Belief Quote by Daniel Webster

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.

— Stanley Hauerwas

The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the…

— Oswald Chambers

The Sermon on the Mount does not provide humanity with a complete guide to personal, social and economic problems. It sets forth spiritual attitudes,…

— Robert McCracken

“Heard as a moralist’s diatribe, the Sermon on the Mount is an impossible-to-bear judgment. Read as a series of mandates for Jesus’ disciples, it…

— Rubel Shelly

The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to…

— Oswald Chambers

“These sermons of Jesus Christ are meant for your will and your conscience, not for your head. If you dispute these verses from the…

— Oswald Chambers

If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come anywhere near.…

— Oswald Chambers

“It is a very terrible sermon, this Sermon on the Mount. Be very careful as you read it, and especially when you talk about…

— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our mission work…

— Heidi Baker

If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.

— William Jennings Bryan

Humanly speaking, it is possible to understand the Sermon on the Mount in a thousand different ways. But Jesus knows only one possibility: simple…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a…

— Anonymous