Foxy Writer Chick

On the day we mark the birth of the Christ child, Jesus of Nazareth, here are some of the best statements made by others about our Lord and Savior as well as some of Jesus’s own words about His life and His teachings:

“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

–C.S. Lewis

“Despite our efforts to keep him out, God intrudes. The life of Jesus is bracketed by two impossibilities: ‘a virgin’s womb and an empty tomb’. Jesus entered our world through a door marked,’No Entrance’ and left through a door marked ‘No Exit.'”

–Peter Larson

“Jesus of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander the Great, Caesar, Mohammed, and Napoleon; without science and learning, he shed more light on things human and divine than all philosophers and scholars combined; without the eloquence of school, he spoke such words of life as were never spoken before or since, and produced effects which lie beyond the reach of orator or poet; without writing a single line, he set more pens in motion, and furnished themes for more sermons, orations, discussions, learned volumes, works of art, and songs of praise than the whole army of great men of ancient and modern times.”

–Philip Schaff

“People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.”

–Florence Nightingale

The apostles went away rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Christ, that they were graced so far as to be disgraced for the name of Christ!

–Thomas Watson

 

Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme–salvation through faith in Christ.

–Max Lucado

“After Peter came to recognize his own inadequacy, his utter inability to fulfill his destiny apart from obedience to his only true responsibility, he became a rock-solid leader. As his story unfolds in the book of acts, we can clearly see that when Peter kept his eyes on Jesus and followed Him, others followed to. And they followed by the thousands. Needed today: more Peters.”

–Charles R. Swindoll

And so I wish you a Merry Christmas, Readers! Take up your cross and follow Him. And may God fill your hearts and minds with His peace that transcends all understanding. Amen.

 

xoxo,

 

Susan J. Anderson

Foxy Writer Chick

 

 

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http://quoteaddicts.com/i/2970

http://www.tentmaker.org/Quotes/jesus-christ.htm

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