W. Ian Thomas Quotes & Sayings

We may understand again, therefore, from this picture, that God's purpose in the cross of Jesus Christ was two-fold: first that we might be forgiven, being saved from sin's penalty because Christ died for us, and secondly, that we might be delivered from sin's power, because this old sinful nature, called the flesh, died with Him. — W. Ian Thomas

The Christian life is the life of the Lord Jesus Christ lived two thousand years ago, lived now by Him in you! — W. Ian Thomas

All of Christ in all of you. You can never have more. You need never have less. — W. Ian Thomas

There are few things quite so boring as being religious, but there is nothing quite so exciting as being a Christian! — W. Ian Thomas

For godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce Himself in you; not self-righteousness, but Christ-righteousness; the righteousness which is by faith — W. Ian Thomas

Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing-
if it is only yours it won't wake the dead,
it will simply disturb the neighbours. — W. Ian Thomas

To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ Who is our life. — W. Ian Thomas

Good works are those works that have their origin in Jesus Christ
whose activity is released through your body, presented to Him as a living sacrifice by a faith that expresses total dependence, as opposed to the Adamic independence (Rom. 12:1, 2). — W. Ian Thomas

Eternal life is not a peculiar feeling inside! It is not your ultimate destination, to which you will go when you are dead. If you are born again, eternal life is that quality of life that you possess right now. — W. Ian Thomas

Again, "Pray without ceasing" (1 Thess. 5:17), and here the word to pray does not mean to beg or to plead as if God were unwilling to give
but simply to expose by faith every situation as it arises, to the all-sufficiency of the One who indwells you by His life. — W. Ian Thomas

Man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to His humanity. — W. Ian Thomas

To be in Christ
that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you
that is sanctification! — W. Ian Thomas

Although Jesus Christ was Himself the Creative Deity, by whom all things were made, as man He humbled Himself
set aside His divine prerogatives and walked this earth as man
a perfect demonstration of what God intended man to be
the whole personality yielded to and occupied by God for Himself. — W. Ian Thomas

I may wish to return to my home in England, and I stand in New York, but ever since I was born I have been bound to this earth by a law that I have never been able to break
the law of gravity. I am told, however, that there is another law, a higher law, the law of aero-dynamics, and if only I will be willing to commit myself in total trust to this new law, then this new law will set me free from the old law. By faith I step into the plane, I sit back in the rest of faith, and as those mighty engines roar into life, I discover that the new law of aero-dynamics sets me free from the law of gravity. — W. Ian Thomas

To be in Christ - that makes you fit for heaven; but for Christ to be in you - that makes you fit for earth! To be in Christ changes your destination; but for Christ to be in you - that changes your destiny! The one makes heaven your home - the other makes this world His workshop. — W. Ian Thomas