“For many years, I have kept in my office an ink drawing of two smiling figures with their arms around each other: Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, with the caption: "Jesus and Buddha must be very good friends." They are not the same, but they are friends, not enemies, and they are not indifferent to one another.” YearsTwoJesusChristEnemyFiguresArmsOfficeJesus ChristVery GoodDrawingIndifferentGood FriendInkCaptionVery Good FriendsGautama Buddha Author:Tilden Edwards
“I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.” FeelingsJesusChristFiguresJesus ChristJewGospelThere Is No GodLuminousThere Being No GodNazareneWho Jesus Is Author:Albert Einstein
“On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin - who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. So it goes.” MindDiesJesusInterestChristFiguresTaughtJesus ChristImprovementEngagingCorpsesPilgrimBilly Pilgrim Book:SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
“I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.” IdeasJesusChristSawsFiguresJesus ChristExtraordinarySymbolsContradictionFigure SkatingCuban Revolution Author:Fidel Castro
“I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.” JesusChristFiguresJesus ChristBelieverHistorianPreacherDominantChristian HeritageNon BelieverNazarethGreat ChristianNazarene Author:H. G. Wells
“I do not know what might be the most fitting description.... I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff: I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.” IfsKnowsSaidMightSpiritJesusChristAcceptingLordFiguresSpeechJesus ChristMercyInfiniteElectionDefinitionsGenreDescriptionSinnerAccurateOur LordFittingLord Jesus ChristPenanceOur Lord Jesus ChristFigures Of SpeechLiterary Genre Author:Pope Francis
“Behind the debris of these self-styled, sullen supermen and imperial diplomatists, there stands the gigantic figure of one person, because of whom, by whom, in whom, and through whom alone mankind might still have hope. The person of Jesus Christ.” PersonsStillsSelfMightJesusChristBehindsMankindFiguresJesus ChristHaving HopeSullenDebris Author:Malcolm Muggeridge
“If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.” IfsGodChristianJesusChristChurchReligiousOur LivesFiguresJesus ChristFooling Ourselves Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer