Christ

I doubt whether Christ should be brought into the technical details of policy towards Germany, such as dismantling, because I do not pretend to know what his views would have been on this issue.

Lord Vansittart: letter to the Manchester Guardian Autumn 1949

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...For from the hour of my birth, to my death on the cross; I was not without suffering or grief. I suffered great want of things temporal. I often heard many complaints... etc.

Thomas A Kempis: Imitation of Christ Book 4

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Real confrontation, decision and action in the areas of modern life which matter at the moment occur where people open themselves to the real issues involved. For the Christian one of the elements in every situation is the living Christ.

John Vincent: Here I Stand

Christ

He who prayed for the fickle Peter still lives to strengthen us against temptation to keep our faith from failing. The work which Jesus did on earth goes on in the eternal order. He is active now in bringing into the world the fruits of his redeeming love, and his death and resurrection have permanently changed the balance of spiritual forces in the universe.

Gordon S. Wakefield: The Life of the Spirit Today

Christ

If Christ is a man,
And only a man I say,
That of all mankind I will cleave to him,
And to him I will cleave away.

If Jesus Christ is a God,
And the only God, I swear
I will follow him through heaven and hell
The earth, the sea and the air.

Christ is the stooping down of God, the arm of God on which we can lean; the heart of God of which we can feel the sympathy; the eye of God of which we can bear the glance; the voice of God which is music, melody and peace.

Richard Watson Gilder

Christ

When we have truly found Christ we can go through the world alone.

Andrew A. Bonar: Heavenly Springs

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To one of his officers on his island prison: “I am a great failure; but Jesus the carpenter of Nazareth is a world conqueror.”

Napoleon; Dickie: Fellowship of Youth

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Schweitzer also asserts: “To me, however, Jesus remains what he was. Not for a single minute have I had to struggle for my conviction that in Him is the supreme spiritual and religious authority.”

Albert Schweitzer: The Quest of the Historical Jesus quoted by
Oldham: Life is Commitment

Christ

Jesus means something to our world because a mighty spiritual force streams forth from him and flows through our time also. This fact can neither be shaken nor confirmed by any historical discovery. It is the solid foundation of Christianity.

Albert Schweitzer: The Quest of the Historical Jesus quoted
by Oldham: Life is Commitment

Christ

Not the historical Jesus but the spirit which goes forth from him and in the spirits of men strives for new influence and rule, is that which overcomes the world.

Albert Schweitzer: The Quest of the Historical Jesus

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Anyone who ventures to look the historical Jesus straight in the face and to listen for what he has to teach him in his powerful sayings, soon ceases to ask what this strange seeming Jesus can still be to him. He learns to know him as one who claims authority over him.

Albert Schweitzer: The Quest of the Historical Jesus

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He comes to us as one unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lake side, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: “Follow thou me!” and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal Himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship.

Albert Schweitzer: The Quest of the Historical Jesus