Top 28 Quotes About Christ Likeness
#1. Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.
A.W. Tozer
#2. The resounding evidence of the Holy Spirit in a person's life is the unmistakable family likeness to Jesus Christ, and the freedom from everything which is not like Him. Are
Oswald Chambers
#3. The greatest gift we have ever received, and ever will or could receive, is the Spirit of God Himself. He enters the essence of our human form and changes us from within. He fills us with joy, love and peace. He subdues our passions and transforms our very being into the likeness of Christ.
David Paul Kirkpatrick
#4. This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.
Adam Clarke
#5. Father; as we run the race You set before us this year, let us run with endurance, not allowing anything to distract us from the goal of Christ-likeness.
Various
#6. Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act ... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
Dallas Willard
#7. O Godhead of glory and anguish!
O Christ shone through Magdalen's tears!
Thy sons on the universe languish
In iron bands strong as the spheres;
With virtue Thy likeness we cover,
With priestcraft we mock at Thy power,
And the meanest on earth is a lover,
As vile as a flower.
Aleister Crowley
#8. As you worry less about going through conflict and focus more on growing through conflict, you will enhance that process and experience the incomparable blessing of being conformed to the likeness of Christ.
Ken Sande
#9. But when He became incarnate, and was made man, He commenced afresh the long line of human beings, and furnished us, in a brief, comprehensive manner, with salvation; so that what we had lost in Adam - namely to be according to the image and likeness of God - that we might recover in Jesus Christ
Michelle A. Gonzalez
#10. Pain and love are not the 'either or' of life, being somehow mutually exclusive. Opposite though they may be, it is the energy of the friction between them that when harnessed, molds us into Christ-likeness.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#11. The Holy Ghost is no temporary gift, He abides with the saints. We have but to seek Him aright, and He will be found of us. He is jealous, but He is pitiful; if He leaves in anger, He returns in mercy. Condescending and tender, He does not weary of us, but awaits to be gracious still.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#12. Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists
Arundhati Roy
#13. There is no plateau in the Christian life. We are either growing closer to Christ's likeness or we are falling away.
Aimee Byrd
#14. We are not saved in order to be a blessing to other people
you will be that inevitably
but primarily we are saved in order to be conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ, God's Son.
Alan Redpath
#15. Christ-likeness cannot be self-efforted"
~R. Alan Woods [2007]
R. Alan Woods
#16. We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, "God is love " ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#17. We can't worry about who we don't have. We have to go into these games with the guys we have.
Terry Porter
#18. The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.
Charles Spurgeon
#19. Fellow-Christians, do let us study the Bible portrait of the humble man. And let us ask our brethren, and ask the world, whether they recognize in us the likeness to the original.
Andrew Murray
#20. As the flower turns to the sun, that the bright beams may aid in perfecting its beauty and symmetry, so should we turn to the Sun of Righteousness, that Heaven's light may shine upon us, that our character may be developed in to the likeness of Christ.
Ellen G. White
#21. I delight in M'Cheyne's remark, It is not so much great talents that God blesses, as great likeness to Christ.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#22. Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?
Rachel Caine
#23. I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.
Dorothy Day
#24. The best-looking Christian is the one growing by the Spirit into the likeness of Christ.
Kevin DeYoung
#25. If you have no share in the living Lord may God have mercy upon you! If you have no share in Christ's rising from the dead then you will not be raised up in the likeness of His glorified body. If you do not attain to that resurrection from among the dead then you must abide in death.
Charles Spurgeon
#26. God is not seeking a display of my Christ-likeness , but a manifestation of His Christ.
Watchman Nee
#27. God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.
Oswald Chambers
#28. Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
Helen Rowland