Cross Quote by William H. Willimon Download Open image ““Jesus didn't die as a frustrated failed revolutionary. His death was the revolution.”” — William H. Willimon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cross Death Jesus christ Revolution
“I've always privately suspected that Jesus is in favor of revolutionaries, seeing as how he was a bit of one himself.” — G.N. Chevalier Copy Share Image
“His death had been as futile as his life. He died ingloriously, of a stupid disease, failing once more, even at the end, to… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means.” — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“can think for myself… I am not opposed to Christ, if you like. He was a most humane person, and if He were alive… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I do believe Jesus died so we could feel freed up to go after life to the full, so we would feel equpped to… — Mandy Steward Copy Share Image
“In this way the insurrection began. Death was everywhere. Death was everything. Career. Desire. Dream. Poetry. Love. Youth itself. Dying became just another way… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“It is even possible to be a martyr for the Faith and yet not love Jesus Christ.” — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
“We see the death of dreams and hopes, but Jesus has conquered all death!” — Jayce O'Neal Copy Share Image
“Godly men are not revolutionists: the Lord's way is regeneration, not revolution.” — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
“Jesus-followers should always be ready to die for a cause but never willing to kill for one. THE” — Bruxy Cavey Copy Share Image
“I don’t encourage chaos to initiate a revolution. The only reason to revolt is because the people find the government revolting.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Despite our earnest efforts, we couldn't climb all the way up to God. So what did God do? In an amazing act of condescension, on Good Friday, God climbed down to us, became one with us. The story of divine condescension begins on Christmas and ends on Good Friday. We thought, if there is to be business between us and… — William H. Willimon Copy Share
“To be a Christian means gradually, Sunday after Sunday, to be subsumed into another story, a different account of where we have come from and where we are going, a story that is called “gospel.” You are properly called a “Christian” when it’s obvious that the story told in Scripture is your story, above all other stories that the world… — William H. Willimon Copy Share
“It takes great faith in Easter, particularly faith in the gift of the Holy Spirit, to be honest with our people that we have… — William H. Willimon Copy Share Image
“A good teacher must be content to be a sower rather than a reaper," he said. "Teachers must not expect to see immediate, specific,… — William H. Willimon Copy Share Image
“. . . when we take upon ourselves his yoke of obedience, his yoke is easy, his burden is light (Matt. 11:28-30). When is… — William H. Willimon Copy Share Image
“A sovereign, creative, truthful God is not threatened by our human attempts to describe and better to understand the nature and purposes of God.” — William H. Willimon Copy Share Image
“So there are no nontheologians; there is just good theology and bad theology.” — William H. Willimon Copy Share Image
“We may come singing 'Just As I Am,' but we will not stay by being our same old selves. The needs of the world… — William H. Willimon Copy Share Image
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I do enjoy intense, bloodthirsty action, but I like to blend and cross genres. I don't want to be too predictable. — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
“To endure the cross is not a tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ. When it comes, it is not an accident, but a necessity. It is not the sort of suffering which is inseparable from this mortal life, but the suffering which is an essential part of the specifically Christian… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share
There is a very thin line dividing characterisation from impersonation. I've to make sure I don't cross over into mimicry. — Sushant Singh Rajput Copy Share Image
“God has chosen to save the world through the cross, through the shameful and powerless death of the crucified Messiah. If that shocking event… — Richard Hays Copy Share Image
It's in the vein, somewhere in a cross between The Beatles, Cheap Trick, The Stones, Badfinger, you know, but it's not retro at all.… — Steve Brown Copy Share Image
I'll do my core, I'll do my strength training, I'll do my occasional cross training if I need it. — Mary Cain Copy Share Image
“God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and perfect them. He creates the universe, already foreseeing - or should we say "seeing"? there are no tenses in God - the buzzing cloud of flies about the cross, the flayed back pressed against the uneven stake, the nails driven through the mesial… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share
Some people said my acting was a cross between Euell Gibbons, Rodney Allen Rippy and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. — Wolfman Jack Copy Share Image