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- Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
- In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand…
- When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not…
- Charles Williams has said of the Lord's Prayer, "No word in English carries a greater possibility of terror than the little word 'as' in that…
- Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus' love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace. That does not mean, of course, that Christians should…
- If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
- What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity.
- The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the…
- I once heard a theologian remark that in the Gospels people approached Jesus with a question 183 times whereas he replied with a direct answer…
- All of the images of Jesus and of the kingdom are small things: be a light in the darkness.
- The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.
- In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.
- We are all trophies of God's grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for the sinner and…
- Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did…
- On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and…
- Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's…
- Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities…
- The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You…
- Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live…
- When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish…
- Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed…
- We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.
- Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God…
- Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and…
- A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
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- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of… — Teresa of Avila
- If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps… — Teresa of Avila
- Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not… — Teresa of Avila
- Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because… — Teresa of Avila
- You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar. — Sebastian Bach
- The world defines 'waste' very differently than Jesus does. — Michele Bachmann
- Jesus isn't a logo, I'm not promoting some company, some brand. I'm just professing my faith. — Stephen Baldwin
- Loving Jesus is what's most important to me. I know it sounds hokey, but it's the truth. — Stephen Baldwin
- Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a… — William Barclay
- Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way. — Karl Barth