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1. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished anyone to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others.
2. They whom Jesus looks on mourn their misdeeds. St. Peter at first denied, yet wept not, for the Lord had not looked on him: St. Peter a second time denied, yet wept not, for the Lord hitherto had not looked on him: he denied a third time, and Jesus looked on him, and then he wept most bitterly.
3. Our Lord Jesus Christ, the word of God, of his boundless love, became what we are that he might make us what he himself is.
4. Wherever Jesus sits, there is the head of the table.
5. Those who die in Jesus live a larger, fuller, nobler life, by the very cessation of care, change, strife, and struggle.
6. He is the Author of the new creation; the Way, the Truth, and the Life; the Prophet, Priest, and King of regenerate humanity. He is Immanuel, God with us; the Eternal Word become flesh; very God and very man in one undivided person, the Saviour of the world.
7. The Person of Christ is to me the surest as well as the most sacred of all facts; as certain as my own personal existence; yea, even more so: for Christ lives in me, and He is the only valuable part of my existence. I am nothing without my Savior; I am all with Him, and would not exchange Him for the whole world.
8. What do ye think of the Son of Man? This is the religious question of the age.
9. Christ is our star of Hope. I want my death-bed to be under that star.
10. He used to talk to farmers about corn and mustard, wheat and tares, sheep and goats, and such like matters, all purely agricultural, and which they thoroughly understood. He used to talk to fishermen about matters widely different, and such as belonged to their craft---nets and fishes; to gardeners about vines and fig trees; to women about domestic matters, such as come within their province---kneading dough and sweeping houses. By means of these familiar figures He teaches lessons unheard of before---lessons of Divine wisdom, of supreme value, of sweet interest, of infinite love, and of eternal importance.
11. "The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God."
12. "I feel as if Jesus Christ died only yesterday."
13. "Will power does not change men. Time does not change men. Christ does."
14. "If He laid down His life for us, is it not the least we can do to lay down ours for Him? If He bore the cross and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?"
15. "I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world."
16. "He illuminates not only the object, but the faculty; doth not only open the mysteries of the kingdom, but opens blind eyes to behold them."
17. "Where was there ever a master that desired to be informed of the will of the slave, in order to execute it?
18. "Christ allows His money to be taken from Him, but never His sheep."
19. "The Gospel that represents Jesus Christ, not as a system of truth to be received, into the mind, as I should receive a system of philosophy, or astronomy, but it represents Him as a real, living, mighty Savior, able to save me now."
20. "If Christ cannot supersede the Law, then I am lost, and lost for ever."
21. "You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He had undertaken so costly a sacrifice for us. When His hands are pierced, when He is parched with fever, His tongue dried up like a shard of pottery, when His whole body is dissolved into the dust of death, you never hear a groan or a shriek that looks like Jesus is going back on His commitment."
22. "Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee."
23. "But herein is the excellency of this Divine Sun, that He illuminates not only the object, but the faculty; doth not only open the mysteries of His kingdom, but opens blind eyes to behold them."
24. "As the sun can be seen only by its own light, so Christ can be known only by His own Spirit."
25. "It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself."
26. "Rejoice, that the immortal God is born, so that mortal man may live in eternity."
27. "The Self-Existent comes into being, the Uncreated is created, that which cannot be contained is contained."
28. "His poverty was so great that He was born in another man's house, and buried in another man's tomb."
29. "As the Father useth this expression I AM, so also doth Christ, for it signifieth continuous being, irrespective of all time."
30. "Thus did wisdom publish itself in every place, upon every occasion; the well, the table, the highway-side,---every place was a pulpit, every occasion a text, and every good lesson a sermon."
31. "As the kernel of old humanity, Noah and his family, was once contained in the ark, which was tossed upon the waves of the deluge; so the kernel of the new humanity, of the new creation, Christ and His Apostles, in the little ship."
32. "The Jews looked upon a serpent to be freed from serpents; and we look upon the death of Christ to be delivered from death."
33. "We do not find that He used this power either for Himself or for His disciples, but He did for the multitude, whom He fed upon two occasions, in great numbers, with a few loaves."
34. "There were many who saw the babe, but did not see the salvation."
35. "Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching....not by words but by our example."
36. "Christ is wont to catch every man in the way of his own craft----magicians with a star, fishers with a fish."
37. "Christ will always accept the faith the puts its trust in Him."
38. "Christians believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God because He said so."
39. "Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again."
40. "Since He looked upon me, my heart is not my own. He hath run away to heaven with it."
41. "Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except through Jesus Christ."
42. "After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation."
43. "Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God."
44. "Christ is our temple, in whom by faith all believers meet."
45. "The soul stands at salute when He passes by."
46. "The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar."
47. "You are saved--seek to be like your Savior."
