Fallen Quote by Thomas Paine

“The reason why Jesus got into such severe trouble was that he tried to bring into the present a construction of the world, of…

— Don Cupitt

The resurrection of Jesus was like a boulder crashing into the pool of history.

— Karl Barth

In his own lifetime Jesus made no impact on history. This is something that I cannot but regard as a special dispensation on God's…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

“How could he have abandoned—no, shoved away the most important person in the world to him? The one person in the world to whom…

— Rachel Haimowitz

We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of…

— Raymond Queneau

“Jesus’s rising from the dead was considered as impossible and staggering as such a thing would be considered today. People in the first century…

— Eric Metaxas

“If Jesus had been an actual historical figure we have a thorny paradox. Either this Jesus was a remarkable individual who said and did…

— David Fitzgerald

The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when…

— Albert Schweitzer

When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he…

— Laura Hillenbrand

His glory Jesus Christ does not consist in beingplaced without the confines of history; a more real worship is paid to him, by showing…

— Ernest Renan

“But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. – Mark 9:27”

— Robert J. Morgan