Christianity Quote by Lee Vickers

“Gnostics, in general, are not trying to delineate a set of beliefs. The intent is to inspire the sacred quest for true gnosis and…

— Tau Malachi

Gnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman...they don't want to.

— John Hagee

Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into…

— Carl Jung

“Some people, including some who wanted to think of themselves as followers of Jesus, took exactly that line. We can watch the process taking…

— N.T. Wright

“What interested these gnostics far more than past events attributed to the “historical Jesus” was the possibility of encountering the risen Christ in the…

— Elaine Pagels

“Jesus, I bind the enemy in this situation, and I say, in the name of Jesus, you are forbidden to blind the eyes and…

— Cindy Jacobs

“Rather than being devoted to and dependent on the teaching of the apostles, these groups held that secretly revealed knowledge about Jesus trumped historical…

— Andreas J. Kostenberger

“Gnosticism is undeniably pre-Christian, with both Jewish and gentile roots. The wisdom of Solomon already contained Gnostic elements and prototypes for the Jesus of…

— Arthur Drews

“Bishop Irenaeus of Lyons, a fierce opponent of the Gnostics, attacked them for their spiritual and literary creativity, accusing them of producing a new…

— Stephan A. Hoeller

“Gnostic Christianity depreciates our bodiliness, demeans creation and materiality; it sees salvation as release from embodiment. Identified and refuted as a heresy by the…

— D. Brent Laytham

Within the context of listening and understanding and walking with people together, we discover anew what were the teachings of Jesus, what he presented…

— Joseph Edward Kurtz

And when we come to refute them, we shall show in its fitting place that this class of men [i.e., the gnostics] has been…

— Irenaeus of Lyons