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Religious Studies GCSE Revision: Useful Quotations for Christianity – Beliefs and Teachings
Note: This document was made by Christian Gyondrov in 10B1 (2021-2022) and is not a school document so use at your own risk as it could contain some errors.
Quotation | What it is used for |
|---|---|
“I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible…” (Nicene Creed) | The Nature of God |
“Nothing is impossible with God.” (Luke 1:37) | God as Omnipotent |
“Even the wind and the waves obey him.” (Mark) | God as Omnipotent |
“For he makes the sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” (Matthew) | God as Omnipotent |
“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.” (John) | God as Benevolent |
“Do not steal/(murder)/ (commit adultery)/ (etc.).” (The Ten Commandments) | God as Benevolent |
“Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” (Sermon on the Mount, Matthew) | God as Benevolent |
“Do not steal/(murder)/ (commit adultery)/ (etc.).” (The Ten Commandments) | God as Just |
“For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust… You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (The Sermon on the Mount, Matthew) | God as Just |
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud…” (1 Corinthians) | Influences of the Nature of God on Christians - Benevolence |
“Through all this Job did not sin nor did he blame God.” (1:22) | The Problem of Evil and Suffering |
“Our Father in heaven.” (The Lord’s Prayer) | The Holy Trinity – God the Father |
“I baptise you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” (Trinitarian Formula) | Influences of the Trinity on Christians |
“Again, the high priest asked him, ’Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?’ ‘I am’, said Jesus.” | The Incarnation |
“When Jesus was baptised, a voice from Heaven said ‘You are my Son’.” (Mark 1:11) | The Incarnation |
“In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.” (James 2:17 [NIV]) | Salvation through good works |
“For it is by grace you have been saved…” (Ephesians 2:8 [NIV]) | Salvation through grace |
“But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?” (James 2:20) | Salvation through good works |
“In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God’s gracious choice. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.” (Romans 11:5-6) | Salvation through grace |
“But when the kindness of God our Saviour and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour.” (Titus 3:4-7) | Salvation through grace |
“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die.” (John 11:25) | Salvation through grace |
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith- and this is not from yourselves, it is the gist of God- not by works, so that no one can boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9) | Salvation through grace |
“Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen!” (Luke 24: 1-12) | The Resurrection Account |
“And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile… If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men.” (1 Corinthians) | The Resurrection |
“Men of Galilee… why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:1-11) | The Ascension |
“The Lord works vindication and justice for all who are oppressed.” (Psalm 103:6) | God as Just |
“Hear O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone.” (Deuteronomy 6:4) | God as One, Unified God |
“You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” (Matthew 6:16) | The Holy Trinity – God the Son |
“All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages.” (Acts 2:4) | The Holy Trinity – God the Holy Spirit |
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) | God as Omnipotent |
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1) | The Holy Trinity – God the Son |
“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.” (John 1:14) | The Incarnation |
“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6) | Heaven and Hell (Need to believe in Jesus and his teachings to go to heaven). |
“The gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23) | Salvation through grace |
“Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” (Genesis 2:7) | Beliefs about Creation |
“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27) | Beliefs about Creation |
“The Spirit of God was hovering over the water. And God said, ‘Let there be light.’ And there was light.” (Genesis 1:2-3) | Beliefs about Creation |
“He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.” (Matthew 25:33-35) | The Afterlife and Judgement |
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.” (Matthew 25:41) | The Afterlife and Judgement |
“For we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due to use for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.” (2 Corinthians 5:10) | The Afterlife and Judgement |
“Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” (Matthew 25:46) | Heaven and Hell |
“For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.” (1 Corinthians 15:3-5) | The Resurrection |
“For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either.” (1 Corinthians 15:16) | The Resurrection |
“So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.” (1 Corinthians 15:42-44) | The Resurrection |
“When the woman saw the fruit of the tree she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband and he ate it.” (Genesis 3:6) | Sin and Salvation |
“Turn to God in repentance.” (Acts 20:21) | Salvation through spirit |
“God is fair and just.” (Psalm 25:8) | God as Just |
“I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you for ever - the Spirit of truth.” (John 14:16-17) | The Holy Trinity – God the Spirit |
“While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven.” (Luke 24:51) | The Ascension |
“I am the LORD your GOD, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.” (Exodus 20:2-3) | God as One, Unified God |
“This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.” (Matthew 1:18 [NIV]) | The Incarnation |
You may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.” (John 21:31 [NIV]) | Jesus as the Son of God |
“Jesus called out with a loud voice, ‘Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.’ When he had said this, he breathed his last.” (Luke 23:46 [NIV]) | The Crucifixion |
“Surely this man was the Son of God!” (Mark 15:39 [NIV]) | The Crucifixion (Roman centurion in charge of crucifixion praised God and acknowledged Jesus as a righteous man who had done nothing to deserve this. |
“He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father, And he will come to judge the living and the dead: I believe in… The resurrection of the body; | The Afterlife and Judgement |
“[…] if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father – Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.” (1 John 2:1-2 [NIV]) | Atonement |