Quotes About Jesus

Perfection, then, is not a change in the essential character but the completion of a course. This is precisely what Jesus must have meant when he admonished his disciples and us to 'be perfect,' as our Heavenly Father is perfect.

As I have sought to articulate the case for Jesus in my personal encounters with skeptics and in my preaching at church services designed to reach spiritual seekers, I find myself consistently dealing with five strands of evidence that weave a cogent and convincing apologetic for Christ. Each one of them answers a specific question that is either on the lips or lurking in the back of the minds of people who are investigating whether Christianity can withstand intellectual scrutiny. They

ARE THE RECORDS OF JESUS' LIFE RELIABLE?

DID JESUS EVER CLAIM TO BE GOD?

QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION AND DISCUSSION Jesus asked his disciples, "Who do you say I am?" How would you answer this question? What evidence would you use to support your conclusion? What evidence for the reliability of the Gospels is most compelling to you? Why? If Jesus believed he was God and fulfilled the attributes of God, then what are three implications, first, for other religions and, second, for yourself?

DID JESUS REALLY PERFORM MIRACLES?

My relationship with God is intimate and personal. The Christian does not go to the temple to worship. The Christian takes the temple with him or her. Jesus lifts us beyond the building and pays the human body the highest compliment by making it His dwelling place, the place where He meets with us. Even today He would overturn the tables of those who make it a marketplace for their own lust, greed, and wealth.

Nunca podremos ser como Dios, pero sí podemos concluir la tarea que nos ha asignado. Por eso, Jesús demostró que la mejor manera de cumplir el propósito de Dios es obedecer siempre la voluntad del Padre, aun cuando él parezca distante.

Jesus worked by changing the heart, not by legislating. Legislation can only force compliance. It can never produce the love necessary to change an attitude. Jesus

La fe cristiana no es un salto a la oscuridad. Es una confianza bien puesta en la Luz del mundo, Jesús.

oxígeno es para el cerebro, Jesús es para nuestros corazones. Satisface nuestros más profundos deseos como nadie más puede hacerlo. Y nos hace pensar correctamente

A moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God. This is the cardinal difference between the moralizing religions and Jesus' offer to us. Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

May I suggest that the challenge of Jesus' earthly ministry was to enable us to see the message so that the picture could be understood.

One can go down the line and see that every claim that Jesus made of Himself challenged my culture's most basic assumptions about life and meaning. (It is important to remember, of course, that these basic religions within the Indian framework are also not in concert with each other. Buddha was a Hindu before he rejected some of Hinduism's fundamental doctrines and conceived in their place the Buddhist way. Islam radically differs from Hinduism.) Ironically

Pe cruce, Isus ne-a d?ruit darul suprem al bun?t??ii nemeritate.

The temple was the Jewish people's stronghold and refuge. Solomon had built it and had spoken profound proverbs. Jonah was the messenger to the Gentile nations and had survived three days of what should have been certain death. Jesus here was saying that he was greater and had a greater message than all three.

Even if they are teaching truth, all others who have claimed or been accorded prophetic status are still at best human beings on whom this call from God was bestowed. Their assignment is a given one; they are the human receptors. Jesus, in distinction, is the Supreme Giver Himself. He is "from above," say the Gospel writers.

Al contrario de cualquier otro líder religioso de la historia, Jesús tenía un origen que apuntaba a su origen verdadero y eterno.

Even the Koran, written six hundred years after Jesus, affirmed His virgin birth (see Surah 19, 19-21). This would serve Islam no self-glorifying purpose.

Sólo Jesús brilla como alguien sin mancha, no tocado por el pecado.

will be with Yeshu Baba, because he is Jesus, the Savior of the world.

Mirarea v? îmbog??eÈ™te doar dac? v? faceÈ›i timp s? reflectaÈ›i asupra m?reÈ›iei credinÈ›ei voastre în Isus Cristos.

No hay ninguna otra doctrina que yo más quisiera quitar del cristianismo, que la doctrina del infierno, si eso estuviera en mi poder. Pero ella tiene todo el apoyo de las Escrituras y, especialmente, de las palabras de nuestro Señor Jesucristo; ella siempre ha sido sostenida por el cristianismo; y tiene el apoyo de la razón".

To paraphrase C. S. Lewis, Jesus is not safe, but he is good. He does not always do what we expect, but what he does is always for the best.