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Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.
Charles Hodge

Church, Call, Shall

Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.
Charles Hodge

God, Sense, Office

Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ.
Charles Hodge

Tell, Earth, Church

The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.
Charles Hodge

While, Earth, Church

I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life.
Jennifer O'Neill

In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah.
Jack Schwartz

Accept, Church, Early

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.
John Nelson Darby

Poor, Since, Preferred

Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
John Nelson Darby

Forward, Nothing, Jesus

I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.
John Nelson Darby

God, Hold, Fast

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.
Mark Hopkins

Society, Words, Revolution

But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
Victoria Jackson

Life, Happiness, Someone

I gave my life to Christ about 1991.
Lou Gramm

Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.
William Gurnall

May, Another, Saints

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.
Roland Allen

Men, Spiritual, Fact

Judas heard all Christ's sermons.
Thomas Goodwin

Heard, Sermons, Judas

Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.
John Strachan

Love, Death, Rather

Do excellent work for Christ. So that's my heart. It's always been. And I want to be the best I can be. I want to make a difference in my generation.
Ricky Skaggs

Work, Best, Heart

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.
Willem Dafoe

Great, Fun, Lie

In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.
Jim Bakker

Book, Him, Through

Whatever it is Christ said doesn't get a fair shake. There's not much written, it was done 150 years later, and it was used to create an empire. So can we get rid of all that and just see what the guy said?
Rickie Lee Jones

Done, Said, Whatever

I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.
Jane Grey

Put, Broken, Wine

What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.
George Carey

Making, Sure, Body

I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.
George Carey

Heart, Jesus, Church

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
Philip Schaff

Gratitude, Nothing, Himself

Feast of the Holy Innocents The most thrilling thing you can ever do is win someone to Christ. And it's contagious. Once you do it, you don't want to stop.
Luis Palau

Someone, Win, Once

In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ.
Kenneth Scott Latourette

Evil, Through, Victory

In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.
Kenneth Scott Latourette

Faith, After, Century

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?
Dennis Farina

Writing, Jesus, Two

The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ.
Richard G. Scott

Jesus, Church, Personally

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?
George Fox

Faith, Power, Why

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