"It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified."
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"Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had."
"A truly humble person knows that they are nothing in themselves but they are everything in Christ."
"When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance."
"Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises."
"John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed."
"Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ."
"The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die."
"Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe."
"If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas."
"The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!"
"Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ."
"I don't reject Christ. I love Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ."
"When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world."
"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."
"We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ."
"a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ."
"Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life."
"Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.'"
"Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him."