Quotes about chris
christian desire way
Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way. Philip Yancey
christian jesus powerful
Perhaps the most powerful thing Christians can do to communicate to a skeptical world is to live fulfilled lives, exhibiting proof that Jesus' way truly leads to a life most abundant and most thirst-satisfying.
christian prayer struggle
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.
christian sin angry
Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.
christian grace way
... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.
christian church principles
We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.
christian jesus differences
Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.
christian religious brother
In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand eunuch servants at his command. "What happens when you do wrong?" his brother asks. "When I do wrong, someone else is punished," the boy emperor replies. To demonstrate, he breaks a jar, and one of the servants is beaten. In Christian theology, Jesus reversed that ancient pattern: when the servants erred, the King was punished. Grace is free only because the giver himself has borned the cost.
christmas jesus powerful
Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.
christian running confused
C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.
christian mother spiritual
For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do. Pope Gregory VII
christmas xmas heart
Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas. Pope John XXIII
christian school perfection
The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection.
christ crosses teach
From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us. Pope Francis
christian mother doe
The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan.
christian moments should
We cannot be part-time Christians! We should seek to live our faith at every moment of every day.
christian needs indifference
Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.
christian prayer dedication
The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer.
christian and-love violence
The true strength of the Christian is the power of truth and love, which leads to the renunciation of all violence. Faith and violence are incompatible.
christian commitment deeds
Are we ready to be Christians full-time, showing our commitment by word and deed?
christian love-is praying
Are you angry with someone? Pray for that person. That is what Christian love is.
christian letting-go servant-of-god
Christians are those who let God clothe them with goodness and mercy, with Christ, so as to become, like Christ, servants of God and others.
christian wall thinking
A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be - and not building bridges - is not Christian.
christian community promotion
Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor.
christian jesus prayer
For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus has become the icon for the commitment of Christian children who help the Church in her task of evangelization by prayer, sacrifice and gestures of solidarity....Thousands of children meet the needs of other children, driven by the love that the Son of God, become a child, brought to the earth. I say thanks to these little ones and I pray that they will always be missionaries. Pope Benedict XVI
christian stars queens
Their example gives witness to the fact that baptism commits Christians to participate boldly in the spread of the Kingdom of God, cooperating if necessary with the sacrifice of one's own life...This martyrdom of ordinary life is a particularly important witness in the secularized societies of our time. It is the peaceful battle of love that all Christians, like Paul, have to fight tirelessly; the race to spread the Gospel that commits us until death. May Mary, Queen of Martyrs and Star of Evangelization, help us and assist us in our daily witness.
christian commitment joy
The rediscovery of the value of one's baptism is the basis of the missionary commitment of every Christian, because we see in the Gospel that he who lets himself be fascinated by Christ cannot do without witnessing the joy of following in his footsteps... we understand even more that, in virtue of baptism, we have an inherent missionary vocation.
christian jesus profound
Our knowledge of Jesus is in need above all of a living experience: Another person's testimony is certainly important, as in general the whole of our Christian life begins with the proclamation that comes to us from one or several witnesses. But we ourselves must be personally involved in an intimate and profound relationship with Jesus.
christian ideas giving
One doesn't begin to be a Christian because of an ethical decision or a great idea, but rather because of an encounter with an event, with a Person, who gives new horizons to life, and with that, a decisive orientation.
christian philosophy heart
Christianity is not a new philosophy or new morality. We are Christians only if we encounter Christ... Only in this personal relationship with Christ, only in this encounter with the Risen One do we really become Christians... Therefore, let us pray to the Lord to enlighten us, so that, in our world, he will grant us the encounter with his presence, and thus give us a lively faith, an open heart, and great charity for all, capable of renewing the world.
christian jesus race
The proclamation and witness of the Gospel are the first service that Christians can offer every person and the whole human race, as they are called to communicate to all the love of God, who manifested himself fully in the only Redeemer of the world, Jesus Christ.
christian prayer commitment
...The baptized in their sense of mission, through prayer, the witness of life and Christian commitment in all its forms, so that all the faithful may become missionaries in the places where they live and that vocations will come forth to proclaim the Gospel to men who do not yet know it.
christian men humanity
The proclamation of the Gospel remains the primary service that the Church owes to humanity, to offer the salvation of Christ to the man of our time, who is in many ways humiliated and oppressed, and to orientate in a Christian way cultural, social, and ethical transformations that are unfolding in the world.