I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant for our instruction and completion if only we'll let Him finish the work. I fear, however, that we are so attention-deficit that we settle for bearable when beauty is just around the corner.”
“If Jesus had been a hunchback, they could hardly have nailed him to the cross.”
“If Jesus had been an actual historical figure we have a thorny paradox. Either this Jesus was a remarkable individual who said and did a host of amazing, revolutionary things – but no one outside his fringe cult noticed for over a century. Or he didn’t – and yet shortly after his death, tiny communities of worshipers that cannot agree about the most basic facts of his life spring up, scattered all across the empire. The truth is inescapable: there simply could never have been a historical Jesus.”
“If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”
“If Jesus had known that his image would end up on Justin Bieber's calf, he would've never started Christianity.”
“If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.”
Source: The Jesus I Never Knew
“If Jesus had not risen from the dead, no right-minded person would have glorified anything so hideous and repulsive as a cross stained with the blood of Jesus.An unopened grave would never have opened heaven.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.”
“If Jesus has become your hope, communicate this to others with your joy and your spiritual, apostolic and social engagement. Let Christ dwell within you, and having placed all your faith and trust in Him, spread this hope around you. Make choices that demonstrate your faith.”
“If Jesus has to do it all over again, there will be more people shouting "Crucify him".You are not here to make the world a better place. Mark 15:13”
Source: God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
“If Jesus heals instantly, praise Him. If Jesus heals gradually, trust Him. When Jesus heals ultimately, you will understand.”
“If Jesus himself, or Mohammed, or Buddha spoke to me personally and said that women are inferior to men, I would still reject that as false dogma because I know with every ounce of my being that this is not true.”
“If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come anywhere near. But if by being born again from above we know Him first as Savior, we know that He did not come to teach us only. He came to make us what He teaches we should be. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His way with us.”
Source: Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
“If Jesus is here we are going to walk out of this place to live our lives to the glory of God the Father.”
“If Jesus is king in heaven then the Kingdom of God is in heaven. If Jesus is king, reign on earth then the Kingdom of Heaven is on earth. If Jesus is king in my heart, then the Kingdom of God is in me.”
“If Jesus is Lord then the only right response to him is surrender and obedience. He is Savior and he is Lord. We cannot separate his demands from his love. We cannot dissect Jesus and relate only to the parts that we like or need. Christ died so that we could be forgiven for managing our own lives. It would be impossible to thank Christ for dying and yet to continue running our own lives.”
“If Jesus is not God, then there is no Christianity, and we who worship Him are nothing more than idolaters. Conversely, if He is God, those who say He was merely a good man, or even the best of men, are blasphemers. More serious still, if He is not God, then He is a blasphemer in the fullest sense of the word. If He is not God, He is not even good.”
Source: Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume
“If Jesus is on Tim Curran's side and Occy is Jesus, who gets to win?”
“If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived.”
“If Jesus is the Son of God, his teachings are more than just good ideas from a wise teacher; they are divine insights on which I can confidently build my life.”
Source: The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
“If Jesus is to become the center of our life, we need to spend time in His presence, before the Tabernacle.”
“If Jesus isn't enough for the church, why would he be enough for the world?”
“If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all he said.”
“If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.”
Source: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
“If Jesus truly died for our sins instead of the Devil who convinced Eve in the first place, then the Devil still won the battle as the last man standing.”
“If Jesus truly died on the cross, then he surely died for his beliefs. Just like Socrates did in Athens, a thousand years before him.”
“If Jesus was a baby, there was a point, on that Holiest of nights, in that Holiest of mangers, where he made a big, Holy load.”
“If Jesus was a bartender, He would still only be half as cool as Carlos.”
Source: Kill the Dead (Sandman Slim, Book 2)
“If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?”
“If Jesus was a Jew, why did he have a Spanish name?”
“If Jesus was alive, he would probably be an environmentalist.”
“If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.”
Source: Armageddon in Retrospect
“If Jesus was buried on Earth, then the best miracle would be to resuscitate him and bring him back to life.”
“If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?”
“If Jesus was hung, would we pray to a rope?”
“If Jesus was put to death by powerful elites protecting their turf, then the murder is only a historical or academic puzzle. But if those who knew Him best—His longtime admirers—were involved, everything changes. It suddenly becomes personal, for we are then forced to confront the more troubling questions: Would I have sided with the majority and cried out for His blood? Would you?”
Source: Crucify!: Why the Crowd Killed Jesus
“If Jesus was willing to be beaten and tortured to gain the salvation of mankind, the least we can do is tell them about it.”
Source: A Hellacious Doctrine: A Defense Of The Biblical Doctrine Of Hell
“If Jesus were alive today, he would probably be a whistle-blower.”
“If Jesus were alive today, He would be a guerrillero.”
“If Jesus were alive today, he'd probably be at the Super Bowl.”
“If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost.”
“If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media.”
“If Jesus were living in our culture, he would probably hang out in coffeehouses.”
“If Jesus were playing the game, I don't know what he'd do.”
“If Jesus were to ask me, as He did that poor demoniac in the Gospel: "What is your name?" I too would have to reply: "My name is legion, for there are many of us" (Mk 5:9). There are as many of us as there are desires, plans and regrets which we harbor, each one different from and contrary to others which pull us in opposite directions. They literally dis-tract us, drag us apart.”
Source: Virginity: A Positive Approach to Celibacy for the Sake of the Kingdom of Heaven
“If Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed
were to bump into each other along the road
and go have a cup of tea or whatever,
I think we all know
they would treat one another far different and far better
than a lot of their followers would.”
“If Jewish believers approached the evidence for Jesus as they might approach the evidence in a crime scene, they would be far more likely to accept him as the prophesied Messiah.”
Source: Person of Interest: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World that Rejects the Bible
“If Jews in the name of their religion were killing Americans, then I think that would be an appropriate comparison. But as far as I know, there`s only one religion that`s doing that, and it is a segment of the religion of Islam that`s doing that.”
“If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.”
“If Jim Mora loses his job with the Falcons, it most likely will be because of wins and losses. Problem is, when you work for such an image-conscious owner and in the most fickle of sports towns, random acts of dumbness tend to shrink a guy's margin for error.”