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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour. -- Walter Martin
That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due. -- Charles Inglis
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. -- Christopher Columbus
The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual. -- Charles Hodge
O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship. -- Thomas Ken
I don't have a saviour or a royal family. -- John Malkovich
Let us daily strive to copy our Saviour's humility. -- J. C. Ryle
Is Jesus a Saviour who saves you, or is he an assistant who helps you save yourself? -- Darrin Patrick
To win men to acceptance of Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord is the only reason Christians are left in this world. -- R. A. Torrey
You have been saying much about Dr. Carey and his work. When I am gone, say nothing about Dr. Carey; speak about Dr. Carey's Saviour. -- William Carey
Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important. -- Elle Macpherson
If in the sight of God you cannot say you are sure that you have a special call to stay at home, why are you disobeying the Saviour's plain command to go? -- Hudson Taylor
We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion. -- Phillips Brooks
Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of grass, and every atomie of earth To utter it like dew. -- Philip James Bailey
If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing to you. -- Charles Spurgeon
We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work, is not to get persons to join the church or to give up their bad habits or to do anything else than this, to accept Jesus Christ, as their Saviour. -- R. A. Torrey
Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor wi -- William Shakespeare
There prevails still a subtle form of legalism which would rob the Saviour of his crown of glory, earned by the cross, and would make of him a second Moses, offering us the stones of the law instead of the life-bread of the gospel. -- Geerhardus Vos
The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image. Not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Saviour. Not to fill your head with a collection of biblicalfacts but to transform your life. -- Howard G. Hendricks
This is my story, this is my song, praising my Saviour all the day long. -- Jerome Hines
The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them. -- John Strachan
For whoso dies for Christ, he is conqueror and is delivered from all misery and attains the eternal joy to which may it please our Saviour to bring us all. -- Jan Hus
Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men. -- John Strachan
Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don't need to search any further for security. -- Elisabeth Elliot
We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are not saviours. We are simply a tiny sign, among thousands of others, that love is possible, that the world is not condemned to a struggle between oppressors and oppressed, that class and racial warfare is not inevitable. -- Jean Vanier
Blessed be God, that we live in these latter times - the latter times of the reign of darkness and imposture. Great is our privilege, precious our opportunity, to cooperate with the Saviour in the blessed work of enlarging and establishing his kingdom throughout the world. -- Adoniram Judson
I like to hear a man dwell much on the same essentials of Christianity. For we have but one God, and one Christ, and one faith to preach; and I will not preach another Gospel to please men with variety, as if our Saviour and our Gospel had grown stale. -- Richard Baxter
When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite. -- Yann Martel
The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected. -- Samuel Johnson
God is the Saviour of all men. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We belong to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Where sin had brought men, love brought the Saviour. -- Arthur W. Pink
If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour. -- William Blake
The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves. -- Charles Spurgeon
Almighty Saviour, thank you for the gift of the moment. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The body of Our Saviour shat but Our Saviour shat not. -- William H. Gass
In the midst of the storm, my only anchor is the Saviour. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
To the Jews only, and not to the Gentiles, was a Saviour promised. -- Elias Hicks
Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart. -- Friedrich Schiller
Sun of my soul! Thou Saviour dear, It is not night if Thou be near. -- John Keble
How wide, how long, how deep is the love that Saviour extends to all humanity! -- Lailah Gifty Akita
O my Saviour, who am I, that Thou shouldst have so long awaited my repentance! -- Margaret Mary Alacoque
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Living forever is easy: be born again. (It's the relationship with your Saviour that's difficult) -- Abby Morel
The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation? -- Alexander MacLaren
Whenever you preach, be sure that you lift the Saviour high and lay the sinner low. -- John Wilmot
I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour. -- Thomas Chalmers
He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself. -- John Bunyan
Faith is the act of trust by which one being, a sinner, commits himself to another being, a Saviour. -- Horace Bushnell
I wish I could pass my life at the foot of the holy tabernacles in which our adorable Saviour dwells. -- Eugene de Mazenod
Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour. -- David Livingstone
Hark, the glad sound! The Saviour comes, The Saviour promised long; Let every heart exult with joy, And every voice be song! -- Philip Doddridge
The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul. -- Theodore Parker
When I look to my guiltiness, I see that my salvation is one of our Saviour's greatest miracles, either in heaven or earth. -- Samuel Rutherford
We are not saved by nations or by churches or by families, but as individuals, through a personal interest in a personal Saviour. -- John Angell James
Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour? -- John Quincy Adams
The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Teach us, Master, how to give All we have and are to Thee; Grant us, Saviour, while we live, Wholly, only Thine to be. -- Frances Ridley Havergal
Oh! lovely voices of the sky Which hymned the Saviour's birth, Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"? -- Felicia Hemans
The heavens declare the glory of God.The heavens declare the majesty King.The heavens declare the marvellous Lord.The heavens declare the mighty Saviour. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
What to my Saviour shall I giveWho freely hath done this for me?I'll serve him here whilst I shall liveAnd Loue him to Eternity -- Anne Bradstreet
No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind. -- Thomas Carlyle
O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! Like the beloved John To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, And thus to journey on! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity. -- J. I. Packer
Suffering is a great grace; through suffering the soul becomes like the Saviour; in suffering love becomes crystallised; the greater the suffering, the purer the love. -- Mary Faustina Kowalska
Look to the lilies how they grow! 'Twas thus the Saviour said, that we, Even in the simplest flowers that blow, God's ever-watchful care might see. -- David Macbeth Moir
For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness at the Saviour's feet. -- Alan Redpath
Take notice not only of the mercies of God, but of God in the mercies. Mercies are never so savoury as when they savour a Saviour. -- Ralph Venning
I am not afraid of death. What I am afraid of is that I will meet the Saviour and He will say, 'You could have done better' -- Spencer W. Kimball
There is more of power to sanctify, elevate, strengthen, and cheer in the word Jesus (Jehovah-Saviour) than in all the utterances of man since the world began. -- Charles Hodge
The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of unsparing truth. -- Phillips Brooks
Use me then, my Saviour for whatever purpose and whatever way thou mayest require. Here is my poor heart, and empty vessel; fill it with Thy Grace. -- Dwight L. Moody
Saviour! teach me, day by day,Love's sweet lesson to obey;Sweeter lesson cannot be,Loving Him who first loved me.Charity is the very livery of Christ. -- Hugh Latimer
When I think of that dear rugged cross where the dear Saviour gave his all... When I feel like I'm on my last go round, see me through. -- Van Morrison
We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master. -- J. I. Packer
The Saviour would have passed through the agony of Calvary that one might be saved in His kingdom. He will never abandon one for whom He has died. -- Ellen G. White
In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor. -- Isaac Watts
Those of us who have received Jesus Christ as our Saviour and our Lover and our King already have the Garden of Eden and Paradise restored in our hearts! -- David Berg
Precious Saviour! come in spirit, and lay Thy strong, gentle grasp of love on our dear boys and girls, and keep these our lambs from the fangs of the wolf. -- Theodore L. Cuyler
Love is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of humming-birds printed with peach-juice on the leaves of lilies. -- Herman Melville
Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his cross and earliest at his grave. -- Eaton Stannard Barrett
If I had a choice, I would still choose to remain blind...for when I die, the first face I will ever see will be the face of my blessed Saviour. -- Fanny Crosby
O Jesus, my Divine Saviour, I offer You my mind and heart. Direct their movements while I pray, so that I may offer my prayer in union with Your Immaculate Mother. -- Rose Philippine Duchesne
Twenty-five years old this day. 'Bless the Lord, O my soul,' for all His goodness. Man is immortal till his work is done. Use me in Thy service alone, blessed Saviour. -- Alexander Murdoch Mackay
So long as He lived among men, our Saviour shared the lot of the poor. He knew by experience their cares and hardships, and He could comfort and encourage all humble workers. -- Ellen G. White
It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuriesâ??and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another. -- Leo Tolstoy
Here 'neath veils, my Saviour darkly I behold; To my thirsting spirit all thy light unfold; Face to face in heaven let me come to thee, And the blessed vision of thy glory see. -- Thomas Aquinas
Every sinner is now on trial once for all. He is now invited by the bleeding Saviour, urged by all the horrors of hell, to enter heaven. But death closes the possibility for ever. -- Asahel Nettleton
The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name. -- Oswald Chambers
Sing, my tongue, the Saviour's glory, Of His Flesh, the mystery sing; Of the Blood, all price exceeding, Shed by our Immortal King, Destined, for the world's redemption, From a noble Womb to spring. -- Thomas Aquinas
There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking on; and from each part in it there goeth virtue to do us good. -- Lancelot Andrewes
As every lord giveth a certain livery to his servants, charity is the very livery of Christ. Our Saviour, Who is the Lord above all lords, would have His servants known their badge, which is love. -- Hugh Latimer
Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that an' Chuck him out, the brute! But it's Saviour of his country, when the guns begins to shoot! -- Rudyard Kipling
Conversion is the act of joining our hands to the pierced hand of the crucified Saviour. The new life begins with the taking of Christ's hand, and His taking hold, in infinite love, of our weak hands. -- Theodore L. Cuyler
When the time came that His first-born, the Saviour, should come into the world and take a tabernacle, the Father came Himself and favoured that spirit with a tabernacle instead of letting any other man do it. -- Brigham Young
And thus was kept the first Christmas, the Christmas in the year one, with carols by the choir of heaven, and God's own Son, the Saviour of the world, coming as a Christmas gift for all mankind. -- George Hodges (theologian)
Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in which the gift of God could be appropriated. -- Mark Hopkins
Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart. -- Phillips Brooks
If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction. -- George MacDonald
Heaven for me is hidden in a little Host Where Jesus, my Spouse, is veiled for love. I go to that Divine Furnace to draw out life, And there my Sweet Saviour listens to me night and day. -- Therese of Lisieux
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The tomb of the Saviour was a narrow and empty vault, precious only for its memories of the supreme tragedy of the centuries, but the new continent was to be the home and temple of the living God. -- Chauncey Depew
I want to become more and more like Jesus my Lord, my Saviour. And the way we do that is through discipleship. So I get myself discipled by great men like Doctor Phil Pringle, constantly speaking into my life. -- Kong Hee
God rest ye, little children; let nothing you afright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night; Along the hills of Galilee the white blocks sleeping lay, When Christ, the child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas day. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
You do not base your belief that Jesus is the Saviour from sin upon the fact that somebody is saved, or says he is saved; but you base it upon the Word of the living God; and there you stand. -- John Alexander Dowie
And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come, And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth. -- John Masefield
Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we may conform to Thy known will manifested in our consciences, and in the revelations of Jesus Christ our Saviour. -- Timothy Pickering
We have but one Saviour; and that one Saviour is Jesus Christ our Lord. Nothing that we are and nothing that we can do enters in the slightest measure into the ground of our acceptance with God. Jesus did it all. -- B. B. Warfield
If I had a thousand pounds China should have it- if I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him? Can we do enough for such a precious Saviour? -- Hudson Taylor
The true religion of Jesus Christ our Saviour is that which penetrates, and which receives all the warmth of the heart, and all the elevation of the soul, and all the energies of the understanding, and all the strength of the will. -- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Tears never yet saved a soul. Hell is full of weepers weeping over lost opportunities, perhaps over the rejection of an offered Saviour. Your Bible does not say " Weep, and be saved." It says, "Believe, and be saved." Faith is better than feeling. -- Theodore L. Cuyler
I desire to bless and praise the name of God most high for appointing me my birth in a land of Gospel Light where the glorious tidings of a Saviour and of pardon and salvation through Him have been continually sounding in mine ears. -- Robert Treat Paine
Not till we come to a simple reliance on the blood and mediation of the Saviour, shall we know what it is either to have trust in God, or know what it is to walk before Him without fear, in righteousness and true holiness. -- Thomas Chalmers
The Bible is a precious storehouse, and the Magna Charta of a Christian. There he reads of his Heavenly Father's love, and of his dying Saviour's legacies. There he sees a map of his travels through the wilderness, and a landscape, too, of Canaan. -- John Berridge
Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased Himself to the sufferance of the extremest of indignities, and sunk himself to the bottom of abjectness, to exalt our condition to the contrary extreme. -- Robert Boyle
Jesu, lover of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly, While the nearer waters roll, While the tempest still is high; Hide me,O my Saviour, hide, Till the storm of life is past; Safe into the haven guide, O receive my soul at last. -- Charles Wesley
When I was young, I was sure of many things; now there are only two things of which I am sure: one is, that I am a miserable sinner; and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Saviour. He is well-taught who learns these two lessons. -- John Newton
I realized after reading the fourth chapter of St. John's Gospel, that Christ was truly the Divine Saviour he claimed to be, and no one but He could transform and uplift the downtrodden women of India. ... Thus my heart was drawn to the religion of Christ. -- Pandita Ramabai
All my life I have preserved in the depths of my heart a live faith in my Creator, the Defender of the World, in His Sanctifying Grace and in the expiatory sacrifice of Christ our Saviour, but never have I agreed that true religion demands outward manifestations. -- Valery Bryusov

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