J Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with J. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.”
Source: Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
“Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.”
“Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.”
“Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic foods, he believed in love and peace, and never wore no shoes.”
“Jesus was a carpenter but he was also the Messiah. So do not confuse your Job with your calling”
“Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.”
“Jesus was a crackpot.”
“Jesus was a cross-dresser.”
Source: Brain Droppings
“Jesus was a doer, and not only a talker. He led the way by example. He showed us how to live and minister to others.”
“Jesus was a friend and not a judge. He loved the sinners as much as He loved the little ones. That man was love and not an act”
“Jesus was a friend of women, the first and practically the last friend women had in the church.”
“Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.”
Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon
“Jesus was a lover of life, a very affirmative person, but Christianity is life-negative.”
“Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn't make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the eyes to see and the ears to hear... then his message was easily understood.”
Source: And Then the End Will Come!: But Five Things You Need to Know in the Meantime
“Jesus was a man of love, of immense compassion. He loved this earth, the people, the threes, because that is the way to love God.
God is life. Jesus is very life-affirmative. He says total yes to life.
When you look into the eyes of each being that you meet, you meet God.
Everybody is an incarnation of God - the threes, the flowers, the rocks, the animals, the people and the mountains.
Love the people, love the threes, love the animals - and through the love you meet God.
All are brothers here, because God is one.
The threes, the flowers, the birds and the rocks are all your brothers, because they all come from the one source.
if you are not reconciled with the world, you cannot pray to God. Prayer is only possible when you are in harmony with existence.
The whole existence is your brother. The first step for prayer is to be reconciled with your brother. And your brother means all beings.
Jesus is a celebration of being, a celebration of life.
If you deny life, you deny God.
If you say no to life, you say no to God, because God is life.
To understand Jesus, you have to understand that life is God.
If you say yes to life, you will feel a prayer arising in your heart, a yes arising in your being.
The ego is a no to life, the ego is a separation from life. The inner being is a yes to life. The inner being is a deep yes and acceptance of life.
Saying yes bridges you with the whole. It makes you a part of the whole.
Saying yes will make you more and more spiritual.
Jesus whole message is yes. The word "amen" means yes.
You will never meet God, you will meet human beings, animals, stones and threes.
You can love God through other human beings, through threes, through stones and through animals.
And when you have learnt to love God through all his forms - then only love changes into prayer.”
“Jesus was a management expert too.”
“Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of his day.”
“Jesus was a pacifist.”
“Jesus was a penniless teacher who wandered about the dusty sun-bit country of Judea, living upon casual gifts of food; yet he is always represented clean, combed, and sleek, in spotless raiment, erect, and with something motionless about him as though he was gliding through the air. This alone has made him unreal and incredible to many people who cannot distinguish the core of the story from the ornamental and unwise additions of the unintelligently devout.”
Source: The Outline of History, Vol. 1
“Jesus was a poor, black man who lived in a country and who lived in a culture that was controlled by rich white people. The Romans were Italian - which means they were Europeans, which means they were white - and the Romans ran everything in Jesus' country.”
“Jesus was a pothead- long hair, beard, sandals, carpenter- do the math it all adds up. Living with twelve guys with no visible means of support.”
“Jesus was a socialist.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“Jesus was a storyteller with amazing messages wrapped around them. What we want to do is get back to that. I'm not a preacher. I'm not the person on Sunday. I am the person that is trying to figure out life and wants to be pushed to be a better person. The first one that we're in production with right now is called Nouvelle Vie.”
“Jesus was a strange hobo who walked on water—”
Source: Lonesome Traveler
“Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.”
Source: 'Night, Mother
“Jesus was a throwback to some corn god or something”
“Jesus was a white man, too. Its like we have, hes a historical figure thats a verifiable fact, as is Santa, I just want kids to know that. How do you revise it in the middle of the legacy in the story and change Santa from white to black?”
“Jesus was able to die as the Lamb of God to take away the sins of the world because He was without sin. He was qualified to be an adequate substitute so mankind doesn't have to die but instead can receive the forgiveness of sins.”
Source: ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House
“Jesus was able to die as the Lamb of God to take away the sins of the world (John 1:29), because He was without sin (Heb. 4:15). He was qualified to be an adequate substitute so mankind doesn't have to die (1 Pet. 3:18), but instead can receive the forgiveness of sins (Matt. 26:28).”
Source: ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House
“Jesus was able to engage His listeners with God's message and show how God can speak to us through the ordinary.
The ordinary is ripe with so much depth.”
Source: Along the Way: A creative exploration of the beauty in the ordinary
“Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.”
Source: Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon
“Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself.”
“Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.”
“Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.”
Source: No Pressure, Mr. President!: The Power of True Belief in a Time of Crisis
“Jesus was born again in the pit of hell. .. The church started when Jesus was born again in the gates of hell.”
“Jesus was born at the dawn of the Piscean Age, for which he designed a new religion. Now, our planet’s era is changing again and this time Aquarius will rule.”
Source: The Second Coming of Jesus Christ - a Short Essay
“Jesus was born in a borrowed barn, he was buried in a borrowed tomb, and in-between it all he borrowed mankind’s sin with the intent of never returning it.”
“Jesus was born into a feeding trough that nourished the bodies of animals so that He could feed the souls of men.”
“Jesus was born into an existence that I cannot fathom, and He died a death of the very same sort. And therefore, what insanity causes me to presume His inability to understand the difficulties of my existence when His wildly eclipsed mine, and why do I doubt His adequacy to engage the death within me when He died a death for me?”
“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.”
“Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.”
Source: Growing in Christian Faith: A Book of Daily Readings
“Jesus was definitely not inviting these fishermen into a church job or an engaging hobby, which is how many of us understand vocation in the Church today. If we are not careful, our ingrained expectation of a professional class of clergy will quickly sabotage our ability to understand the ministry of Jesus and the disciples. Our bias builds churchy furniture into this story where there is none. We put our church goggles on and read the idea that the disciples called on that seashore were the first priests of the church back into the scripture. They used to make money as fishermen, then they made their money as ministers. (Luke 10:4-11) This was not the case.”
Source: Vocatio: Imaging a Visible Church
“Jesus was either a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord”
“Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.”
Source: The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield ...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published ; with a Select Collection of Letters Written to His Most Intimate Friends, and Persons of Distinction, in England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, from the Year 1734, to 1770 ; Including the Whole Period of His Ministry ; Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed
“Jesus was handling big money because that treasurer He had was a thief. Now you can't tell me that a ministry with a treasurer that's a thief can operate on a few pennies. It took big money to operate that ministry because Judas was stealing out of that bag. If you have a treasurer, that means you have a lot of money.”
“Jesus was himself the one convincing and permanent miracle.”
Source: The Mind of the Master
“Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.”
Source: The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal
“Jesus was lonely and sorrowful and scared-an unbelievably real person.”
“Jesus was lost in his love for God.”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.”
Source: Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God