Top 100 In Christ Quotes
#1. Grace means primarily the free, forgiving love of God in Christ to sinners and the operation of that love in the lives of Christians.
A.M. Hunter
#2. The true Christian can nurture a trustful optimism, because he is certain of not walking alone. In sending us Jesus, the eternal Son made man, God has drawn near to each of us. In Christ he has become our travelling companion.
Pope John Paul II
#3. My favorite thing that God gives is grace. It is without performance, free in Christ.
Luci Swindoll
#4. Live in Christ, die in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death.
John Knox
#5. Even our struggles, our failures, and our suffering are redemptive in Christ. But there is blood involved. There is a cutting off and a cutting away that redemption demands.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#6. We do not put away our idols so that God will then accept us, but we put away our idols because God has accepted us in Christ
Gloria Furman
#7. God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#8. I think faith is the one common denominator between everything that goes on at the race track - a faith in Christ.
Kyle Petty
#9. the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
Anonymous
#10. For in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male or female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
Anonymous
#11. Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.
Timothy Keller
#12. God's great love in Christ - Christians are compelled to willing, joyful, urgent, faith-driven, grace-saturated, God-glorifying work on behalf of the poor.
David Platt
#13. Becoming "new" in Christ is a wonderful beginning, but it isn't the end of pain or problems in our lives. It is the beginning of our facing up to them. Being a Christian involves a lifetime of hard work, dedicated study, and difficult decisions.
Billy Graham
#14. Farewell best beloved, here at last I shall rest with thee, with thee in Christ I shall rise again'.(written on Prince Albert's and Queen Victorias's mausoleum)
Victoria Magazine
#15. If we can't "love the sinner; hate the sin" then how can we relate to ourselves? Love who we are in Christ but still hate the sin remaining.
Timothy Keller
#16. True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.
George Whitefield
#17. God is our Father and our God, but only in Christ Jesus.
Martin Luther
#18. To believe in Christ is to give your heart to Christ, which means not to affirm things about Christ, but it's like what you mean when you say, "I believe in my friend."
Frederick Buechner
#19. When we grieve over someone who has died in Christ, we are sorrowing not for them but for ourselves. Our grief isn't a sign of weak faith, but of great love.
Billy Graham
#20. Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:6-7).
Chris Hodges
#21. Our position in Christ Jesus is enhanced each time we help someone in trouble.
T. B. Joshua
#23. (3) Singing can help us use words to demonstrate and express our unity, which means singing songs that unite us instead of divide us, recognizing that musical creativity in the church has functional limits and that it is ultimately the gospel, not music, that unites us in Christ.
John Piper
#24. Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.
John Strachan
#25. We've done nothing to earn His love and can do nothing to forfeit it. His love in Christ is eternal and unconditional. Nothing can separate us from His love, as the apostle Paul put it so eloquently. Do we really believe what Paul says to us here?
Jerry Bridges
#26. God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
John Stott
#27. This is God's promise to us. In Christ, the not-rightness of the world is already defeated. Jesus's cry of "it is finished" from the cross was true and real. When things aren't all right now, take comfort in the fact that they will be, forever.
Tullian Tchividjian
#28. The church always has need for prayer. There are always some in her midst who are declining, or falling into open sin. There are lambs to be prayed for, that they may be carried in Christ's bosom: the strong, lest they grow presumptuous; and the weak, lest they become despairing.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#29. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. - 2Co 5:17 In
Chris White
#30. Guilt is not of God. We receive only a divine conviction with our shame swallowed up in Christ. Walk in truth and find freedom in His Grace!
Alisa Hope Wagner
#31. Now the church is not wood and stone, but the company of people who believe in Christ.
Martin Luther
#32. It was on the cross of Calvary that God, in Christ, dealt fully and finally with self, the nature from which all our sins flow.
Miles J. Stanford
#33. The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.
Tullian Tchividjian
#34. So long as we are adopted by God in Christ, we are destined for slaughter. If
John Calvin
#35. And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ's blood.
William Tyndale
#36. Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty ...
John Bunyan
#37. False self is an identity based on what you have, what you do, and what others think about you. In stark contrast to this is the true self in Christ, which is who we are before God and in God - Christ living in us, as Paul put it to the churches in Galatia
Basil Pennington
#38. Freedom in Christ allows you to control the desires that once controlled you.
LeCrae
#39. Only in Christ are all things in communion. He is the point of convergence of all hearts and beings and therefore the bridge and the shortest way from each to each.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#40. A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose whole comportment and whose activity have their root in the sentiment of gratitude.
Jacques Maritain
#41. In Christ God loved us, His elect and chosen, before the world began, and reserved us unto the knowledge of his Son and of His holy gospel.30
Steven J. Lawson
#42. The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.
Pope Francis
#43. Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven;' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it; ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ.
Saint Augustine
#44. Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and self-confidence . If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly fall; but having our hearts and our hopes in heaven, we shall be carried above all difficulties, and be enabled to lay hold of the prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus.
Matthew Henry
#45. 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.
A.W. Tozer
#46. Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#47. The only safe evidence that we are in Christ is a holy life. John
Jerry Bridges
#48. In Christ, the other is given as the neighbor. I encounter the other as one for whom Christ became human, was crucified, and resurrected, and this sets them free to be who they are.
Brian Gregor
#49. All we want in Christ, we shall find in Christ. If we want little, we shall find little. If we want much, we shall find much; but if, in utter helplessness, we cast our all on Christ, He will be to us the whole treasury of God.
Henry Benjamin Whipple
#50. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Anonymous
#51. Our thinking about who we are as Christians should not begin with what we can discover about ourselves by self-analysis. Rather, it begins with what God says about those who trust in Christ.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#52. If there is a single factor that makes spiritual direction effective as a change agency for the soul, it is this: spiritual direction holds our shame at bay long enough for us to see ourselves as God sees us in Christ.
Gary W. Moon
#53. Believing in Christ's resurrection therefore does not mean affirming a fact. It means being possessed by the life-giving Spirit and participating in the powers of the age to come.
Jurgen Moltmann
#54. That so-called faith in Christ which professes to release men from the obligation of obedience to God, is not faith, but presumption. "By grace are ye saved through faith." But "faith, if it hath not works, is dead." Ephesians 2:8; James 2:17.
Ellen G. White
#55. If you are in Christ, then you have the heavenly position of His authority and operate on this earth in His name as someone who is from above
Sunday Adelaja
#56. True Teachers must be Transparent, pointing others to deeper walks in Christ, and not to themselves.
Billy Witt
#57. Pride is always born of our insecurities. When we don't know who we are in Christ, we use pride to try to fill that void.
Craig Groeschel
#58. This is the sacrifice of Christians: we, being many, are one body in Christ. And this also is the sacrifice which the Church continually celebrates in the sacrament of the altar, known to the faithful, in which she teaches that she herself is offered in the offering she makes to God.
Augustine Of Hippo
#59. To be in Christ is to be a living exegesis of the narrative of Christ, a new performance of the original drama of exaltation following humiliation, of humiliation as the voluntary renunciation of rights and selfish gain in order to serve and obey.
Michael J. Gorman
#60. The purpose of Holy Scripture is not ultimately to make you smart, or make you relevant, or make you rich, or get you a job, or get you married, or take all your problems away, or tell you where to live. The aim is that you might be wise enough to put your faith in Christ and be saved.
Kevin DeYoung
#61. I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.
Mark Twain
#62. The more bitterness we taste in sin, the more sweetness we shall taste in Christ.
Thomas Watson
#63. You don't become a new person by changing your behavior; you discover who you are in Christ and your behavior changes accordingly
Graham Cooke
#64. How many people do you know believe they're going to heaven because, they're not trusting so much in Christ as they are the sincerity of the decision they made a long time ago?
Paul Washer
#65. After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.
Adoniram Judson
#66. According to the New Testament, the church is primarily a body of people who profess and give evidence that they have been saved by God's grace alone, for His glory alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
Mark Dever
#67. [As a young man] I sought thrills! I found them in Christ. I looked for something that would bring perfect joy! I found it in Christ. I looked for something that would bring pleasure and that would satisfy the deepest longing of my heart! I found it in Christ. And my life has never been the same.
Billy Graham
#68. Whenever you're working towards something greater than yourself, it's almost a selflessness that the Lord delights in when you're serving your teammate or your friend or your sister in Christ.
Tobin Heath
#69. Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child of God and belongs to Him. And in Christ, we are made right with God, we are His righteousness, and we have the power of Christ in us to live right.
Joyce Meyer
#70. In Christ we are invited to participate in the reality of God and the reality of the world at the same time, the one not without the other.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#72. I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
John Calvin
#73. Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.
Richard Baxter
#74. That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence.
Flannery O'Connor
#75. Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
Ann Voskamp
#76. We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
George Eliot
#77. My thesis is that all disciplines find their completion in Christ and cannot be properly understood apart from Christ.
William A. Dembski
#78. Why is sexual sin so hard to deal with? Because often sexual sin becomes a sin of identity. One goal of this book is to help you face your sin in Christ, know your status in Christ if you have committed your life to him, and reject any identity that Christ has not prepared for you.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#79. A truly humble person knows that they are nothing in themselves but they are everything in Christ.
Joyce Meyer
#80. I do believe in Christ, but I would not hold myself up as any paragon of virtue at all - far from it, really.
Michael Hintze
#81. It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God's law. They must cease to rely upon their own efforts for salvation, they must trust wholly in the merits of the promised Saviour, if they would be accepted of God.
Ellen G. White
#82. I realize now that what I was trying to do with the Armaghast data was offer the Church not a rebirth but only a transition to a false life such as these poor walking corpses inhabit. If the Church is meant to die, it must do so - but do so gloriously, in the full knowledge of its rebirth in Christ.
Dan Simmons
#83. For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#85. All Sacred Scriptures is but one book, and that one book is Christ, because all divine Scripture speaks of Christ, and all divine Scripture is fulfilled in Christ.
Hugh Of Saint-Victor
#86. Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.
Pope Benedict XVI
#87. We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.
R.C. Sproul
#88. The mountain of superstition has to be leveled for our people to taste a fresh breath of life in Christ Jesus.
Sunday Adelaja
#89. When we would consider the love of God in Christ, we are as one approaching the ocean: he casts a glance on the surface, but the depths he cannot sound. - R. C. C.
Alexander Strauch
#90. Neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
Rom 8
Anonymous
#91. The faith towards God in Christ must be sure and steadfast, that it may solace and make glad the conscience, and put it to rest. When a man has this certainty, he has overcome the serpent; but if he be doubtful of the doctrine, it is for him very dangerous to dispute with the devil.
Martin Luther
#92. You may think you find peace in Christ when you have no outward troubles, but is Christ your peace when the Assyrian comes into the land, when the enemy comes? ... Jesus Christ would be peace to the soul when the enemy comes into the city, and into your houses.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#93. In the same way, we who are clothed in Christ have great power and none greater than to love - without which, to quote Paul, the rest is nothing. But only in surrendering the old business suit do we see who we really are.
Ted Dekker
#94. When we succumb to temptation, we are failing to believe in that moment that everything we need, in Christ we already have.
Tullian Tchividjian
#95. We need to learn how to give a defense for our belief in Christ without getting defensive.
Beth Moore
#96. Having faith in Jesus Christ and in His Atonement means relying completely on Him - trusting in His infinite power, intelligence, and love. When we have faith in Christ, we trust the Lord enough to follow His commandments - even when we do not completely understand the reasons for them.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#97. in our spiritually dead condition, it is impossible to have the positive spiritual disposition required to have faith in Christ.
Vincent Cheung
#98. A practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, That man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!
Oswald Chambers
#99. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world.
Martin Luther
#100. You cannot be in Christ and be indifferent to the sin in your life.
Kevin DeYoung
