Home / Topics / Jesus Quotes

Jesus Quotes

Browse 9740 quotes about Jesus.

Jesus Quotes

“Perhaps the greatest contribution that those of us who come from a Christian tradition can make is to throw out the old just-war theory, embrace the nonviolence of Jesus, refuse to kill one another, and truly follow his commandment to "love our enemies.”

War Christian Jesus Peace Christianity Enemy Theory Tradition Embrace Refuse Contribution Nonviolence Commandments Just War

Book:The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland

Source: The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland

“Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.”

“Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since.”

Jesus Heaven Levels Christianity Cold Please Tradition Graves Doctrine Apostles

Book:The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929

Source: The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929

“There seems to be something poetically that doesn't work or is limiting when you call God 'God' in a poem. When I tried to be honest with myself in my relationship with God, Christ is, on the one hand, completely dark, he's transcendent and unknown. On the other hand, he is completely imminent and completely knowable as Jesus. Our tradition speaks of him in both ways as transcendent but also as a lover who comes to us, and the two word 'Dark One' seem to me to contain both things, the transcendence and otherness of Christ, but also like a kind of dark lover who comes to us.”

Way Kind Two Hands Seems Jesus Speak Christ Dark Honest Lovers Tradition Being Honest Transcendence Transcendent Relationship With God Otherness

Author:Kevin Hart

“Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors to the religion of their community; neither of them wrote anything; both of them were executed; and both have become the subject of traditions that are difficult or impossible to harmonize.”

Jesus Difficult Christ Community Teacher Impossible Subjects Jesus Christ Tradition Simplicity Outstanding Traitor

Book:Jesus through the centuries: Mary through the centuries

Source: Jesus through the centuries: Mary through the centuries

“Don't worry about wearing the sign; be the sign. You don't have to wear a sandwich board saying, "I am religious and spiritual and know what you should do." You do have to be the best of the mystical presence that your tradition brings. Certainly in Christianity, that means that you begin to go through life putting on the mind of Jesus, trying to see the world as Jesus saw the world.”

Knows World Should Trying Mind Mean Spiritual Jesus Religious Christianity Worry Saws Tradition Boards Being The Best Mystical Sandwiches

Author:Joan D. Chittister