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title: "10 Hold Christ Quotes by 10 authors"
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> [We take hold of Christ as his words take hold us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-deyoung/we-take-hold-of-christ-as-his-words-take-hold-us/)

[Kevin DeYoung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-deyoung/)

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> [It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/it-is-not-your-hold-of-christ-that-saves-you-but-his-hold-of-you/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:12”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beth-moore/i-make-every-effort-to-take-hold-of-it-because-i-also-have-been-taken/)

[Beth Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beth-moore/)

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> [So immediately I'm trying to think: What are some of these times when we feel we're losing our hold on Christ, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lucado/so-immediately-i-m-trying-to-think-what-are-some-of-these-times-when/)

[Max Lucado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-lucado/)

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> [In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-chemnitz/in-the-first-place-our-faith-ought-to-lay-hold-on-christ-as-god-and/)

[Martin Chemnitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-chemnitz/)

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> [Often doubts will prevail. What a mercy it is that it is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spurgeon/often-doubts-will-prevail-what-a-mercy-it-is-that-it-is-not-your-hold/)

[Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-spurgeon/)

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> [When I first became a Christian I thought I would be glad when I got farther on, and got established. I thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dwight-l-moody/when-i-first-became-a-christian-i-thought-i-would-be-glad-when-i-got/)

[Dwight L. Moody](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dwight-l-moody/)

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> [In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ's hand, keeping…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-edwards/in-all-your-course-walk-with-god-and-follow-christ-as-a-little-poor/)

[Jonathan Edwards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-edwards/)

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> [Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it; offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it; throw a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-guthrie/scatter-money-in-a-crowd-how-they-scramble-for-it-offer-bread-to-the/)

[Thomas Guthrie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-guthrie/)

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> [“Remember, therefore, it is not thy hold of Christ that saves thee--it is Christ; it is not thy joy in Christ that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-h-spurgeon/remember-therefore-it-is-not-thy-hold-of-christ-that-saves-thee-it-is/)

[Charles H. Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-h-spurgeon/)

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