You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“All of Jesus’ teaching on prayer in the Gospels can be summarized with one word: ask.” — Paul E. Miller Copy Share Image
“Preach the Gospels everyday & only if you have to...use words.” — St. Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“All of what preceded is the unknown (to us) backdrop to some familiar episodes in the Gospels.” — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Injil: The book that Muslims believe Allah sent to Jesus, often considered to be the gospels of the New Testament” — Nabeel Qureshi Copy Share Image
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“With regard to the gospels, biblical scholarship has mixed-up theology with history, thereby turning the eschatology of the epistles into memoirs.” — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
“To be human is nothing less than to be caught in the great congested pilgrimage of existence and to join ourselves freely… — Eugene Kennedy Copy Share Image
How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects? — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
All the Cosmic Drama, as it is written in the four Gospels, should be lived inside ourselves, here and now. The isn't… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many… — Michael W. Smith Copy Share Image
“If there is a single fact which anyone who seriously studies the history of Christianity cannot help but be struck by, it… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
I'm not anti-Semitic. My Gospels are not anti-Semitic. I've shown it to many Jews and they're like, it's not anti-Semitic. It's interesting… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnostic gospels open out the complexity… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
If the evidence supports the historical accuracy of the gospels, where is the need for faith? And if the historical reliability of… — Robert W. Funk Copy Share Image
“The synoptic Gospels of the New Testament manuscripts make us aware of Christ's character and gives us a view of the 'son-ship'… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
If you look at the New Testament, it's a gospel of love. Yes, there's talk of judgement and there's talk of heaven… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“According to the Gospels, Jesus did not tell his listeners to believe whatever they wished to believe as individuals, or to follow… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“This is the homely heart of Incarnation, this meeting of God in man with men and women, this simple face of divine… — Eugene Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Reading and rereading this collection, I encounter the generosity, frailties and strengths, contradictions and contributions of “disappeared” rebels and heretics, of prophets… — Joy James Copy Share Image
“The gospels indicate a development in the apostles' attitude toward Jesus. They first see him as a person of power and only… — William A. Barry Copy Share Image
“We use the gospels. We read them aloud in worship. We often preach from them. But have we even begun to hear… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“So far as we know, Jesus did not write anything, nor did anyone who had personal knowledge of him. There is no… — L. Michael White Copy Share Image
If man had written the Gospels - say Shakespeare or Eugene O'Neill - the story of the gospel would have been drastically… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“No nation, and few individuals, are really brought into [God's] camp by the historical study of the biography of Jesus, simply as… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Burridge goes on to say, “[T]rying to decode the Gospels through the genre of modern biography, when the author encoded his message… — Trent Horn Copy Share Image
One of my great experiences in life was to be interviewed on a late-night talk show by a guy named Tom Snyder.… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats - any kind of threat, whether… — Boris Pasternak; Max Hayward; Manya Harari Copy Share Image
“The Gospel of Mark has some major shortcomings: It contains no birth narrative; it implies that Jesus, a repentant sinner, became the… — Alan Dundes University of California Copy Share Image
“Luke 17:5-6, a Lukan paraphrase of Mark 11:22-24, strikes a surprising note of pessimism: "The apostles said to the Lord, 'Increase our… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“12. Historians today rely on classics like Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, Caesar’s Gallic War, and Tacitus’s Histories. The earliest copies… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“As a Gospel, Matthew is an ancient biography, and the information treated in the introduction to the Gospels in general also applies… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was The Gospel From Outer Space, by Kilgore Trout. It was about a visitor from outer space...[who] made a serious study… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The story of the angel announcing what the church calls the immaculate conception, is not so much as mentioned in the books… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The real difference is this: the Christian says that he has knowledge; the Agnostic admits that he has none; and yet the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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![“No nation, and few individuals, are really brought into [God's] camp by the historical study of the biography of Jesus, simply as biography. The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the Redemption) operating on a a sense…” quote by C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85f/c-s-lewis-121_christianity_no-nation-and-few-individuals-are-really_1546284.jpg)
![“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 genre of ancient [biography], will lead to another nonsense—blaming the text for not containing modern predilections which it was never meant to contain.”286…” quote by Trent Horn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f71/trent-horn-66792_last-supper_burridge-goes-on-to-say-t-rying-to-decod_76757.jpg)
![“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, to learn, if he could, why Christians found it so easy to be cruel. He concluded that at least part of the trouble was slipshod storytelling in the New…” quote by Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e53/kurt-vonnegut-41_bible_it-was-the-gospel-from-outer-space-by-ki_77926.jpg)
