receiving Christ Quotes

Forgiveness is not a one-time thing that happened the day you received Christ. It is an everyday thing, for the rest of your life.

There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable then unbelief. Faith is the saving grace and unbelief the damning sin. (Mark 16:16) ... Before Christ can be received, the heart must be emptied and opened: but men's heart's are full of self-righteousn ess and vain confidence (Rom 10:3).

Only God can give us a selfless love for others, as the Holy Spirit changes us from within. This is one reason we must receive Christ, for apart from His Spirit we can never be freed from the chains of selfishness, jealousy, and indifference. Will others see Christ's love in your life today?

As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.

Christ and his benefits go inseparably and undividedly... Many would willingly receive his privileges, who will not receive his person; but it cannot be; if we will have one, we must take the other too: Yea, we must accept his person first, and then his benefits: as it is in the marriage covenant, so it is here.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

It is not saving faith to confess Christ as true. Saving faith receives Christ as a Treasure.

The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.

We must learn from Mary, and we must imitate her unconditional readiness to receive Christ in her life.

The Spirit must therefore first take hold of us before we can live in Christ, and when he doth so, then we are enabled to exert that vital act of faith, whereby we receive Christ.