Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Batterson

If Jesus were living in our culture, he would probably hang out in coffeehouses.

Mark Batterson

Jesus didn't die to make us safe. He died to make us dangerous.

Mark Batterson

Jesus didn't die to make us safe. He died to make us dangerous! Faithfulness isn't holding the fort. It's storming the gates of hell with the light and love of Jesus Christ.

Mark Batterson

If the kingdom of God had departments, we’d want to work in research and development. We felt like Jesus didn’t hang out at the synagogue, he hung out at wells. Coffeehouses are postmodern wells. Let’s not wait for people to come to us, let’s go to them.

Mark Batterson

Jesus didn’t die to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous. Faithfulness is not holding the fort. It’s storming the gates of hell. The will of God is not an insurance plan. It’s a daring plan. The complete surrender of your life to the cause of Christ isn’t radical. It’s normal. It’s time to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. It’s time to go all in and all out for the All in All. Pack your coffin!

Mikhail Gorbachev

The socialist tradition....goes back to Jesus Christ, not (Karl) Marx.

Mitt Romney

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.

R. A. Torrey

We are not saved by denying self, or taking up our cross, or doing anything else, we are saved by simply believing in Jesus.

R. A. Torrey

Those who truly believe on Jesus Christ are saved from all fear.

R. A. Torrey

We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work, is not to get persons to join the church or to give up their bad habits or to do anything else than this, to accept Jesus Christ, as their Saviour.

R. C. Sproul

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

R. C. Sproul

The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain for injustice, it was Jesus. He was the only innocent man ever to be punished by God. If we stagger at the wrath of God, let us stagger at the Cross. Here is where our astonishment should be focused.

R. C. Sproul

There are only two ways that God’s justice can be satisfied with respect to your sin. Either you satisfy it or Christ satisfies it. You can satisfy it by being banished from God’s presence forever. Or you can accept the satisfaction that Jesus Christ has made.

R. C. Sproul

It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.

R. C. Sproul

God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus, that's why it is 'sola gratia,' by grace alone, that we are saved.

R. C. Sproul

The resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.

R. C. Sproul

The gospel of Jesus Christ must be defended in every generation. It is always the center of attack by the forces of evil.

R. C. Sproul

The atonement is a multifaceted event-Jesus is shown providing surety for our debt to God, mediating the enmity between us and God, and offering Himself as a substitute to suffer God's judgment in our place.

R. C. Sproul

I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.

R. C. Sproul

Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.

R. C. Sproul

The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.

R. C. Sproul

The rapture will not be secret but open and manifest. Its purpose will not be to whisk the elect away from the earth for a while until Christ returns for a 'second' Second Coming. The purpose of the rapture is to allow the saints to meet Jesus in the air as He returns and be included in His entourage during His triumphal descent from Heaven. His coming in this manner will be attended by the general resurrection, the final judgment, and the end of the world.

R. C. Sproul

Jesus' life was a storm of controversy. The apostles, like the prophets before them, could hardly go a day without controversy. Paul said that he debated daily in the marketplace. To avoid controversy is to avoid Christ. We can have peace, but it is a servile and carnal peace where truth is slain in the streets.

R. C. Sproul

The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We're saved by works, but they're not our own.

R. C. Sproul

Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus Christ. Yet even His love made people angry. His love was a perfect love, a transcendent and holy love, but HIs very love brought trauma to people. This kind of love is so majestic we can't stand it.

R. C. Sproul

Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

R. C. Sproul

Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.

R. C. Sproul

The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.

R. C. Sproul

Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?

Pope Paul VI

Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the Living Heart of each of our parishes

Kinky Friedman

They probably would've taken Jesus if he hadn't been nailed down.

Oprah Winfrey

I was like you are. I thought Jesus came and died on the cross. Jesus' being here was about his death and dying on the cross but it really was about him coming to show us how to do it. To show us the Christ-consciousness that he had and that conciousness abides in all of us. That's what I got. That's what I got.

Margaret Atwood

The heart of Jesus glowed, because it was holy. Holy things glowed in general.