The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels…

The New Testament was not produced as a single work issued by an authoritative Church for the instruction of its members. The four Gospels…

— Frederic G. Kenyon

What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other and where…

— William Irwin Thompson

They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet…

— John Milton

“To be human is nothing less than to be caught in the great congested pilgrimage of existence and to join ourselves freely to it…

— Eugene Kennedy

“But the Gospels actually taught this: Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn’t well connected.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah’s history…

— Eli Of Kittim

Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed and that the Gospels contain plenty of valuable evidence which has to…

— Graham Stanton

“If Jesus really were equal with God from “the beginning,” before he came to earth, and he knew it, then surely the Synoptic Gospels…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“It was The Gospel From Outer Space, by Kilgore Trout. It was about a visitor from outer space...[who] made a serious study of Christianity,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Burridge goes on to say, “[T]rying to decode the Gospels through the genre of modern biography, when the author encoded his message in the…

— Trent Horn

In the New Testament alone there are Gospels, acts, epistles, and an apocalypse. Gospels contain literary forms like miracles, parables, pronouncements, proverbs, farewell discourses,…

— Craig Blomberg

All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone…

— C. S. Lewis

“Nonviolence is the very essence of the gospels.”

— Helene Iswolsky

“I argue that the Jesus of the Gospels is essentially a myth. The Gospels are largely fiction. They were created around the turn of…

— Alvar Ellegård

I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe