Gospels Quotes
98 quotes by 79 authors
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
— Saint Augustine
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.
— Ludwig von Mises
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On at least four separate occasions and recorded in the four Gospels the Lord Jesus called His disciples to deny their soul life, deliver it…
— Watchman Nee
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That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision…
— Will Durant
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I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however…
— Albert Einstein
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The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
— Charles de Gaulle
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If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is doomed. For that…
— John Shelby Spong
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What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He…
— Boris Pasternak
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Christianity is different from all other religions? They deal with the story of man's search for God. The Gospels deals with the story of God's…
— Dewi Morgan
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Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as…
— Shadia Drury
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Our attitude towards evil must be freed from hatred, and has itself need to be enlightened in character...Satan rejoices when he succeeds in inspiring us…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.
— Rachel Held Evans
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If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take…
— Wendell Berry
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Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. TheÂ…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting could be proved…
— Thomas Paine
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Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning…
— Paul Robeson
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