Gardiner Spring: Quotes about Christ

Gardiner Spring was American clergyman. Explore interesting quotes on christ.
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“Sensible of his ill-desert and helplessness, persuaded of the all-sufficiency of the Redeemer, the believer therefore makes a voluntary surrender of himself into the hands of Christ, to be saved upon His own terms. He relinquishes his vain confidences, and places all his hopes on Christ. He casts himself into His arms. " Lord, to whom shall I go but to Thee?"”

Gardiner Spring

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 231.

Hope , Confidence , Christ

“The man who is satisfied, because he thinks he is safe, who feels that he has religion enough, because he thinks he has enough to save him from hell, is as ignorant of the power as he is a stranger to the consolation of the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

Gardiner Spring

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 106.

Religion , Feeling , Hell , Thinking

“Faith in Christ is not an exercise of the understanding merely; it is an affection of the heart. "With the heart man believeth." To those who believe Christ is precious.”

Gardiner Spring

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 229.

Faith , Exercises , Understanding , Heart

“The act of the soul, in surrendering itself into the hands of Christ, forms a connecting bond between Him as the Vine and the soul as the branches, which communicates life, strength, nourishment, and beauty. In a word, with a just view of the character, and a supreme attachment to the person of Christ, the believer yields himself into His hands as a full and complete Saviour. Him he receives; upon Him he rests, and rests for time and eternity.”

Gardiner Spring

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 226.

Life , Beauty , Soul , Communication

“If you have nothing of the spirit of prayer, nothing of the love of the brotherhood, nothing of mortifying the spirit of the world, nothing of growth in grace, of cordial, habitual, persevering obedience to the Divine commands, how can it be that you have been brought nigh by the blood of Christ?”

Gardiner Spring

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 295.

Love , World , Christ

“The same bond which unites believers to Christ binds them to each other. The love which is exercised towards the Head extends to the members. The union itself necessarily involves a union of affection. Those who love Christ love those who are like Him and those who are beloved by Him.”

Gardiner Spring

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 110.

Love , Exercises , Christ