Sermon on the mount Quote by Eric Metaxas

“The ethics of the Sermon on the Mount are nothing less than extraordinary. To look at them as something that can be fulfilled within…

— Stephen J. Nichols

“The rich world of his ancestors set the standards for Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s own life. It gave him a certainty of judgment and manner that…

— Eric Metaxas

“The men buckled on their weapons and started outside amid high expectations, taking care not to leave their backs unguarded -- just in case…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

“Bonhoeffer's emphasis on the deep this -worldliness of Christianity does not lead to de-eschatologizing the gospel.”

— G C Berkouwer

“Bonhoeffer himself knew that in all of it, he was being utterly obedient to God. For him, that was the cantus firmus that made…

— Eric Metaxas

When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which…

— David Kirk

“We’re not our brother’s keeper, Joseph. In fact, it’s an insult to our brother to presume he can’t take care of himself.”

— Dennis Lehane

“… I went back to the stories people wrote about Him. It was mostly crazy stories written by people who called themselves Matthew, Mark,…

— Elizabeth Tebby Germaine

“But it seemed manipulative to me to make the hungry sit like good dogs for their supper. And it did not surprise me that…

— Ron Hall

“Though there were many auspicious signs that preceded and accompanied Jesus's birth that might have prepared us for something kingly and special, the birth…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“What he liked about his brother, he said, is that he made people become what they didn't think they could become. He twisted something…

— Colum McCann

“While Joseph's brothers made a pile Joseph suffered for a while That while did not seem a lengthy season With no design, no rhyme…

— Leonard Ravenhill