257 quotes found
“In Matthew, Jesus declares, Whoever is not with me is against me. In Mark, he says,Whoever is not against us is for us. Did he say both things? Could hemean both things? How can both be true at onc...”
“Jesus is for life, not just for Easter.”
“That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the fac...”
“The good repent on knowing their sin; the evil become angry when discovered. Ignorance is not the cause of evil, as Plato held; neither is education the answer to the removal of evil. These men had...”
“Jesus offered a single incentive to follow him; it was woven into all he said and did. Here is how I would after twenty-four years of following summarize his selling point: "Follow me, and you migh...”
“To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful men who accepted Him and allied themselves to His life, righteousness would show itself as mercy.”
“If you havent been made uncomfortable by the teachings of Jesus, you probably havent understood them.”
“When Christ at a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its cornerstone neither the brilliant Paul nor the mystic John, but a shuffler, a snob, a coward in a word, a man....”
“With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to peoples satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and u...”
“Jesus not only revealed himself, he hid himself at the same time.”
“The more He loved those for whom He was the ransom, the more His anguish would increase, as it is the faults of friends rather than enemies which most disturb hearts!”
“The deaf who deny they are deaf will never hear; the sinners who deny there is sin deny thereby the remedy of sin, and thus cut themselves off forever from Him Who came to redeem.”
“Even a King wishes to be loved for Himself, not for the gifts He bestows." He smiled at me. "If you do not enjoy being with Me now, why do you believe you will enjoy My company for eternity?" He sm...”
“It was not enough that the Son of God should come down from the heavens and appear as the Son of Man, for then He would have been only a great teacher and a great example, but not a Redeemer. It wa...”
“I think it's noteworthy that the Almighty didn't act high and mighty. The Holy One wasn't holier-than-thou. The One who knew it all wasn't a know-it-all. The One who made the stars didn't keep his ...”
“Whatever it was that people experience in Jesus has today come to be identified with medieval doctrines based on premodern assumptions that are no longer believable. That identification means that ...”
“"The more we spend our time 'practicing the presence' of Jesus, the more we become like Him"~ R. Alan Woods”
“To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to ev...”
“No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.”
“'Kung Fury!' I mean, Jesus, that thing is amazing.”
