“My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.”
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Eamon (singer) (1984) American singer
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“Our Lord Jesus Christ, my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
Sermon (23 November 1879)
Letters, etc
“We'll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord.”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 72
“I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights, to preach Christ my Lord”
Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) Scottish Reformed theologian
Letter 225 (to his parishioners) Aberdeen 1837
Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Andrew Bonar)
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
Page 147
Post-Presidency, Our Endangered Values (2005)
George Whitefield (1714–1770) English minister and preacher
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 543.
James Irwin book More Than Earthlings
More Than Earthlings: An Astronaut's Thoughts for Christ-Centered Living (1983)
William Booth (1829–1912) British Methodist preacher
Variant: I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be.... religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell.