Quotes on Christian

That I am a monk and you are a layman is of no importance ... rather that we are both in the light of the Holy Spirit ... Acquire peace, and thousands around you will be saved.

To love Christ -means not to be a hireling, not to look upon a noble life as an enterprise or trade, but to be a true benefactor and to do everything only for the sake of love for God.

Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. _x000D_ The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, _x000D_ but sevenfold; _x000D_ they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.

But if Christians don’t get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

It is imperative that the entire Christian community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public moral witness presented by a militant atheism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres. The seriousness of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life.

Being a Christian means having love. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple.

The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.

So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.

In Christian engagement, the goal is to win the person _x000D_ who is of the other worldview - not to destroy the person.

What makes a Christian a Christian is not perfection but forgiveness.

I make a forceful and urgent call to the entire Catholic Church, and also to every Christian of other confessions, as well as to followers of every religion and to those brothers and sisters who do not believe: peace is a good which overcomes every barrier, because it belongs to all of humanity!

Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.

Let Christ turn your natural optimism into Christian hope, your energy into moral virtue, your good will into genuine self-sacrificin g love! This is the path you are called to take. This is the path to overcoming all that threatens hope, virtue and love in your lives and in your culture. In this way your youth will be a gift to Jesus and to the world.

A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on