Herrick Johnson: Quotes about Christ

Herrick Johnson was American clergyman. Explore interesting quotes on christ.
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“Other men have said, "If I could only live, I would establish and perpetuate an empire." This Christ of Galilee says, "My death shall do it." Other martyrs have died in simple fidelity to truth. This martyr dies that He may make His truth mighty over all hearts. He was a man; but was He only a man?”

Herrick Johnson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 70.

“Christianity, Christ, heaven, hell, the judgment, sin, holiness. God, — these, and whether they be true or false, and our personal relations to them, whether they be right or wrong, are things to know about, not to be doubting or guessing about.”

Herrick Johnson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 135.

“The most destructive criticism has not been able to dethrone Christ as the incarnation of perfect holiness. The waves of a tossing and restless sea of unbelief break at His feet, and He stands still the supreme model, the inspiration of great souls, the rest of the weary, the fragrance of all Christendom, the one divine flower in the garden of God.”

Herrick Johnson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 57.

“If Christianity were only a development, then Christ was not needed. If Christianity were only a scheme of morals, then the Divine incarnation was a thing superfluous.”

Herrick Johnson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 132.

“O, let us understand that the power of Christianity lies not in a hazy indefiniteness, not in shadowy forms, not so much even in definite truths and doctrines, but in the truth and the doctrine. There is but one Christ crucified. All the gathered might of the infinite God is in that word.”

Herrick Johnson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 72.

“Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest in the flesh.”

Herrick Johnson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 57.

“Christ has lifted woman to a new place in the world. And just in proportion as Christianity has sway, will she rise to a higher dignity in human life. What she has now, and what she shall have, of privilege and true honor, she owes to that gospel which took those qualities peculiarly and which had been counted weak and unworthy, and gave them a Divine glory in Christ.”

Herrick Johnson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 618.

“He who tears down the cross, what is there left to lift him to heaven? The church claiming to be a Christian church is false to the title, if she make the cross of Christ of none effect.”

Herrick Johnson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 173.