JESUS QUOTES
quotations about Jesus Christ
Jesus never let me down
You know Jesus used to show me the score
Then they put Jesus in show business
Now it's hard to get in the door.
U2
"If God Will Send His Angels"
Jesus promised his disciples three things--that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
WILLIAM BARCLAY
The Gospel of Luke
No man can be a friend of Jesus Christ who is not a friend of his neighbor.
ROBERT HUGH BENSON
The Friendship of Christ
Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.
RICHARD BAXTER
"Resignation", The Saints' Everlasting Rest
He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.
JOHN LOCKE
The Reasonableness of Christianity
Jesus was no school-man, was no ecclesiastic, was no heresiarch. He spoke the language and the truth and the religion of a simple, artless, deep-centered representative of universal humanity--true always, everywhere, and for all.
HENRY WHITNEY BELLOWS
Twenty-Four Sermons Preached in All Souls Church, New York
I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
letter to Theo van Gogh, Oct. 1884
Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
In a believer's ear!
It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,
And drives away his fear.
JOHN NEWTON
Olney Hymns
The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.
HORACE MANN
Thoughts
Jesus ... associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
JOHN ORTBERG
Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them
It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.
C. S. LEWIS
letter, November 8, 1952
When I contrast the loving Jesus, comprehending all things in his ample and tender charity, with those who profess to bear his name, marking their zeal by what they do not love, it seems to me as though men, like the witches of old, had read the Bible backward, and had taken incantations out of it for evil, rather than inspiration for good.
E. H. CHAPIN
Living Words
That Christ died for his people, not merely for their good, but in their room and place, is a fundamental article of our holy religion, and a grand peculiarity of the gospel; though regarded by many as only a speculative point, and by many traduced as a senseless absurdity, inconsistent with reason, and the perfections of Deity. And here I must confess, that if we were not to attend to the sacred oracles as our rule; if we were not solely conducted in our researches by the light of nature and reason, our cause is lost. For, though the doctrine itself is not contrary to sound reason, it is the mystery of his will, which is hid from the wise and prudent, and which would never have entered into our thoughts, if God had not been pleased to reveal it. Let us go to the law and testimony; and, according to the observation of a very eminent divine, the death of Christ is exhibited in three capital views; as a price, a punishment, and as a sacrifice. And it will, from every one of these appear, with the brightest evidence, that the death of Christ was a true and proper satisfaction in the room of his elect people.
WILLIAM MCEWEN
"On Christ Dying in the Stead of Sinners", Select Essays Doctrinal & Practical on a Variety of the Most Important and Interesting Subjects in Divinity
Christ's sympathies are broader and His love is larger than we think.... We hedge him round with our poor creeds, and shut Him up in our little churches, and think He works only in our appointed ways. He breaks over the barriers we put about him, and carries on His work of love in hearts that we think are beyond all reach of Him or us. We cannot tell our brother how to find the light. The light will find him.
LYMAN ABBOTT
Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish
The mind of Christ was a pure mind. We need recall the atmosphere of the four Gospel records of His life to realize that this was true. Sullen sinners slunk away before the pure eyes of the Lord; but, the penitent lay at His feet. Both in different ways acknowledged His purity. For us to have this mind of Christ in its perfection is an impossibility. As an ideal, however, it must be striven for.
PASTOR B. R. BIORN
wedding ceremony of Carol Joy Erickson and Walter C. Beglau, November 1, 1943
I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
JESUS CHRIST
John 14:6
The greatest need in the world is the transformation of human nature. We need a new heart that will not have lust and greed and hate in it. We need a heart filled with love and peace and joy, and that is why Jesus came into the world.
BILLY GRAHAM
Just As I Am
Jesus did not turn the disciples into storm troopers, burn down the Temple at Jerusalem, and fix the blame on Pontius Pilate. On the contrary, he made it clear that the business of the philosopher was to make ideas available, and not to impose them on people.
T. H. WHITE
The Once and Future King
Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit