Character Quote by Horace Mann

Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.

— Swami Vivekananda

Hence the Bible has no record of his years of preparation; the record is very abrupt. Something about his childhood is said, very fragmentary.…

— Rajneesh

“The very first surviving account of Jesus’s life was written thirty-five to forty years after his death. Our latest canonical Gospel was written sixty…

— Bart D. Ehrman

Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations…

— Thomas Paine

When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's…

— John Strachan

Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior?

— James B. Donovan

If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches? Lemuel K

— Lemuel K Washburn

Jesus was about thirty years old when he began his work.

— Anonymous

The key to ministry in any and every context, both now and for the last two thousand years, is missionary flexibility.

— Darrin Patrick

The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he…

— Rick Warren

Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no one who…

— Leonard Shlain

Christ was one person, limited to ministry in only one place at a time. In order to minister as an omnipresent Spirit, Jesus relinquished…

— Earl Paulk