Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Paine

The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision, and credulity believe. Stories of this kind had been told of the assassination of Julius Caesar.

Thomas Paine

Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations would have understood, the whole earth had known it in twenty-four hours, and all nations would have believed it; whereas, though it is now almost two thousand years since, as they tell us, Christ came upon earth, not a twentieth part of the people of the earth know anything of it, and among those who do, the wiser part do not believe it.

Thomas Paine

Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.

Thomas Paine

His [Jesus'] historians, having brought him into the world in a supernatural manner, were obliged to take him out again in the same manner, or the first part of the story must have fallen to the ground.

Thomas Paine

The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder on Jesus Christ, is the strangest system of religion ever set up.

Thomas Paine

The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called Jesus Christ; and if there are no such things as prophecies of any such person in the Old Testament, the New Testament.

Rumi

The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did.

Rumi

The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did about the future. Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that.

Rumi

Jesus was lost in his love for God.

Tom Robbins

I've always assumed that every time a child is born, the Divine reenters the world. Okay? That's the meaning of the Christmas story. And every time that child's purity is corrupted by society, that's the meaning of the Crucifixion story. Your man Jesus stands for that child, that pure spirit, and as its surrogate, he's being born and put to death again and again, over and over, every time we inhale and exhale, not just at the vernal equinox and on the 25th of December.

Tom Robbins

What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was.

Tom Robbins

If you were Jesus with missing years to kill where would you go?

Todd Gitlin

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.

Steve King

Jesus didn`t teach people to kill.

Steve King

What Planned Parenthood is doing is not the faith that I believe in, but Jesus never ordered anyone to be killed and he never raised his hand to injure anyone specifically. But Mohammed did and there is a big difference in this.

Steven Morrissey

I have forgiven Jesus for all of the love he placed in me, when there's no one I can turn to with this love.

Steven Morrissey

Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me.

Steven Curtis Chapman

I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death.

Steven Curtis Chapman

I did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God's family.

Steven Adler

I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.

Sun Myung Moon

Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." In order for you yourself to become the way, the truth, and the life, you must embrace the whole universe and bring harmony to it.

Sue Miller

Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to them.

Steven Weber

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.

Richard Stearns

To be a disciple means forsaking everything to follow Jesus, unconditionally, putting our lives completely in His hands. When we say that we want to be His disciple, yet attach a list of conditions, Jesus refuses to accept our terms. His terms involve unconditional surrender.

Richard Simmons

People have been frying foods since Jesus was on this planet, and there is always going to be greasy, fried, salty, sugary food. It is up to the individual to walk in and say, 'I don't want those fries today.'

Richard Harris

Jesus is just a word I use to swear with

Richard Ashcroft

I'm intrigued by all that, by religions, I'm intrigued by Jesus Christ. It's all fascinating.

Samuel Adams

Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying on the merits of Jesus Christ for the pardon of my sins.

T. D. Jakes

The myth of the poor Jesus needs to be destroyed, because it's holding people back.

T. D. Jakes

I think that Jesus is the product.

T. D. Jakes

I'm having an amazing time teaching through the lives of people much like Jesus did.

T. D. Jakes

When Jesus says, 'Take, eat. This is my body that was broken for you,' He says, I want my body in you. (Pause. . . shouts and claps) I want my blood in you. And every time you celebrate this rite, it is a reminder that you belong to me, and I belong to you. And he said, 'I will drink no more wine until I drink it new with you and the kingdom of God. Communion is the most romantic ordinance. Eh, Eh, Eh. (He laughs. Pause. . . the audience shouts and claps.) It is the most romantic ordinance between two lovers.

T. D. Jakes

Besides, Jesus was a rich man. He had to have been, in order to have supported his disciples and their families during his ministry.