Quotes of: Jesus-christ Keyword

If Jesus didn't do it, don't say the Father does. If Jesus did do it, don't say the Father doesn't.

D.R. Silva

I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death.

Steven Curtis Chapman

The real cause for Paul’s rejection of the ‘works of the law’ lies beyond both self-understanding and ethics. As we shall see, faith for Paul is the correlate to Christ’s cross and resurrection. It is obedience to the promise of God fulfilled...

Christ, Our Righteousness: Paul's Theology of Justification

God forbid that I should boast of being poor, gentle, and meek. But I am striving to attain these virtues. Every day the exercises, and indeed the whole ascetic discipline of my Yoga, make it easier for the grace of Christ to flow in me. I feel my hu...

Christian Yoga

Conscience, Christ, and the gift of faith make evil men uneasy in their sin. They feel that if they could drive Christ from the earth, they would be free from "moral inhibitions." They forget that it is their own nature and conscience which makes the...

Life of Christ

Pilate, as the histories reveal, was not one for trials. In his ten years as governor of Jerusalem, he had sent thousands upon thousands to the cross with a simple scratch of his reed pen on a slip of papyrus. The notion that he would even be in the ...

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

The Western post-Christian civilization has picked up the Christ without His Cross. But a Christ without a sacrifice that reconciles the world to God is a cheap, colorless, itinerant preacher who deserves to be popular for His great Sermon on the Mou...

Life of Christ

"Love one another" said Christ, but he didn't mention anything about preferences.

Polish

What good is a revolution anyway if it isn’t joyful?

The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic

Jesus didn’t die to save me from God. Jesus died to save me from myself.

Barefoot Christianity

Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.

The Bible Jesus Read

The end of ourselves is the beginning of God

The 180 Degree Christian: Serving Jesus in a Culture of Excess

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Eric Butterworth

Jesus did not only serve the needs of the people, but truly hoped that the people and Jesus would be one.

Greg Boyle

[Regan, possessed, is masturbating with a crucifix] Demon: Let Jesus fuck you, let Jesus fuck you. Let him fuck you.

The Exorcist

Jack didn’t fully get Jesus. Audrey tried to explain it, and he could repeat it back to her, word for word, but he still didn’t comprehend most of it. The best he could gather was that Jesus lived long ago, told people to be nice, and they killed...

Fate's Edge

Would it be worth it to pick up my cross and be crucified next to Jesus? If He is not God, then, no. Lose everything I love to worship a false God? A million times over, no! But if He is God, then yes. Being forever bonded to my Lord by suffering alo...

Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity

No ancient Jew was ever promised, or expected, a heavenly life. That was a wild and outrageous teaching of Jesus. Holy text never offers a heavenly hope--before Jesus. Think about it: No matter how faithful Adam would have been, he could never gradua...

Song of Songs the book for daughters

Then I read that Jesus was a friend of sinners. This still bothers me. Not because Jesus was a friend of sinners (because that came in really handy in my case). It bothered me because if I'm trying to live like Jesus, that means I'm supposed to be a ...

Undefending Christianity: Embracing Truth Without Having All the Answers

My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.

Who Is Jesus? Answers to Your Questions About the Historical Jesus

The character of Jesus is the character of God. God would never do something Jesus would find morally reprehensible, so if you can’t find it in Jesus, then you really ought to think twice before you claim you’ve found it in God.

Young, Restless, No Longer Reformed: Black Holes, Love, and a Journey in and Out of Calvinism