Quotes About Christlikeness

#1. Holiness is the object of our new creation. We are born again so that we may grow up into Christlikeness.

J.I. Packer

#2. Christlikeness is not produced by imitation, but by inhabitation.

Rick Warren

#3. Patience is part of true Christlikeness, something we so often admire in others without demanding it of ourselves.

Billy Graham

#4. Therefore, let us put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering; and let us prove our Christlikeness not only in our zeal for saving the lost but also in our relationships with others - forbearing and forgiving one another, even as the Lord forgave us. Let

Andrew Murray

#5. You can believe in Christ and not reflect Christlikeness

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Christlikeness means to live and act as Christ lived and acted.

Jim George

#7. Genuine holiness is genuine Christlikeness, and genuine Christlikeness is genuine humanness - the only genuine humanness there is.

J.I. Packer

#8. Christlikeness is your eventual destination, but your journey will last a lifetime.

Rick Warren

#9. But if believers are to grow in Christlikeness, they must be continually filled with the Spirit - allowing His power to permeate their lives so that all they think, say, and do reflects His divine presence.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#10. Every Christian has a capacity for the most magnificent Christlikeness. Yet, every Christian also has the potential to commit the most disgusting and horrible acts of the flesh.

Stephen Mansfield

#11. Christianity is more than just a belief; it is a life of discipline, a firm determination to live a life of prayer and contemplation, a life of self-denial and Christlikeness.

Ramon M. Torres

#12. Now it is the blood of Jesus which saves, and it is the same blood which cleanses and sanctifies; and as we had to come lo Jesus to be plunged into the fountain, so we have to abide in Jesus by fellowship, to grow up into Christlikeness.

Abbott Eliot Kittredge

#13. Discipleship is developing a personal, lifelong, obedient relationship with Jesus Christ in which He transforms your character into Christlikeness; changes your values to Kingdom values; and involves you in His mission in the home, in the church, and in the world.

Avery T. Willis Jr.

#14. God's will for you is to make you more like Jesus. Christlikeness is your target, your goal, your vision, and the reason you were created. You are set apart to be like Jesus. That goal will take the rest of your life to accomplish." (Life Hacks, p.61)

Jon Morrison

#15. Christlikeness is a journey, not a destination. The joy is in the journey.

Charles R. Swindoll

#16. Christlikeness is possible, but not by merely working with Jesus or simply imitating his example. Only by knowing our position in Jesus can we begin to live like Jesus.

Kevin DeYoung

#17. The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God

J.I. Packer

#18. Our weaknesses are not as negative as we may believe. They make us rely upon God's grace and power for greater Christlikeness and ministry.

Paul Washer

#19. Manhood and Christlikeness are synonymous.

Edwin Louis Cole

#20. Men, if we are to serve our wives with a purposeful love that moves them steadily toward Christlikeness, we must be men of grace - men who revel in God's grace, speak of God's grace, model God's grace.

Larry McCall

#21. Without a passion to disciple believers to Christlikeness through the ministries of the church, the church will focus merely on perpetuating its programs, and the sheep will grow sickly and unfruitful.

Jim Berg

#22. God ... Please keep my eyes focused on the only target worth hitting - Christlikeness!

Johnny Hunt

#23. I'm always writing. It might be a bad song, but I'm always writing.

Phillip Phillips

#24. Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
...On the other hand, he SAID it.

Art Spiegelman

#25. Prayer is about steeping in the Spirit of a God so loving that He totally changes you.

Jared Brock

#26. Ours should be the love that asks not 'how little?' but, 'how much?' The love that delights to pour out everything upon the feet of our Beloved.

Amy Carmichael

#27. When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

A.W. Tozer

#28. And I had my first oyster. Now, this was a truly significant event. I remember it like I remember losing my virginity - and in many ways, more fondly. August

Anthony Bourdain

#29. Putting on Christ' ... is not one among many jobs a Christian has to do; and it is not a sort of special exercise for the top class. It is the whole of Christianity. Christianity offers nothing else at all.

C.S. Lewis

#30. The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.

Brennan Manning

#31. To give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.
g. to apportion farm lands and homesteads for these segregated persons where they would be taught to work under competent instructors for the period of their entire lives.

Margaret Sanger

#32. He put his cold hands on either side of my face and fixed his golden eyes on mine. Would you please tell me what you're thinking? Before I go mad?

Stephenie Meyer

#33. I think of art as a glue, a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show us the things we believe in and the things we celebrate; it has served to reinforce our relationship to each other.

Eric Fischl

#34. The preacher must have, bonds of a servant with the spirit of a king, a king in high, royal, independent bearing, with the simplicity and sweetness of a child.

E. M. Bounds

#35. I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans.

Janet Evanovich

#36. It's cold. You should come inside.

Sarah Dessen