Sentence examples for christ christ from inspiring English sources
They could have leavened things with a few choice phrases, but the best ones – "Holy Christ", "Christ on a stick", "suppurating bloody Christ", that sort of thing – hadn't been invented yet.
John Wesley noted in his Journal that at a Moravian service on May 24 , 1738 he "felt" his "heart strangely warmed"; he continued, "I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death".
A related metaphor was that of the victory of Christ: Christ entered into mortal combat with Satan for the human race, and the winner was to be lord; although the Crucifixion appeared to be Christ's capitulation to the enemy, his Resurrection broke the power of the Devil and gave the victory to Christ, granting to humankind the gift of immortality.
He may have been "Away in the loveable west, / On a pastoral forehead of Wales" when the Deutschland went down, but he identifies strongly with the tall nun who cried, "O Christ, Christ, come quickly," even as God sent his storms to drown her.
"Oh Christ, Christ, Christ," he said, and several other things not to bear repeating.
Benson Y. Parkinson of the Association for Mormon Letters noted that Christof represented Jesus as an "off-Christ" ("Christ-off") or Antichrist, comparing the megalomaniacal Hollywood producer to Lucifer.
Paul sometimes shows knowledge that "the Christ" was a title, not a name, but more commonly he referred to Jesus as "Jesus Christ," "Christ Jesus," or even "Christ," as in Romans 6 4: "Christ was raised from the dead".
And he frequently talks about Jesus Christ, saying that both Christ and socialism represent love.
Within a few years after the beginnings of the Christian movement, the names Jesus, Christ, Jesus Christ, and Christ Jesus could be used almost interchangeably, as the textual variants in the New Testament indicate.
The document, written by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, says that salvation is available only through Jesus Christ and that Christ's church "continues to exist fully only in the Catholic Church".
