John McClellan Holmes: Quotes about Christ

John McClellan Holmes was US Christian minister and author. Explore interesting quotes on christ.
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“In the whole range of human vision, nothing is more attractive than to see a young^ man full of promise and of hope, bending all his energies in the direction of truth and duty and God, his soul pervaded with the loftiest enthusiasm, and his life consecrated to the noblest ends. To be such a young man is to rival the noblest and best of men in heroic valor and Christian chivalry. Nay, to be such a young man is to be like Christ, the highest type, the most illustrious example of enthusiasm the world has ever seen.”

John McClellan Holmes

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 208.

“The tree of human history, as it has grown from age to age, has been but the unfolding of a single germ — but the development of Christ and Him crucified.”

John McClellan Holmes

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 216.

“All true development tends ever to God. Its objective aim is the restoration by the second Adam of the Divine image forfeited by the first; and, incidentally, it transmutes grief into gladness and sighs into songs. But it is always a development in Christ, since it is only " in the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God " that any of our race can come "unto a perfect man."”

John McClellan Holmes

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 216.

“It is for all who are personally united to Christ to cultivate a contemplative and sanctified spirit. So far from being secular and sordid, they should be sacred and spiritual, having their lives hid with Christ in God, and their whole natures absorbed in the knowledge and love and service of the Saviour.”

John McClellan Holmes

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 562.

“Christ's gospel could never have been delivered by one who was diseased.”

John McClellan Holmes

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 299.