Apocalyptic expectations ran riot in 1917, and had a major influence on Allied policies towards Palestine and the Jewish people. The propaganda… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
Zen says that if you drop knowledge - and within knowledge everything is included; your name, your identity, everything, because this has… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Our crucifixes exhibit the pain, but they veil, perhaps necessarily, the obscenity: but the death of the God-Man was both.” — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion,… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
“The old must be torn down for the new to be raised; to have a resurrection you must have a crucifixion, but… — Wm. Paul Young Copy Share Image
The man with a cross no longer controls his destiny; he lost control when he picked up his cross. That cross immediately… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Truth will always reassert itself, given a symbolic three days. Three days represents the time it takes between the crucifixion and the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Listening to the Gospel on Palm Sunday, it struck me that many people criticise Pontius Pilate for his role in the affair… — auberon waugh Copy Share Image
“Jesus didn’t die to save me from God. Jesus died to save me from myself.” — Ricky Maye Copy Share Image
“Despite our earnest efforts, we couldn't climb all the way up to God. So what did God do? In an amazing act… — William H. Willimon Copy Share Image
“And dozens of tiny hands reached up, and cast back dozens of tiny hoods. The robes fell away, revealing a motley of… — Phillip Andrew Bennett Low Copy Share Image
The message of "falling" - failure, death, crucifixion, whatever you want to say - is not really that. Some sort of falling… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most telling witness against the claim of accurate history for the Bible comes when we read the earliest narrative of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Jesus' death was seen by Jesus himself ... as the ultimate means by which God's kingdom was established. The crucifixion was the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“The requirement by some Christians that others be Biblically 'ennobling' (lovingly building-them-up) by showing resilience & self-restraint in the face of their… — Gary Patton Copy Share Image
Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the New Testament the crucifixion is portrayed… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do… — Abraham Myerson Copy Share Image
