Edward Thomson: Quotes about Christ

Edward Thomson was American bishop. Explore interesting quotes on christ.
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“Give us more and more of real Christianity, and we shall need less of its evidences. Act upon the supposition that Christ is a Divine Teacher, and you will soon have a demonstration of its truth.”

Edward Thomson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 138.

Truth , Teachers , Christ

“Christ is a rock in a weary land, a covert from the tempest of Divine justice, receiving through the ages the snows of Divine mercy, and melting them for the green pastures and still waters of God's peaceful flock — a rock against which wicked men and devils have breathed their empty curses in vain, for eighteen hundred years.”

Edward Thomson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 100.

Men , God , Age , Peace

“They take inadequate views of Christ's prophetic character, who think Jesus came only to utter discourses, parables, and prayers. Suppose all He ever said to be found in the writings of Jewish rabbis and heathen philosophers, His great function would still be an orginal one, to show us the Father.”

Edward Thomson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 65.

Thinking , Christ

“You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a Divine success. "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth."”

Edward Thomson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 81.

God , Failure , Success , Christ

“The Lamb is, indeed, the emblem of love; but what so terrible as the wrath of the Lamb? The depth of the mercy despised is the measure of the punishment of him that despiseth. No more fearful words than those of the Saviour. The threat- enings of the law were temporal, those of the gospel are eternal. It is Christ who reveals the never-dying worm, the unquenchable fire, and He who contrasts with the eternal joys of the redeemed the everlasting woes of the lost. His loving arms would enfold the whole human race, but not while impenitent or unbelieving; the benefits of His redemption are conditional.”

Edward Thomson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 311.

Love , Fear , Law , Joy

“Christ's method is divine. His words have the charm of antiquity with the freshness of yesterday; the simplicity of a child with the wisdom of a God; the softness of kisses from the lip of love, and the force of the lightning rending the tower. His parables are like groups of matchless statuary; His prayers like an organ peal floating round the world and down the ages, echoed by the mountain-peaks and plains into rich and varied melody, in which all devout hearts find their noblest feelings at once expressed, sustained, refined. His truths are self-evidencing. They fall into the soul as seed into the ground, to rest and germinate. He speaks, and all nature and life become vocal with theology.”

Edward Thomson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 63.

Love , Life , Wisdom , God

“The enthronement of Christ over the minds of men is steadily going forward. His kingdom embraces the princes in the realm of mind. It embraces the nations of highest civilization. They are all beneath the cross. It is maintained by simple authority. Other mental monarchs rule by logic; Christ's word is law — it is satisfying to His subjects. His truth in the handsof His disciples, like the bread He broke upon the mountains, is an ample supply for the millions that gather at His table.”

Edward Thomson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 79.

Men , Truth , Law , Mountain

“Go to the family where darkness and suspicion and jealousy and disorder reign, and if they will but receive Christ, mark how light and confidence and order and peace spring up. Go to the regions of superstition and idolatry, and see what transformations are effected by Jesus.”

Edward Thomson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 84.

Jealousy , Family , Peace , Confidence

“The world cannot bury Christ. The earth is not deep enough for His tomb, the clouds are not wide enough for His winding-sheet; He ascends into the heavens, but the heavens cannot contain Him. He still lives — in the church which burns unconsumed with His love; in the truth that reflects His image; in the hearts which burn as He talks with them by the way.”

Edward Thomson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 75.

Love , Truth , World , Way