Christ Like Quotes:

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

- Henry Drummond

topic: Ambition, Caring, Men, Christ Like

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

- Billy Graham

topic: Christian, Process, Grows, Christian Living, Instantaneous

He that would be conformed to Christ's image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Men, Would Be, Study, Christ Like

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: As quoted by William Rees-Mogg in "The Times", April 4, 2005.

topic: God, Faith, Christian, Anti Religious, Scientism

True Christianity is to manifest genuinely Christ-like behavior by dependence on the working of the Spirit of God within.

- Ray Stedman

topic: Spirit, Christianity, Behavior, Christ Like, True Christianity

Our Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn't mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity to draw out the good that is in others.

- Desmond Tutu

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Mean, Faults, Christ, Christ Like

When we look at the love of Christ, we make a wonderful discovery. Love is more a decision than an emotion! Christ-like love applauds good behavior. At the same time Christ-like love refuses to endorse misbehavior. Jesus loved His apostles, but He wasn't silent when they were faithless. Jesus loved the people in the temple, but He didn't sit still when they were hypocritical.

- Max Lucado

topic: Jesus, Love Is, Discovery, Good Behavior, Christ Like

There is nothing that will keep a person from Christ like a good opinion of himself.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Christ Like

Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like, for his heart was meek and he always thought of others. Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Beautiful, Art, Thoughtful, Thoughtfulness, Christ Like

Many of us place top priority not on becoming Christ like in the middle of our problems but on finding happiness.... I must firmly and consciously by an act of my will reject the goal of becoming happy and adopt the goal of becoming more like the Lord.

- Larry Crabb

source: Lawrence J. Crabb, Larry Crabb (1977). “Effective Biblical Counseling”, p.20, Zondervan

topic: Goal, Priorities, Finding Happiness, Christ Like

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds

- Paul the Apostle

topic: Bible, Submission To God, Priorities In Life, Worship You, Spiritual Renewal

My beliefs are that the truth is a truth until you organize it, and then it becomes a lie. I don't think that Jesus was teaching Christianity, Jesus was teaching kindness, love, concern, and peace. What I tell people is don't be Christian, be Christ-like. Don't be Buddhist, be Buddha-like.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Christian, Jesus, Buddhist, Christ Like

I think everybody needs healing. My understanding of human beings is that we were created in the image of God but we are all fallen, and Jesus died for us so that we can be redeemed. Every Christian is in a process of healing in some way. God's original creation was good, and in some ways fallen away from that. And in every area of our life we need to be healed and restored and to become more Christ-like.

- Nicky Gumbel

source: Source: www.theguardian.com

topic: Christian, Jesus, Healing, Redeemed, Christ Like

Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein; Christ-like is it for sin to grieve, God-like is it all sin to leave.

- Friedrich von Logau

source: "'Sin' ('From the Sinngedichte of Friedrich von Logau')". Translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. "Complete Poetical Works", www.bartleby.com. 1893.

topic: Fall, Men, Grieving, Christ Like, Sinning

Integrity is the core of our character.

- L. Lionel Kendrick

topic: Courage, Honesty, Integrity, Weak Foundation, Christ Like

To become as perfect as a mortal being can become, we need to bring the mind, body, and spirit into total harmony...We must add to that harmony Christ like love and righteousness.

- Betty Eadie

topic: Faith, Perfect, Mind, Mind Body And Spirit, Christ Like

You go on being reincarnated until you reach the actual Truth. Heaven and Hell are just a state of mind. We are all here to become Christ-like. The actual world is an illusion.

- George Harrison

topic: Heaven, Mind, Goes On, Christ Like

I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.

- Kate Horsley

topic: Christian, Forgive Me, Forgiving, Christ Like, God Forgive Me

Just in proportion as a man becomes good, divine, Christ-like, he passes out of the region of theorizing, of system-building, and hireling service, into the region of beneficent activities. It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.

- Horace Mann

source: Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.199

topic: Men, Thinking, Christ, Christ Like

Christ taught an astonishing thing about physical death: not merely that it is an experience robbed of its terror but that as an experience it does not exist at all. To "sleep in Christ," like one that wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

- William C. Bryant

topic: Dream, Lying, Sleep, Christ Like, Pleasant Dreams

Let every preacher take note: Amid the frustrations and hardships of ministry, the most Christ-like thing is to stay focused on your calling, give thanks to God, and go on preaching the Gospel.

- Joel Beeke

topic: Christian, Frustration, Giving, Preaching The Gospel, Christ Like

Before we return to Heaven, our real home, we have an incredible opportunity on Earth to face challenges that will help us learn, grow and to become more Christ-like in the fruits of our spirit.

- Mary C. Neal

topic: God, Christian, Religious, Christ Like

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

- Arnold Bennett

topic: Art, Book, Reading, Christ Like

I try to be an example and live as Christ-like as I can.

- Kevin Ollie

topic: Trying, Example, Christ, Christ Like

If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.

- Booker T. Washington

topic: Christian, Men, Years, Christ Like

The dictionary definition of a Christian is one who follows Christ; kind, kindly, Christ-like. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation for good, with the right of secession. A Christian anarchist is therefore one who turns the other cheek, overturns the tables of the moneychangers, and does not need a cop to tell him how to behave. A Christian anarchist does not depend upon bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One-Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused, and dying world.

- Ammon Hennacy

source: Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.19, Wipf and Stock Publishers

topic: Christian, Confused, Men, Secession, Turn The Other Cheek

I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Pascal… like all great astronomers mathematicians of the past.

- Augustin-Louis Cauchy

topic: Christian, Believe, Mean, Christ Like, Copernicus

Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ, his death is gain.

- John Keble

topic: Triumph, Saint, Looks, Swerve, Christ Like

I always say, don't be a Christian, be Christ-like. Don't be a Muslim, be Mohammed-like. Be Buddha-like. Emulate these great spiritual Masters and what they were teaching.

- Wayne Dyer

source: "The Power of Intention with Dr. Wayne Dyer". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. September 1, 2004.

topic: Christian, Spiritual, Teaching, Spiritual Masters, Christ Like

As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist.

- Jan Hus

source: Jan Hus (1915). “De Ecclesia: The Church”

topic: Common, Christ, Pope, Christ Like, Antichrist

There are some heterosexuals that have heterosexual behavior that is appalling sexually, that is deviant and bad and not really moral and Christ-like and biblical. But those people are never questioned as to whether or not they're allowed to be a parent.

- Rosie O'Donnell

topic: Biblical, People, Parent, Christ Like, Deviants

They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.

- Aleister Crowley

source: "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 57, 1969.

topic: Passion, Patriotic, Storm, Moral Indignation, Christ Like

It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the oceans to Africa and the Americas and tortured and enslaved, raped, impoverished, and eradicated the peaceful, Christ-like people they found. And that the blueprint from which they worked, and still work, was the Bible.

- Alice Walker

topic: Wise, Ocean, Men, Healer, Christ Like

It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those who knew him, and Kinski himself, that he never recovered from Woyzeck. But what was the ultimate result? If you are the viewer of this film, Kinski's portrayal shocks your feelings out of the vault of intellectualizing or passive observing. He forces you to feel with him, to align yourself with your buried emotions. He outs your sensitivity. Is this not something Christ-like? It is, for my money. Kinski is the pure cure for the 21st-century disease - the numbness unto droning.

- Cintra Wilson

topic: Suicide, Numbness, Feelings, Christ Like, Portrayal