Jesus Quotes And Sayings

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“I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring. Christianity and Islam, theistic though they may claim to be, are both based on the fetishizing of human primates: Jesus in one case and Mohammed in the other. Neither of these figures can be called exactly historical but both have one thing in common even in their quasi-mythical dimension. Both of them were first encountered by the Jews. And the Jews, ravenous as they were for any sign of the long-sought Messiah, were not taken in by either of these two pretenders, or not in large numbers or not for long. If you meet a devout Christian or a believing Muslim, you are meeting someone who would give everything he owned for a personal, face-to-face meeting with the blessed founder or prophet. But in the visage of the Jew, such ardent believers encounter the very figure who did have such a precious moment, and who spurned the opportunity and turned shrugging aside. Do you imagine for a microsecond that such a vile, churlish transgression will ever be forgiven? I myself certainly hope that it will not. The Jews have seen through Jesus and Mohammed. In retrospect, many of them have also seen through the mythical, primitive, and cruel figures of Abraham and Moses. Nearer to our own time, in the bitter combats over the work of Marx and Freud and Einstein, Jewish participants and protagonists have not been the least noticeable. May this always be the case, whenever any human primate sets up, or is set up by others, as a Messiah. ”
– Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir

“Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold…”
– Colin Hay

“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”
– Corrie ten Boom

“Strange star-like object over Oslo right before Obama arrives. A gift of a golden medal given by a group of wise men… Nah.”
– Craig Ferguson

“Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.”
– Criss Jami

“When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from right across the table. But she missed. It wasn’t my life she was after. It was more. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what shed done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.”
– Denis Johnson, Jesus Son

“Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy’s hatred, the greater his need of love. Be his enmity political or religious, he has nothing to expect from a follower of Jesus but unqualified love. In such love there is not inner discord between the private person and official capacity. In both we are disciples of Christ, or we are not Christians at all.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus; it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“What do we find God doing about this business of sin and evil?…God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.”
– Dorothy L. Sayers, The Whimsical Christian: 18 Essays

“The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates name. And that is because Socrates ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.”
– E.L. Doctorow

“My righteousness is just as good as Jesus righteousness, because it IS Jesus righteousness!”
– E.W. Kenyon

“I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don’t know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East you’re as good as dead.”
– Elton John

“It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder can’t be packaged, and it can’t be worked up. It requires some sense of being there and some sense of engagement.”
– Eugene H. Peterson

“The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.”
– Eugene H. Peterson, The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the Way

“The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.”
– Francis Chan

“[Y]ou have to stop loving and pursuing Christ in order to sin. When you are pursuing love, running toward Christ, you do not have opportunity to wonder, *Am I doing this right?* or *Did I serve enough this week?* When you are running toward Christ, you are freed up to serve, love, and give thanks without guilt, worry or fear. As long as you are running, you’re safe.”
– Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“I explained we lost the porch to the flood. Father hasn’t gotten around to rebuilding it, although he’s quite a good carpenter. He says if Jesus was a carpenter, its good enough for a clergyman. But I don’t remember that Jesus let his house fall down.”
– Franny Billingsley, Chime

“Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.”
– Frederick Buechner

“Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.”
– Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat

“And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?”
– Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat

“And then I stand in front of Gods Throne squinting up at His blazing glory and He says, You had your opportunities, boy. But did you listen? No. You went on heedlesly reading that garbagey magazine with pictures of naked girls in it. How juvenile! I gave geese more sense than that. Please, God. Im only fourteen years old. A teenager. Have mercy. Be loving. I was, says God. For eons. And look at what it got me. You. God turns in disgust, just the way Daddy does. Sorry, but Im the Creator. I take it personally. There are slugs and bugs and night-crawlers I feel better about having created – I mean, there are sparrows – Ive got my eye on one right now. Is that sparrow consumed with lust? No. He mates in the spring and thats the end of it. Consider the lilies. Do they think about lily tits all the time? No. They look not and they lust not, and yet I say unto you that you will never be half as attractive as they. Therefore, I say unto you, think not about peckers and boobs and all that nonsense and your Heavenly Father will see that you meet a good woman and marry her, just as I do for the sparrow and walleye – yea verily, even the night-crawler and the eelpout. But Ive told you this over and over for nineteen centuries. And now, verily, its too late. Times up, buster. Lights out! Games over! ”
– Garrison Keillor

“Gentle Jesus, meek and mild is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.”
– Hans Urs von Balthasar, Unless You Become Like This Child

“The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.”
– Henry Martyn

“Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,”
– Holy Bible: King James Version

“May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Christ Jesus, so that with one heart and mouth you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. ”
– Holy Bible: King James Version

“The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O Lord, endures forever – do not abandon the works of your hands.”
– Holy Bible: King James Version

“Again Jesus said, Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”
– Holy Bible: King James Version

“I will make you a fisher of men”
– Holy Bible: King James Version

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