Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. C. Sproul

The gospel of Jesus Christ must be defended in every generation. It is always the center of attack by the forces of evil.

R. C. Sproul

The atonement is a multifaceted event-Jesus is shown providing surety for our debt to God, mediating the enmity between us and God, and offering Himself as a substitute to suffer God's judgment in our place.

R. C. Sproul

I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.

R. C. Sproul

Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.

R. C. Sproul

The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.

R. C. Sproul

The rapture will not be secret but open and manifest. Its purpose will not be to whisk the elect away from the earth for a while until Christ returns for a 'second' Second Coming. The purpose of the rapture is to allow the saints to meet Jesus in the air as He returns and be included in His entourage during His triumphal descent from Heaven. His coming in this manner will be attended by the general resurrection, the final judgment, and the end of the world.

R. C. Sproul

Jesus' life was a storm of controversy. The apostles, like the prophets before them, could hardly go a day without controversy. Paul said that he debated daily in the marketplace. To avoid controversy is to avoid Christ. We can have peace, but it is a servile and carnal peace where truth is slain in the streets.

R. C. Sproul

The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We're saved by works, but they're not our own.

R. C. Sproul

Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus Christ. Yet even His love made people angry. His love was a perfect love, a transcendent and holy love, but HIs very love brought trauma to people. This kind of love is so majestic we can't stand it.

R. C. Sproul

Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

R. C. Sproul

Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.

R. C. Sproul

The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.

R. C. Sproul

Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?

Pope Paul VI

Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the Living Heart of each of our parishes

Rachel Scott

I am not going to apologize for speaking the name of Jesus... If I have to sacrifice everything... I will.

R. A. Torrey

The best book in the world to put into the hands of one who desires to know about Jesus and to be saved is the gospel of John.

R. A. Torrey

The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.

Mike Huckabee

You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.

Mike Huckabee

I didn't get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives.

Noam Chomsky

Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the powerful, and a pacifist doctrine. And it remained that way, that's what Christianity was up... until Constantine. :Constantine shifted it so the cross, which was the symbol of persecution of somebody working for the poor, was put on the shield of the Roman Empire. It became the symbol for violence and oppression, and that's pretty much what the church has been until the present.

John Ashcroft

Leaders select noble objectives and pursue them with such intensity that others join them. ... The greatest of all leaders from this perspective was Jesus Christ. ....May your choices be so powerful and magnetic that you'll draw people toward life (Duet. 30:19, ...therefore choose life.-) rather than death, blessing rather than cursing.

John Ashcroft

Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.

John Gresham Machen

Jesus was certainly not a mere enunciator of permanent truths, like the modern liberal preacher; on the contrary He was conscious of standing at the turning-point of the ages, when what had never been was now to come to be.

John Gresham Machen

It is impossible to be a true soldier of Jesus Christ and not fight.

John Grisham

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

John Greenleaf Whittier

We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But dim or clear, we own in Him The life, the truth, the way.

Ken Blanchard

As a servant leader the way you serve the vision is by developing people so that they can work on that vision even when you're not around. The ultimate sin of an effective servant leader is what happens when you are not there. That was the power of Jesus' leadership-the leaders He trained went on to change the world when He was no longer with them in bodily form.

Ken Blanchard

In fact, .. Jesus is mentioned 75 times in the Koran.

Kinky Friedman

They probably would've taken Jesus if he hadn't been nailed down.

Oprah Winfrey

I was like you are. I thought Jesus came and died on the cross. Jesus' being here was about his death and dying on the cross but it really was about him coming to show us how to do it. To show us the Christ-consciousness that he had and that conciousness abides in all of us. That's what I got. That's what I got.

Margaret Atwood

The heart of Jesus glowed, because it was holy. Holy things glowed in general.

Margaret Atwood

Anything that suffers and dies instead of us is Christ; if they didn't kill birds and fish they would have killed us. The animals die that we may live, they are substitute people, hunters in the fall killing the deer, that is Christ also. And we eat them, out of cans or otherwise; we are eaters of death, dead Christ-flesh resurrecting inside us, granting us life. Canned Spam, canned Jesus, even the plants must be Christ.

Kinky Friedman

Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.