Quotes for The Church Year
Christian quotes for The Church Year — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.
It wasn't the nails that held Jesus to the cross. It was love.
Max Lucado
On the cross, God treated Jesus as if he had lived your life, so that God could treat you as if you had lived Jesus' life.
John MacArthur
Whoever knows Easter cannot despair.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.
Os Guinness
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.
Billy Graham
The ground is level at the foot of the cross.
Billy Graham
When you see him dying to make you his treasure, that will make him yours.
Tim Keller
Many people have wanted to be gods, but only one God wanted to be human.
Arno Backhaus
Christ did not come into the world so that we might comprehend him, but so that we might cling to him, that we might simply let ourselves be swept along into the tremendous event of the resurrection.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Coming home — that is what the child of Bethlehem wants to give to all who weep, watch, and wander on this earth.
Friedrich von Bodelschwingh
Jesus, what made you so small? Love!
Bernard of Clairvaux
When the Easter message dawns on us, we suddenly find ourselves surrounded by life, where before we had a future hedged in by worries.
Helmut Thielicke
As the hands of Jesus opened for the nails, the doors of heaven opened for you.
Max Lucado
Christmas means: God starts small, so that we can start something with him.
Tobi Wörner
The greatest day in human history was not when the first man walked on the moon, but when God's Son came to earth.
James Benson Irwin
God keeps his promise. Look for yourself. In the manger. He is there. Look for yourself. In the tomb. He is no longer there.
Max Lucado
Whoever has heard the Easter message can no longer walk around with a tragic face, leading the humorless existence of a person without hope.
Karl Barth
Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.
Watchman Nee
He was created by a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy, He the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.
Augustine of Hippo
Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; but the Father, for love (see Romans 8:32)!
Octavius Winslow
God's joy has passed through the poverty of the manger and the distress of the cross; therefore it is unconquerable, irrefutable.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is no tribunal so magnificent, no throne so stately, no show of triumph so distinguished, no chariot so elevated, as is the gibbet on which Christ hath subdued death and the devil.
John Calvin
As we face the cross, then, we can say to ourselves both, 'I did it, my sins sent him there,' and 'He did it, his love took him there.
John Stott
Advent and Christmas is like a keyhole through which a beam of light from home falls upon our dark earthly path.
Friedrich von Bodelschwingh
The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment.
Frederick Buechner
Man thinks he can become God. But infinitely greater than that is the fact that God thought of becoming human.
John Lennox
Each of his five wounds were lips speaking your name.
Peter Kreeft
Jesus’ first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread.
Henri Nouwen
The Word through whom all things were made is now the Word through whom all things are remade.
N.T. Wright
Our task in the present is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second.
N.T. Wright
The German theologian Jürgen Moltmann42 expresses in a single sentence the great span from Good Friday to Easter. It is, in fact, a summary of human history, past, present, and future: “God weeps with us so that we may someday laugh with him.
Philip Yancey
The other gods were strong, but Thou was weak. They rode, but Thou didst stumble to a throne. But to our wounds only God’s wounds can speak, And not a god has wounds but Thou alone.
Tim Keller
Jesus did not come with a sword in his hands; he came with nails in his hands. He did not come to bring judgment; he came to bear judgment.
Tim Keller
The essence of sin is we human beings substituting ourselves for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for us.
Tim Keller
We plough and we scatter the seed upon the land; yet growth and thriving lie in heaven's hand.
Matthias Claudius
The Son of God became man so that men might become children of God.
C.S. Lewis
When Christ died, he died for each of us individually, as though each of us were the only person in the world.
C.S. Lewis
I stand at your manger here, O Jesus, my life; I come, bringing and giving you what you have given me. Take it, it is my spirit and mind, heart, soul and courage, take it all and let it please you.
Paul Gerhardt
The cross. How strange that an instrument of torture remains, to this day, the symbol of hope.
Max Lucado
The stone was rolled away from the tomb, not to let Jesus out, but to let the world in.
Steven Lawson
People quoted here
Max Lucado, John MacArthur, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Os Guinness, Billy Graham, Tim Keller, Arno Backhaus, Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, Bernard of Clairvaux, Helmut Thielicke, Tobi Wörner, James Benson Irwin
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