Messiah Quotes

The simplest questions are the most difficult.

— William S. Burroughs

We must not look for some kind of Messiah.

— Neil Kinnock

I am a messiah. Ask anyone on the Internet.

— Warren Ellis

If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus.

— Rob Bell

“Everyone is his or her own messiah.”

— James Edwin Gunn

“We are the messiah for somebody if not for everybody.”

— Harold Kushner

Jesus did not come to be the Messiah

— John Hagee

“Jesus: You picked the wrong Messiah to fuck with!”

— Rick Klaus Theis

The saddest thing is a messiah with no one willing to kill him

— Boaz Zippor

If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming

— Ahad Ha'am

Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.

— Wendy Wasserstein

Think about these once in awhile, and watch your answers change.

— Richard Bach

Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.

— John Ortberg

Any religion whose messiah’s name isn’t recognized by Microsoft Word can’t be that much of a threat.

— Stephen Colbert

Every Messiah fails, the moment he tries to redeem himself.

— Michael Chabon

For every second of time was the strait gate through which the Messiah might enter.

— Walter Benjamin

One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as…

— Jack Schwartz

When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from…

— Christopher Hitchens

There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's…

— Lupe Fiasco

“Strange, how the name Israel, God's own chosen nation, who don't believe Jesus to be the Messiah, sounds almost the same as…

— Anthony Liccione

The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.

— Dave Brubeck

Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is…

— Richard Bach

“Mine is the only view that appropriately combines the end-time messianic expectations of the Jews with Christian scripture.”

— Eli Of Kittim

We are in need of a way out of our poverty of soul and the desperate state of our human condition. We…

— Stephen Nichols

Obama is correct in saying that the world is ready for someone like him ... a messiah-like figure, charismatic and glib ...…

— Hal Lindsey

I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation…

— Angela Carter

No previous civilization has been able to achieve it, nor can we see even in the remote distance, that day of the…

— Leon Pinsker

There is nothing more negative than the result of the critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who…

— Albert Schweitzer

“God, deities and prophets thrive on obscurity, and it does not necessarily have to be material obscurity, often it is intellectual, as…

— Abhijit Naskar

“They declared, ‘We have put to death the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, the Messenger of God.’ They did not kill him,…

— Anonymous

“The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive,…

— Aldous Huxley

“One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hundred awkward questions to the faithful. He drew upon himself…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Yāwshu (Jesus) is the son of the Canaano-Phoenician Most High God Ēl-Alyon, being the Son of the Virgin Lady Maryām by the…

— Karim El Koussa

“The central fact of biblical history, the birth of the Messiah, more than any other, presupposes the design of Providence in the…

— Vladimir Solovyov

“I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring.…

— Christopher Hitchens

When we begin to understand the magnitude of [the Messiah's] sacrifice and service to us individually and collectively, we then cannot consider…

— Cecil O. Samuelson

“When the Messiah comes, many will try to play their own songs on His harp. The results will be tragically dissonant. On…

— Richard Wurmbrand

“Other prophets, other messiahs, came and went in Jesus’ day. Routinely, they died violently at the hands of the pagan enemy. Their…

— Marcus J. Borg

“The [ancient] Jews [used to] say, ‘Ezra is the son of God,’ and the Christians say, ‘The Messiah is the son of…

— Anonymous