Pilate Quotes

23 quotes by 21 authors

One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them… — Adolf Hitler
Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed from different kinds… — Irenaeus of Lyons
Pilate sentenced him due to fear, in accordance with the petition and intention of others. These people sentence him for their own advantage and without… — Bridget of Sweden
Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship — Ben Lindsey
Jesus' death by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate is as sure as anything historical can ever be. For if no follower of Jesus had written anything… — John Dominic Crossan
For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar. — Wendell Berry
It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest… — C.S. Lewis
The truth is that not yet usually means never. Trying to run away from the responsibility to decide about Christ is childish. Pilate sought to… — Neal A. Maxwell
Christians, for instance, are not, properly speaking, believers in religion; rather, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under Pontius Pilate, rose from the dead… — David Bentley Hart
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing.… — Edmund Burke
The truth comes to rule, not through violence, but rather through its own power; [this is the central theme of John's Gospel:] When brought before… — Pope Benedict XVI
At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus. And his conduct was good, and he was known to be virtuous. And… — Josephus
Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; - but the father, for love! — Octavius Winslow
Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people… — Donna Brazile
My daughter, I see more Pharisees among Christians than there were around Pilate. — Margaret of Cortona
Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the… — Martin Luther
I have studied many religions, many different persuasions of thought in Christian belief, and I have come, in this experience to this: the most important… — Dale Evans
Pilate was merciful till it became risky. — C.S. Lewis
Actually, I played Pontius Pilate as nice. An actor spends his life thinking he is Christ, and then he gets to play the character that… — James Nesbitt

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