He thought of Christ as the "one true master" who offers humans knowledge that begins in faith, is developed through rational understanding, and is perfected by mystical union with God.
She thought of Christ on the cross saying, "I thirst," and felt this had a special meaning for her, that he thirsted for the neglected to receive consolation.
I've given a lot of thought to how often followers of Christ find themselves - or more accurately, place themselves - in the role of victim.
The unexpected subversions of this romance - whose half-gypsy heroine tears her hair at the thought of marriage and is frightened by the figure of Christ on the Cross - are emphasised.
We are taught to suppress such thoughts and to refrain from sin, by the teaching of Christ, the chief of his bounties during his earthly sojourn, which we now receive in even greater measure through the scriptures.
Others have expressed in different ways the thought that non-Christians also are included within the universal scope of Christ's salvific work and their religions fulfilled in Christianity.
"When you believe you have the mind of Christ, God can work in your own thoughts.
In 1922, preacher-superstar Harry Emerson Fosdick (a Baptist!) preached to his church, "The two men who contributed most to the Church's thought of the divine meaning of the Christ were Paul and John, who never even distantly allude to the virgin birth".
Two subsequent books, The Greatness of Christ (1882) and Africa and America (1891), reflected his more mature thought on agency and moral change.
Part II talks about the duties of those who follow God's invitation, to pass the love of Christ in order to achieve heaven on earth, a thought also expressed in the Epistle reading.
The mode of thought and language employed at Antioch, on the other hand, emphasized the true humanity of Christ, but its opponents maintained that in so doing it had split Christ into two persons, each of whom maintained his individual selfhood while they acted in concert with each other.
