Christ Quotations | Page 7

But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father.

the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?

It is grace, nothing but grace, that we are allowed to live in community with Christian brethren.

The more genuine and the deeper our community becomes, the more will everything else between us recede, the more clearly and purely will Jesus Christ and His work become the one and only thing that is vital between us.

The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate.