Christ

   Iamall atonce what Christ is, sincehewaswhat Iam, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond.

—Hopkins, SirAnthony

Now then we are ambassadors for Christ.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Esto peccator et pecca fortiter, sed fortius fide et gaude in Christo. Be a sinner and sin boldly, but more boldly believe and rejoice in Christ.

—Luther, Martin

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

—Cromwell, Oliver

He would certainly have despised Christ for being the son of a carpenter, if the NewTestament had not proved in time to be such a howling commercial success.

—Greene, (Henry) Graham

Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Quhen Alysaunder oure kyng wes dede, That Scotland led in lauche and le, Away wes sons of alle and brede, Off wyne and wax, of gamyn and gle; Oure gold wes changyd in to lede. Cryst, borne in to virgynyte, Succour Scotland, and remede, That stad is in perplexyte.

—Anonymous

Indeed, if one can say that Christ comes to the oppressed and the oppressed especially hear him, then it is women within these marginal groups who are often seen both as the oppressed of the oppressed and alsoas those particularly receptive to the gospel.

—Ruether, Rosemary Radford

While we were yet sinners,Christ died for us.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Christ follows Dionysus Phallic and ambrosial Made way for macerations; Caliban casts out Ariel.

—Pound, Ezra Loomis

   Would it have helped Ben Hur if Christ had not been crucified?

—Ustinov, Sir PeterAlexander

Westron winde, when wilt thou blow, The smalle raine downe can raine? Christ if my love were in my armes, And I in my bed againe.

—Anonymous

Lienot oneto another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

—Bible (NewTestament)

See amid the winter's snow, Born for us on earth below, See, the Lamb of God appears, Promised from eternal years! Hail thou ever-blesse'  d morn! Hail, redemption's happy dawn! Sing through all Jerusalem: Christ is born in Bethlehem!

—Caswall, Edward

One was left, too, with a gap in Christianity: the canonical gospels do not record that Christ laughed or played.Cana man be perfect if henever laughs or plays? Krishna's jokes may be vapid, but they bridge a gap.

—Forster, E(dward) M(organ)

That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Christ during His life upon earth was of all men the poorest, casting from Himall worldlyauthority.I deduce fromthese premises†thatthe Popeshould surrenderall temporal authority to the civil power and advise his clergy to do the same.

—Wycliffe,John

This ae nighte, this ae nighte, öEvery nighte and alle, Fire and fleet and candle-lighte, And Christe receive thy saule.

—Ballads

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

—Bible (NewTestament)

   Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come. Fair nature's eye, rise, rise, again, and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but Ayear, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente currite, noctis equi: The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. Oh, I'll leap up to my God!öWho pulls me down?ö See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul, half a drop, ah, my Christ.

—Marlowe, Christopher

   The Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was shed for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life: Drink this in remembrance that Christ's Blood was shed for thee, and be thankful.

—Book of Common Prayer

But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taughte, but first he folwed it him-selve.

—Chaucer, Geoffrey

Auctor nominis eius Christus,Tiberio imperitante, per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum, supplicio affectus erat. Christ, the leader of the sect, had been put to death by the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.

—Tacitus

While Socrates empties the cup of poison with unshaken soul,Christ exclaims,'If it is possible, let this cup pass from me'.Christ in this respect is the self- confession of human sensibility.

—Feuerbach, Ludwig

Signs are taken for wonders.'We would see a sign!' The word within the word, unable to speak a word, Swaddled with darkness. In the juvescence of the year Came Christ the tiger.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

In ancient shadows and twilights Where childhood had strayed, The world's great sorrows were born And its heroes were made. In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

—Russell, GeorgeWilliam pseudonym  Ó

And the softness of my body will be guarded by embrace By each button, hook, and lace. For the man who should loose me is dead, Fighting with the Duke in Flanders, In a pattern called a war. Christ! What are patterns for?

—Lowell, Amy

The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.

—Nightingale, Florence

Christ for myguardianship today: against poison, against burning, against drowning, against wounding, that there may come to me a multitude of rewards; Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ over me, Christ to right of me, Christ to left of me, Christ in lying down, Christ in sitting, Christ in rising up, Christ in the heart of every person who may thinkof me, Christ in the mouth of every person who may speak of me, Christ in every eye, which may look on me! Christ in every ear, which may hear me!

—St Patrick   5c

Crist wole we claym of him oure gentilleesse, Nat of oure eldres for hire old richesse.

—Chaucer, Geoffrey

But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have killed their Christ.

—Tennyson

Il n'y a jamais eu de royaume o  u' il y ait eu tant de guerres civiles que dans celui du Christ. No kingdom has ever been so divided by civil wars as that of Christ.

—Bre'  de et de

A good rider may often be thrown from his horse, And climb on once again to face forward his course, Which is how I went forward myself on my way, And come,Christ, and give me my true judgment day.

—Anonymous

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

—Bible (NewTestament)

We receive this Child into the Congregation of Christ's flock, and dosign him with thesign of the Cross, in token that hereafter he shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his life's end. Amen.

—Book of Common Prayer

For thefuture I cease,Deathapproaches with little delay, Since the dragons of Laune and Lane and Lee are destroyed; I'll follow the heroes far from the light of day, The princes myancestors followed before Christ died.

—O'Rahilly, Egan Gaelic name  Aodhaga¤  n OŁ   Rathaille

We can do worse than remember the principle which both gives us a firm Rock and leaves us the maximum elasticity for our mindsöHold to Christ, and for the rest be totally uncommitted.

—Butterfield, Sir Herbert

The Church's one foundation Is Jesus Christ, her Lord; She is his new creation By water and the word; From heaven he came and sought her To be his holy bride, With his own blood he bought her. And for her life he died.

—Stone, Samuel John

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried: He descended into hell;The third day he rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost;The holy Catholick Church;The Communion of Saints;The Forgiveness of sins;The Resurrection of the body, And the life everlasting. Amen.

—Book of Common Prayer

   Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.

—Barth, Karl

The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of his agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent and uncertain† But there can be no doubt as to the elements in the record that have evoked the best in human nature. The Mother, the Child and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self- forgetful, with his message of peace, love and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.

—Whitehead, Alfred North

How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

Must then a Christ perish in torment in everyage to save those that have no imagination?

—Shaw, George Bernard

Virginite¤ ,  mysticisme, me¤  lancolie! Trois mots inconnus, trois maladies nouvelles apporte¤  es par le Christ. Virginity, mysticism, melancholy! Three unknown words, three new illnesses brought by Christ.

—Gautier,The¤  ophile

I did say yes O at lightning and lashed rod; Thou heardst me truer than tongue confess Thy terror,O Christ,O God.

—Hopkins, SirAnthony

Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; 844 Ring in the Christ that is to be.

—Tennyson

And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come, And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth.

—Masefield,John Edward

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding inthefield, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shoneround about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of Davida Saviour, which is Christthe Lord. And thisshall be a sign unto you;Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying ina manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, theshepherdssaid onetoanother,Let usnowgo even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.

—Bible (NewTestament)

O slain and spent and sacrificed People, the grey-grown speechless Christ.

—Swinburne, Algernon Charles

While the South is hardly Christ-centred, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

—O'Connor, (Mary) Flannery

Ifelt my heart strangely warmed.I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation; and an assurance was given methat hehad taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.

—Wesley,John

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this gracegiven, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ.

—Bible (NewTestament)

To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honour his own words as if his God's.

—Tennyson

Let us pray for the whole state of Christ's Church militant here in earth.

—Book of Common Prayer

   Hear what comfortable words our Saviour Christ saith unto all that truly turn to him.

—Book of Common Prayer