Imitation Of Christ Quotes

#1. Moral formation and the imitation of Christ are nothing new, even if their challenges must be taken up anew by each of us. The practices, disciplines, and virtues that shape good character have been part of the conversation in the Christian tradition for centuries.

David I. Smith

#2. For two people to commit themselves not simply to marriage, but to a lifetime of mutual love and submission in imitation of Christ is so astounding, so mysterious, it comes close to looking like Jesus' stubborn love for the church.

Rachel Held Evans

#3. In Boston terms I was everyone and no one, with no social investment, no social insecurity, sort of Imitation of Christ in one hand and The Education of Henry Adams in the other, and because I was part of nothing I could observe everything without having anything personal invested in the findings.

William Monahan

#4. Spiritual life flows out of union with Christ, not merely imitation of Christ.

Richard F. Lovelace

#5. One way for attaining Bhakti is by repeating the name of God a number of times. Mantras have effect: the mere repetition of words ... To obtain Bhakti, seek the company of holy men who have Bhakti, and read books like the Gita and the Imitation of Christ; always think of the attributes of God.

Swami Vivekananda

#6. But the one counsel he did give me is something that I will not easily forget: There are many beautiful mystical books written by the Christians. You should read St. Augustine's Confessions, and The Imitation of Christ

Thomas Merton

#7. I would not consider my spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ.

John Climacus

#8. It is not an "imitation of Christ" but its exact opposite: an assimilation of the Christ-image to his own self, which is the "true man."349 It is no longer an effort, an intentional straining after imitation, but rather an involuntary experience of the reality represented by the sacred legend. This

C. G. Jung

#9. The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

Joseph Campbell

#10. When the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his, then there are many ways and forms in which a man can be a Christian.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#11. Blessed be the Sunshine, for it will stem the flow of life's anxieties ... for a while at least

P.A.Davies

#12. If you're not creating, you're waiting.

Kevin Pollak

#13. You'll never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing.

Dale Carnegie

#14. At times, love is silent because of too much hurt or too much care. At all times,
love is the strongest voice you can always rely on.

Soar

#15. 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.

Florence Nightingale

#16. Jesus Christ is our example, worthy of imitation of love

Sunday Adelaja

#17. Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy; rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands interior conversion to love of God and neighbor, in imitation of Jesus Christ, who, dying on the cross, gave his entire self for us.

Pope Benedict XVI

#18. Stolen from someone. Like they stole everything. Occupied. I was occupied. I disappeared.

Jojo Moyes

#19. The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.

Richard Lovelace

#20. We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. Believe in God and in yourself and then success will not pass you by

Sunday Adelaja

#22. Be very careful that you are not giving yourself to a pale imitation of life with Christ - life about Christ, or life generally near to Christ.

Shauna Niequist

#23. If the church is to survive as a place where head and heart are equal partners in faith, then we will need to commit ourselves once again not to the worship of Christ, but to the imitation of Jesus. His invitation was not to believe, but to follow. (p. 145)

Robin R. Meyers

#24. There is no life apart from Christ. Perhaps the reason you are dissatisfied with life is because you've been seeking it apart from Him and all you have been getting is an imitation.

Grace Livingston Hill

#25. It's fun to be able to have a fun palate, and the way I say that, you think about it and it sounds funny, but it's true.

Joey Fatone