“You know what politique is? It is the French word for a lie. Kdoub! Politique! When you hear the French say: our politique, you know they mean: our lies. And when you hear the Moslems, the Friends of Independence, say: our politique, you know they mean: our lies. All lies are sins. And so, which displeases Allah more, a lie told by a Nazarene, who doesn’t know the true faith from the false, or a lie told by a Moslem, who does?” TruthPoliticsLiesColonialismFrenchSinsMoroccoPolitiqueNazareneFrench MoroccoMoslemFrench Colonialism Book:The Spider's House Source: The Spider's House
“Yes, but perhaps he did have something to do with it.” (In such arguments Stenham often found himself unexpectedly extolling the bourgeois virtues.) “If he was good himself, and worked hard—” “Never!” cried Amar, his eyes blazing. “You’re a Nazarene, a Christian. That’s why you talk that way. If you were a Moslem and said such things, you’d be killed or struck blind here, this minute. Christians have good hearts, but they don’t know anything. They think they can change what has been written. They’re afraid to die because they don’t understand what death is for. And if you’re afraid to die, then you don’t know what life is for. How can you live?” LifeChristianDeathExistenceDestinyIslamSurrenderMeaning Of LifeColonialismWillMoroccoNazareneFrench MoroccoMoslem Book:The Spider's House Source: The Spider's House
“That still did not invalidate their purity in his eyes, so long as they continued to live the way they lived: sitting on the floor, eating with their fingers, cooking and sleeping first in one room, then in another, or in the vast patio with its fountains, or on the roof, leading the existence of nomads inside the beautiful shell which was the house. If he had felt that they were capable of discarding their utter preoccupation with the present, in order to consider the time not yet arrived, he would straightway have lost interest in them and condemned them as corrupt.” BeautifulFuturePresentCorruptMoroccoCondemnNomadsNazareneMoslemUncorruptedUnspoiledFrench Colonial Book:The Spider's House Source: The Spider's House
“Jesus never called the poor 'lazy,' fought for tax cuts for the wealthiest Nazarenes or asked a leper for a copay.” JesusPoorCuttingTaxesLazyTax CutsLeperNazarene Author:John Fugelsang
“Are there not thousands who have loved virtue who did not accept Jesus Christ in any supernatural or miraculous fashion, who, if they knew of him at all, knew of him only as the Nazarene peasant - the man Jesus. Such was Abraham Lincoln, the tender prophet of the gospel of good will upon earth.” IfsMenEarthJesusChristAcceptingVirtueAtheismFashionHe ManJesus ChristPositive AtheismProphetMiraculousGood WillPeasantsAbrahamNazarene Author:Jenkin Lloyd Jones
“Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is unconditional and inexorable. ... The lowly Nazarene taught us the doctrine of non-resistance, and so convinced was he of the soundness of that doctrine that he sealed his belief with death on the cross. ... When human law conflicts with Divine law, my duty is clear. Conscience, my infallible guide, impels me to tell you that prison, death, or both, are infinitely preferable to joining any branch of the Army.” MenHumansArtLawFatherBeliefHeavenClearTaughtDivineBrotherDutyConflictConscienceCrossesArmyPrisonGuidesConvincedResistanceDoctrineBranchesCommandmentsUnconditionalOur FatherNationalityJoiningTaught UsInfallibleInexorableClear ConscienceSoundnessDivine LawNazarene Author:Ben Salmon
“My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And shed come over and pick us boys up, and we would go to the Nazarene church. And back then, that was about as close to heaven as I ever got, because just the time to be able to spend with her, and she was very, very religious.” MadeAbleHeavenChurchReligiousBoysPicksGrandmotherSundayShedMy GrandmotherNazarene Author:John Mellencamp
“Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death. Christianity, on the other hand leads only the natural body to death, and for the spirit, it points out a house not built with hands, eternal in the heavens... Let me urge you to follow Him, not as the Nazarene, the Man of Galilee, the carpenter's son, but as the ever living spiritual person, full of love and compassion, who will stand by you in life and death and eternity.” MenPersonsBodyHandsSpiritualSpiritHouseHeavenNaturalAttentionCompassionChristianityLandHe ManSonEternalBuiltLet MeEternityLife And DeathUrgesMaterialismGoodsWorldlyLureLove And CompassionCarpenterMiragesNazarene Author:James A. Garfield
“From these Christians who came to [Avalon] to escape the bigotry of their own kind I learned something, at last, of the Nazarene, the carpenter's son who had attained Godhead in his own life and preached a rule of tolerance; and so I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.” KindChristianLastsChristSonFoolishTolerancePriestsBigotryQuarrelsCarpenterAvalonNazarene Author:Marion Zimmer Bradley
“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
“The history of the church has been largely a history of "believers" refusing to believe in the way of the crucified Nazarene and instead giving in to the very temptations he resisted--power, relevancy, spectacle.” WayGivingBelieveHas BeensChurchBelieverTemptationGiving InNazarene Book:Jesus for President Source: Jesus for President
“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 am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful." He further added: "No man can read the gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life...Theseus and other heroes of his type lack the authentic vitality of Jesus.” MenFeelingsJesusFiguresTypePersonalityHeroFilledJewMythPensVitalityLuminousColossalTheseusNazarene Author:Albert Einstein
“We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it.” MenGivingChristianReligiousMissionsDebtChristian InspirationalEvery ManMissionaryReceivingMottoMissions And PrayerDebtorsGreat MissionaryInspirational MissionaryNazarene Author:Phineas F. Bresee
“Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is pitied, for Humanity believes He was crucified painfully. . . . And all that Humanity offers to Him is crying and wailing and lamentation. For centuries Humanity has been worshiping weakness in the person of the Savior. The Nazarene was not weak! He was strong and is strong! But the people refuse to heed the true meaning of strength.” PeopleBelieveLooksPersonsHas BeensHumanityJesusBeliefStrongBornPoorCenturyCryOffersWeaknessWeakMiseryRefuseLook UpSaviorHumiliationHeedTrue MeaningWailingLamentationNazarene Author:Khalil Gibran
“The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who lifted the lowly, strengthened the weak, ate with publicans, and made the captives free. In the light of this divine example, the doctrines of demagogues shiver in their chaff.” LifeMadeStillsDreamLightSpiritBornTeachingExampleDivineWeakMercyDoctrineDivinityAmerican DreamMercifulCaptivesShiverStill LifeNazarene Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a greater power and more real than vengeance. The second proclaimed the earth to be a sphere revolving in its course around the sun. These affirmations were made in the face of all evidence sacred to the contrary.” FirstsMadeTwoRealEarthFacesCoursesLove IsSunGreaterMankindEffectsEvidenceSacredContrarySpheresAffirmationVengeanceRevolvingGreater PowerInversionsNazarene Author:Louis Sullivan