“Without Christ, there is no Christianity.”
“There is coming a time when many disasters will come, saith the Lord! In my vision, the Lord said, Surely, they will look to Me to change things around. But I am looking for them to change their minds to come to Me and be saved, so I can be their God and Savior.”
“There are two ways to live the Christian life. You can live it either for the heart of Christ or from the heart of Christ. You can live for the smile of God or from it. For a new identity as a son or daughter of God or from it. For your union with Christ or from it. The battle of the Christian life is to bring your own heart into alignment with Christ’s, that is, getting up each morning and replacing your natural orphan mind-set with a mind-set of full and free adoption into the family of God through the work of Christ your older brother, who loved you and gave himself for you out of the overflowing fullness of his gracious heart.”
“The lion of Judah is the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“These are the days of the war, so rise up warriors of Christ! You, who are children of God, rise up! Take up your sword and fight a good fight! Our hope and our future are in Christ. Let that seed be planted upon your children. Our reward is not of this Earth, because the things of the world are temporary. Our reward is great; our reward is with our Father in heaven. This is the hope that we have in the future. So take a stand, finish strong in faith in Jesus. Put your hope in Jesus, for He holds our future.”
“Our children are the future of our family, our bloodline. And the only hope we can offer them to survive the evil days to come is to introduce Jesus. The hope of a Christian is anchored only in Jesus Christ.”
“I choose Christ.”
“Tu puñal de acero ha rasgado mi blanco pecho; pero he apoyado contra la herida a mi niño y lo he lavado con mi sangre caliente. Con eso la herida ha cicatrizado sin hierbas ni raíces. No he temido a la muerte; tampoco la temerá mi niño valiente”
“The true church is a community of Christ followers who obey His commands.”
“Only Christ can change your heart.”
“The unfortunate thing is that [Christ] left us alone, to carry on, whatever happens, even when we are lodged in that little-ease, knowing in turn what he knew, but incapable of doing what he did and dying like him.”
“Without any cost, come to Christ.”
“But I do not know much - except perhaps the One - as it is written thus: Nothing except Jesus. ...And yet just copy-cat expressions, wanna-be humble platitudes, try-hard lip service, and virtue-signalling slogans and such are not enough: because He must know me.”
“Woe, woe is me! That sin hath made so many madmen, seeking the fool s paradise, fire under ice, and some good and desirable things, without and apart from Christ. Christ, Christ, nothing but Christ can cool our love s burning languor. O thirsty love! Wilt thou set Christ, the well of life, to thy head, and drink thy fill? Drink and spare not; drink love and be drunken with Christ! Nay, alas! The distance betwixt us and Christ is a death. O, if we were clasped in other s arms! We should never twin again, except heaven twinned and sundered us; and that cannot be.”
“The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don t end up dead, it appears you have some explaining to do. The stark signifier of the human condition is one who spoke up for love and justice and was done to death for his pains. The traumatic truth of human history is a mutilated body. Those who do not see this dreadful image of a tortured innocent as the truth of history are likely to adopt some bright-eyed superstition such as the dream of untrammeled human progress, for which, as we shall see, Ditchkins is a full-blooded apologist. There are rationalist myths as well as religious ones. Indeed, many secular myths are degutted versions of sacred ones.”
“Our approach is to help people discover within them what it is that they need to do….Our role is to help people discover love. This was the message of Christ.”
“The most radical form of self-denial is to give up not cigarettes or whiskey but one s own body, an act which is traditionally known as martyrdom. The martyr yields up his or her most precious possession, but would prefer not to; the suicide, by contrast, is glad to be rid of a life that has become an unbearable burden. If Jesus wanted to die, the he was just another suicide, and his death was as worthless and futile as a suicide bomber s messy finale. Martyrs, as opposed to suicides, are those who place their deaths as the service of others. Even their dying is an act of love. Their deaths are such that they can bear fruit in the lives of others. This is true not only of those who die so that others may live (taking someone s place in the queue for the Nazi gas chambers, for example), but also of those who die in the defense of a principle which is potentially life-giving for others. The word martyr means witness ; and what he or she beas witness to is a principle without which it may not be worth living in the first place. In this sense, the martyr s death testifies to the value of life, not to its unimportance.”