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Jesus Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.
- Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting…
- Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the…
- The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth…
- The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.
- Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as that of Jesus....I…
- The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.
- Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great…
- Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.
- I am a real Christian - that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ.
- I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught…
- To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only…
- The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever more dangerous. Jesus had to work on the perilous confines of reason and…
- If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon him,…
- Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man…
- The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.
- The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be…
- I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man...
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- 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