Christianity quotes {Quotes—explanation} Flashcards
(26 cards)
“Love your neighbour as yourself…”
Love everyone
“Treat others as you want to be treated…”
How you should treat others
“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”
Forgiveness
“Make every effort to live in peace and be holy…”
Peace
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God”
Peacemakers
A teaching of Jesus about judgment.
‘The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats’
“God created man in his own image…”
How God created man
A story told by Jesus about forgiveness.
‘The Parable of the Lost Son’
“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth…”
Old Testament revenge
“The Lord requires you to do justice, and to love kindness”
What the lord requires you to do
“When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.”
What justice does
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
Quote for Gods love/omnibenevolence
“For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son”
Reconciliation/ salvation
“Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us…”
Forgiveness against wrongdoing
“The word became flesh and made his dwelling among us”
Gives the authority of God to Jesus’ actions and shows that Jesus is god incarnate
“Father, into your hands i commit my spirit”
God will receive Christian souls so there is no need to fear death
“While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven”
Ascension to heaven
“In the same way, faith by itself, if not accompanied by actions, is dead”
Salvation through good works
“For it is by grace you have been saved”
Salvation through grace
“He is atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only ours but the sins of the world”
Jesus’ atonement for humanity
“He will come to judge the living and the dead”
Apostles creed for judgement
“You shall not murder”
Against capital punishment
“Yo can not serve both money and God”
Against greed as a reason for war/crime
“Whoever gives to the poor lacks nothing”
Against poverty/ for selflessness
