Quotes on Jesus

There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus, meek and mild, that the idea of eternal torture for minor transgressions is introduced.

I look at Guy Fieri and I just think, 'Jesus, I'm glad that's not me.'

We must walk united with our differences: there is no other way to become one. This is the way of Jesus.

After creation God said, 'It is finished'-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, 'It is finished'-and we can rest.

And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.

In order to see Jesus, we first need to let him look at us!

The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though that would be good). Rather, his teachings and behaviour reflect an alternative social vision. Jesus was not talking about how to be good and how to behave within the framework of a domination system. He was a critic of the domination system itself.

Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

Let Jesus preach to you, and and let Jesus heal you. We are all wounded. Everyone.

I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration.

Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpent-like qualities is to be sentimental, anemic and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.

But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.”

O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of His hands.

Prayer is the hand of faith on the door knob of your heart, inviting Jesus to enter.

Justification by religious performances, and meritorious deeds, is nothing better than the old Pharisaism with a Christian name stuck upon it. . . That doctrine makes the Lord Jesus Christ to be practically a nobody; for if salvation be of works, then the way of salvation through faith in a Savior is superfluous, and even mischievous

God wants you to find your way back to Him, and the Savior is the way. God wants you to learn of His Son, Jesus Christ, and experience the profound peace and joy that come from following the path of divine discipleship.

One of the great consolations . . . is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not have to do so.

The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down.

If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.

Love for family and friends, great as it may be, is much more profound when anchored in the love of Jesus Christ. Parental love for children has more meaning here and hereafter because of Him. All loving relationships are elevated in Him. Love of our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ provides the illumination, inspiration, and motivation to love others in a loftier way.