Washington Gladden: Quotes about Christ

Washington Gladden was American pastor. Explore interesting quotes on christ.
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“The wayfaring man, Christ Jesus, has helped many and many a tired traveler home with burdens quite as heavy as yours. Often and often He goes up and down this thoroughfare of life in search of just such overladen pilgrims; and His voice is sounding forth above all the babble of the busy tongues and the clatter of the busy wheels, saying, — "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."”

Washington Gladden

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 98.

Life , Travel , Home , Search

“The gospel has been very imperfectly heard by any one to whom it has brought no other tidings than that of personal salvation. For in truth the individual is saved only when he is put into right relations to the community in which he lives, and the establishment of these right relations among men is the very work that Christ came to do. The individual gospel and the social gospel are therefore vitally related, inseparably bound together no more come to the man apart from the community, than life can come to the branch when it is separated from the vine.”

Washington Gladden

Source: The Nation and the Kingdom (1909), pp. 10-11 http://books.google.com/books?id=MSg3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA10

Life , Men , Truth , Communication

“The substance of all realities is in this religion of Jesus Christ; but it can be real only to those who will do His will.”

Washington Gladden

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

Religion , Reality , Christ

“If you were good enough, there would be no need of confessing Christ at all. It is just because you are not good enough, that Christ says to you, "Follow me." He came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. It is not the perfect people whom He wants in His church, but those who have a deep sense of their own imperfection, and who believe that His strength is made perfect in weakness.”

Washington Gladden

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 155.

People , Sense , Christ , Perfection

“I only wish to have the principle recognized that no man liveth to himself; that no man's business is his business alone; that all business is stewardship; that there is no law of life but Christ's law; that the main question for every man is not how much he can get, but how much he can give.”

Washington Gladden

The New Idolatry (1905), p. 242

Life , Law , Question , Business

“Every one of us may know what is the ruling purpose of his life; and he who knows that his ruling purpose is to trust and follow Christ knows that he is a Christian.”

Washington Gladden

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 17.

Life , Christ