Quotes About Jesus

All day long the thoughts that occupy your mind, your Secret Place, as Jesus calls it, are moulding your destiny for good or evil; in fact, the truth is that the whole of our life's experience is but the outer expression of inner thought.

I met Jesus,' mumbled Vern, his head coming up. 'He weren't even a good carpenter.

The Bible, however, does present a single picture, complex though it is, of at least one human life: the "image of God" that is granted in the creation of Adam and then presented as the created divine power itself, the Son of God, Jesus the Christ.

Many came to Jesus expecting him to solve their problems. Instead he helped them to connect to their own faith and their own wisdom.

The Alexandrian Mystics taught that Jesus' divinity with a capital D and his humanity with a lower case h are always in dynamic tension and can never be separated.

The spirit of the Gospels is the all inclusive love of Jesus, which jumps off the pages.

To this day the Oriental Orthodox Church asserts that after the incarnation Jesus was "one united dynamic nature": "at once God and human . . ." Ultimately, a Divine mystery—a paradox.

We need precise words for Jesus. Otherwise, Christian theology is built on a foundation of sand.

When it comes to his Divinity, Jesus is equal with God. When it comes to his humanity, Jesus is subordinate to God.

Jesus was contemplative and activist, mystic and prophet, Spirit and form, God and human, absolute and relative, Creator and creature, existing for eternity and existing in time.

I adore a God who is beyond words yet contained in the word Jesus.

Jesus always existed. At the same time Jesus was begotten (made human). This is the perplexing and elusive mystic core of Christian faith.

Let the little ones come to me and forbid them not," he told me, repeating Jesus' words, "because, boy, the kingdom of heaven is filled with little people, and that doesn't mean in size. That means people who are disenfranchised and know that they need God—that's who teaches us.

You... you're--' 'A virgin?' Jonah's voice cracked in the middle of that hated word. 'Holy fucking merciful Christ giving Peter a blow job.' 'Jesus,' Jonah breathed. 'Came first?' Amelia said, popping out of the ladies' room with impeccable timing. 'God, Ethan, that was the best blasphemy ever!'

Because you drank enough vodka to fund an entire Russian coup," she muttered. "Jesus—you almost told your father you were gay, do you know that?

IT WOULD BE REALLY pretty easy to be virtuous, be that disciple of Jesus, if it weren't for one big problem. Those other people. Yeah. Them.

Religion has been defined as designed to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. We do well to think of the parables of Jesus as doing the afflicting. Therefore, if we hear a parable and think, 'I really like that' or, worse, fail to take any challenge, we are not listening well enough.

For far too long Jesus has been the wedge that drives Christians and Jews apart. I suggest that we can also see him as a bridge between us.

A critically aware, historically informed study of Jesus in his Jewish context does more than provide benefits to Christians and Jews alike; it aids in preventing the anti-Semitism that tends to arise when the history is not known. The concern to recover Jesus's Jewishness is these days particularly urgent.

By seeing Jesus as a Jew with regard to both belief and practice, Christians can develop a deeper appreciation for the teachings of the church.

The new covenant that Jesus offers, in his body and blood, does not replace the old covenants with Abraham or Moses or David. It rather is a continuation of them.

For Luke, Isaiah's proclamation has new meaning: The "Lord" for Luke is Jesus of Nazareth, and the "way" to be prepared is not a literal highway in the desert, but the new movement that called itself not "Christian" but followers of "the Way" (see Acts 9:2).

In John's version of the Temple incident, Jesus anticipates the time when there will no longer be a need for vendors, for every house not only in Jerusalem but in all of Judea shall be like the Temple itself. The sacred nature of the Temple will spread through all the people.

Jesus' words, citing Zechariah, do even more. They anticipate a time when all peoples, all nations, can worship in peace, and in love. There is no separation between home and house of worship, because the entire land lives in a sanctified state.