Quotes About Jesus

Appearances are deceiving when it comes to the Holy Eucharist. It looks like the bread of Jesus' time, tastes like unleavened bread, smells and feels like bread but it's not bread. It's the body and blood, human soul and divine nature of Jesus of Nazareth, risen from the dead.

Jesus did not come back from the grave as a ghost. Nor was it a simple resuscitation of a corpse. Jesus reversed death.

Jesus died with nothing at all and preached that the poor are blessed. He condemned those who have riches and are content that others remain poor.

Jesus rose bodily from the dead. His whole person is with God, but he is still in contact with the world, with each of us. Jesus is with the Father and the Holy Spirit, but he is constantly acting on us in the world. Free of all the bonds of space and time, the risen Jesus can be wherever he wants to be. And he wants to be with us.

Our love can be no more partial than Jesus' love for all those he died to save

The God who is Lord of the universe, the personal God who created and sustains our world so that it does not fall back into nothingness, the God who saves us through the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, seeks to be the center of each and every human life.

To despoil oneself of all wealth in Jesus' name is a sign of faith in Divine Providence.

Whatever our level of education, we can truly read and understand the Scriptures in the light of our faith in Jesus, the living Word, who is present and speaks to us today in and through his Church. Outside of that faith, no one can do theology or understand Scripture as God intends it to be understood.

Remember, Satan fears virtue. He is terrified of humility; he hates it because humility is the surrender of the soul to the Lord, and the devil is terrified of Jesus Christ.

How do we defeat the enemy? Our victory begins with the name of Jesus on our lips, uttered in fervent prayer. Our triumph is consummated by the transformation of our nature, where Christ Himself dwells as Lord in our hearts. Follow

The only One who has a right to shape our lives is Jesus Christ. We must determine to allow nothing and no one to shape us, not even our personal experiences, unless they are consistent with the promises of God.

Jesus provided reasons to believe through many different means, the most dramatic of which were miracles done in public as authentication

Spirit, who are you?' Andy demanded. Bobby remained silent, his entire body strained, his lips tightly together, his eyes bulging out. He was taking frantic, short breaths through his nose. His face was crimson. Spirit,' said Andy, 'I command you to tell us who you are in Jesus' name!' Don't you mention that name!' the spirit hissed and then cursed. I will mention that name again and again,' said Hank. You know that name has defeated you.

Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?

Our image of God-the-judgmental-deranged-monster badly needed fixing. Jesus came to edit our ideas.

that held no tradition too sacred to question. Jesus was the first of the Enlightenment philosophers. In John 8: 4-7 speaking like some sort of first century Voltaire, Jesus questioned the laws and traditions of his day. "And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and

Jesus' co-suffering love is the best lens through which to consider God, or at least to reconsider ourselves.

every time Jesus mentioned the Torah, he qualified it with something like this: "The scriptures say thus and so, but I say…" I should have said, "Jesus undermined the inerrancy of the scriptures in favor of his version of pragmatic empathy!" or "Every time Jesus undermined the scriptures it was to err on the side of nonjudgmental co-suffering love. So up yours

Our tradition says that Jesus is God. Maybe we should act as if we think he is instead of worshipping a book.

Those of us raised in the Christian tradition need to choose to either see God in Jesus or to continue to let the Bible define God. Our tradition says that Jesus is God. Maybe we should act as if we think he is instead of worshipping a book. Maybe we should be brave enough to admit that we are compelled to either become blinded ideologues or we need to forthrightly pick and choose what we follow in the Bible. Most Christians do that anyway, many just don't admit it.

I shouted, "Jesus liked hanging out with women and kids too! So fuck you!

In short, extensive Bible knowledge, a high-powered intellect, and razor-sharp reasoning skills do not automatically produce spiritual men and women who know Jesus Christ profoundly and who can impart a life-giving revelation of Him to others.

Every year that we grow in the Lord, Jesus Christ looms larger and greater in our eyes.

A word of encouragement: if your foundations are in Jesus Christ, then you can weather the storm.