Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.

Mahatma Gandhi

The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.

Mahatma Gandhi

Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence.

Johannes Kepler

I believe only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ. In him is all refuge and solace.

John Adams

We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!

John Adams

The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity.

Harvey Cox

There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.

George Barna

Jesus didn't die so we could fill auditoriums, he died so that lives could be transformed.

George Bancroft

I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.

Joe Gibbs

You and I are players, God's our coach, and we're playing the biggest game of all. We have a loving God that made us. We need to get on His team. It says in His word, there's only one way to Him and that's through Jesus Christ.

Jimi Hendrix

Jesus shouldn't have died so early and then he could have got twice as much across. They killed him and then twisted so many of the best things he said. Human hands started messing it all up and now so much of religion is hogwash.

Jim Morrison

She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus.

Eric Ludy

Jesus was restrained by the Father to do only what the Father was doing, and You are to be restrained by the Spirit to do only what Jesus is doing!

Eric Ludy

Jesus didn't just give hugs; He also gave a hammer. Paul didn't just pass on holy kisses; he also tirelessly dealt out swift and holy kicks to the rear end of the ancient church. The Bible has the manly stuff intact, and that is why it is such a great mystery how it got lost in the modern church.

Eric Ludy

When we pray in the name of Jesus, we carry the authority of heaven.

Eric Ludy

Jesus says if you want to have me, you must give up that other thing that has you.

John Mellencamp

Be careful of those who kill in Jesus' name; he don't believe in killing at all.

Norman Vincent Peale

We live in the midst of the greatest scientific civilization in the history of the world. But the greatest wisdom walking our streets is not in any laboratory scientist, but the wisdom of Jesus Christ.

Ralph Abernathy

You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

Rajneesh

Don`t be imitators. The mind is an imitator, because it is easier to play the game of imitation than to become authentically true. Many ideas have been given to you: become like a Buddha, become like Jesus. become like Krishna - as if you have to become everybody else EXCEPT yourself. As if God is only against you. He`s for Krishna, for Christ, for Mahavir, for Buddha - only against you. Then why does He create you? Then He seems simply foolish. Why does He go on creating you? If He`s interested in Buddha, Hc can create Buddhas. Why you?

Shane Claiborne

Jesus still has a really great reputation and the Spirit is still moving. I've got a lot of hope for a generation that takes Jesus seriously, once again.

Shane Claiborne

Jesus is challenging that when addressing "who is your neighbor" and he has a lot of hard things to say about family, "unless you hate your own family you are not going to be a disciple." He is challenging the limits of our compassion and our love as if someone's kid suffers it should be as devastating to us as if it were our own kid. That is what the early church said.

Shane Claiborne

Today the logic goes something like this: 'Calling a ruler Son of God is out of style. No one really does that nowadays. We can support a president while also worshiping Jesus as the Son of God.' But how is this possible? For one says that we must love our enemies, and the other says we must kill them; one promotes the economics of competition, while the other admonishes the forgiveness of debts. To which do we pledge allegiance?

Shane Claiborne

How ironic is it to see a bumper sticker that says 'Jesus is the answer' next to a bumper sticker supporting the war in Iraq, as if to says 'Jesus is the answer - but not in the real world.

Shane Claiborne

Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples.

Shane Claiborne

I'm just not convinced that Jesus is going to say, "When I was hungry, you gave a check to the United Way and they fed me.

Shane Claiborne

But what had lasting significance were not the miracles themselves but Jesus' love. Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead, and a few years later, Lazarus died again. Jesus healed the sick, but eventually caught some other disease. He fed the ten thousands, and the next day they were hungry again. But we remember his love. It wasn't that Jesus healed a leper but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.

Shane Claiborne

When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God.

Shane Claiborne

I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.

Shane Claiborne

We should refuse to get sucked into political camps and insist on pulling the best out of all of them. That's what Jesus did - challenge the worst of each camp and pull out the best of each.

Shane Claiborne

Our churches should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated.

Shane Claiborne

Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.