J Quotes
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“Jesus was never indifferent to the issues of the people in His day.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“Jesus was never worried or perplexed. He was calmly and completely in control of every situation. He never doubted that His Father's goodness would provide everything He needed. And the Father never failed Him.”
Source: Declaring Gods Word
“Jesus was no Son of God, but an ordinary mortal with an extraordinary sense of responsibility towards society.”
Source: Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction
“Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Jesus was not a whisperer. No one ever saw Him close to His neighbor's ear, looking stealthily around lest some one should overhear what He was going to say. He stood upright, looked men squarely and kindly in the eye, and spoke what He had to say right out, boldly, frankly, that the whole world might hear; and when He did speak privately to His disciples, He told them to shout it from the housetops. 'Truth fears nothing but concealment,' said an old Church Father, and Jesus spake only the truth.”
“Jesus was not a white man; He was not a black man. He came from that part of the world that touches Africa and Asia and Europe. Christianity is not a white man's religion and don't let anybody ever tell you that it's white or black. Christ belongs to all people; He belongs to the whole world.”
“Jesus was not conquered by death. By His death, He conquered death.”
“Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis.”
Source: The God Delusion
“Jesus was not famous in his day. If there were no Bible, there would have been no record of him. The record belongs to his four disciples; nobody else has ever mentioned him, whether he existed or not. He was not famous. He was not successful. Can you think of a greater failure than Jesus? But, by and by, he became more and more significant; by and by, people recognized him. It takes time.”
“Jesus was not just a man filled with the baptism of the Holy Spirit, or blessed with the presence of God, like the prophets of the Old Testament. The fullnesss of that wonderful presence of the Lord's Spirit Being, not just a part of it, was incarnated in the body of Jesus Christ and flowed out from Him.”
“Jesus was not just a prophet but the fulfillment of all prophecy.”
“Jesus was not just godly, godlike, God hungry, God focused, or God worshipping. He was God. Not merely a servant of God, instrument of God, or friend of God, but Jesus was God.”
“Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix. Beware those who claim to know the mind of God and who are prepared to use force, if necessary, to make others conform. Beware those who cannot tell God's will from their own. Temple police are always a bad sign. When chaplains start wearing guns and hanging out at the sheriff's office, watch out. Someone is about to have no king but Caesar”
“Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest.”
“Jesus was not tempted to see if He would fall. He was tempted to show that He could not fall.”
“Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.”
Source: Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal
“Jesus was nothing like I thought - He wasn't condemning. He was loving and leading.”
“Jesus was probably a guy who thought, "This thing that I've discovered can save the world and everybody is miserable without it." So he was probably a very kind and giving person and thought he had to give it to people, even if it killed him. He had to make sure they got the message, and he paid the ultimate price as they say due to his insistence.”
“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!”
“Jesus was saying that you can't have a larger life with restricted attitudes.”
“Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself.”
Source: More Ready Than You Realize: The Power of Everyday Conversations
“Jesus was stoned, but no rock hit him. He slipped into the crowd and was found later teaching on a hill somewhere. History tells us that he did nothing wrong, and we sacrificed him anyway.
The day my father died, I assured him he was headed for heaven, though I had a hard time believing in something that floated so aimlessly through the minds of children. The concept seemed fair and unfair in such equal amounts that it appeared to cancel itself out. I’d never met someone so deserving of eternal bliss, yet from the time I was a child I was taught we all deserve hell. I wondered if heaven existed at all.
But I wanted everlasting life to be real for the man who let me lie on his chest on a hammock in the backyard and taught me not to fear thunder. One of the many things my father taught me not to fear.
His breaths were labored and aided by machines. He wore a white hospital gown. I remember thinking, “I can’t believe my father’s going to die in a gown.”
“Are you afraid?” I asked.
“Not at all,” he strained. “I’m going to be with the Lord.”
I wished I shared his confidence. For him, it was a priceless thing no one could take.
I wished the fear of death was like the fear of a passing storm cloud—something we outgrow with understanding. For men like my dad, I guess it was.”
Source: Unnatural Truth
“Jesus was the consummate scientist. He knew the omnipresence of Light which we have expressed in radio, radar and television, but all He could say in His day was: "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now."”
“Jesus was the First American.”
“Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.”
“Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.”
“Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.”
“Jesus was the meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth.”
Source: Moody Classics Complete Set
“Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.”
“Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness," he said and his voice had become almost a snarl.”
“Jesus was the original George Floyd.”
“Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution on earth. () How come, that such an institution, ruling in the name of this same itinerant preacher, whose want was such that he had not even a pillow upon which to rest his head, is now so top-heavy with riches that she can rival - indeed, that she can put to shame - the combined might of the most redoubtable financial trusts, of the most potent industrial super-giants, and of the most prosperous global corporation of the world?”
“Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.”
Source: The Prodigal God: Recovering the heart of the Christian faith
“Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office. That's what Jesus would do.”
“Jesus was treated on the cross as if He lived our life, so by grace we could be treated as if we lived His life. Hallelujah what a Savior!”
“Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched, talked back, and questioned, he remained faithful.”
Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
“Jesus was without one on the earth not merely to feel and share his suffering, but even to know of it; he and heaven were alone in that knowledge.”
Source: Pensées
“Jesus washes the feet of the Apostles. Are we ready to serve others like this.”
“Jesus washing the disciples feet is the most supreme act of humility in all of God’s word.”
“Jesus wasn’t the first to resurrect Christ inside.”
Source: The Second Coming of Jesus Christ - a Short Essay
“Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?”
Source: Carrie
“Jesus! We can't just sit here and twiddle our thumbs. Who's the brains of this outfit, anyway?"
"I think that was Shaw," Carl said wryly as his mind landed on an idea. "Before he went mad' that is. Now I suppose it's you, God help us. "
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Shawn asked in a hurt voice. "I've not gone mad!"
"Uh huh. What's the plan, Dixie?" Carl asked as he spared Shawn a glance before turning his gaze back on Remy. Remy blinked at him.
"You can't put him in charge," Shawn protested. "We'll be in the shit and he'll stop to get an ice cream, for fuck's sake!"
"What's wrong with ice cream?" Remy asked in an insulted voice.
"I think you missed the point of the comment," Thiago muttered as he sat down in the kitchen besid Nikolaus.”
Source: The Archer
“Jesus, Weber, do you realize you sigh like you’re coming home every time you kiss me?”
Source: Frog
“Jesus weeps and loves me still.”
Source: Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book
“Jesus went before us on the narrow path along which He beckons us to follow Him.”
“Jesus went into the temple and boldly drove out those that bought and sold. And when all was cleared, there was nobody left but Jesus. Observe this, for it is the same with us: when he is alone he is able to speak in the temple of the soul.
If anyone else is speaking in the temple of your soul, Jesus will keep still, as if he were not at home. And he is not at home wherever there are strange guests-guests with whom the soul holds conversation, guests who are seeking to bargain. If Jesus is to speak and be heard, the soul must be alone and quiet.”
“Jesus went without comfort so that you might have it. He postponed joy so that you might share in it. He willingly chose isolation so that you might never be alone in your hurt and sorrow. He had no real fellowship so that fellowship might be yours, this moment. This alone is enough cause for great gratitude!”
“Jesus wept.
He knew sorrow.
Jesus felt pain.
He knew suffering.
Jesus felt hunger.
He knew malnourishment.
Jesus felt exhausted.
He knew weariness.
Jesus was rejected.
He knew loneliness.
Jesus was betrayed.
He knew heartbreak.
Jesus was tempted.
He knew the battle within.
And yet… He overcame it all.
This is the Jesus who sees you… who understands you.
God sees you. God hears you.
God will carry you through.”
“Jesus wept once; possibly more than once. There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience, and tears.”
Source: Simon Peter: His Early Life and Times
“Jesus wept, but He never complained.”