had a picture of Our Lady's persona... CARYLL HOUSELANDER The oneness in Jesus Christ crosses all boundaries and separations. 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DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the ... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Christ took upon himself this human form of ours. He became Man even as we are men. In his humanity ... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The cross always simultaneously means rejection, and that the disgrace of suffering is part of the c... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The cross is not the suffering tied to being natural existence, but the suffering tied to being Chri... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER For the rest of mankind to be with Christ means death, but for Christians it is a means of grace. Ba... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.' These men without possessions or power, thes... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again and again, the gift which must be as... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.' Not only do ... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything whi... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh ... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiratio... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegianc... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive o... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing u... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by lovin... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbour hostility against us, not those against whom ... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before a... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spir... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is alwa... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following cen... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER We shall be judged according to our works – this is why we are exhorted to do good works. The Bibl... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER It is only because he became like us that we can become like him. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER [God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehens... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER As Christians, we needn’t be at all ashamed of some impatience, longing, opposition to what is unn... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the sa... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard pe... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER In other times it may have been the business of Christianity to champion the equality of all men; it... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Life in a prison cell may well be compared to Advent; one waits, hopes, and does this, that, or the ... DIETRECH BONHOEFFER Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring. MARLENE DIETRICH Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him. MARLENE DIETRICH America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my hear... MARLENE DIETRICH The most dangerous thing for a branded product is low interest. DIETRICH MATESCHITZ It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. MARLENE DIETRICH I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with mu... MARLENE DIETRICH To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can... MARLENE DIETRICH Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like ... MARLENE DIETRICH A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an ... MARLENE DIETRICH There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you we... MARLENE DIETRICH Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. MARLENE DIETRICH Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs. MARLENE DIETRICH Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us,... MARLENE DIETRICH Sleeping alone, except under doctor's orders, does much harm. Children will tell you how lonely it i... MARLENE DIETRICH A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the... MARLENE DIETRICH The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. MARLENE DIETRICH Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring. MARLENE DIETRICH Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub w... MARLENE DIETRICH Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. MARLENE DIETRICH I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with mu... MARLENE DIETRICH In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact. MARLENE DIETRICH The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with be... MARLENE DIETRICH Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw thems... MARLENE DIETRICH