Top 179 Gospels Quotes & Sayings

I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.

The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.

The crime of liberation theology was that it takes the Gospels seriously. That's unacceptable. The Gospels are radical pacifist material, if you take a look at them . . . Liberation theology, in Brazil particularly, brought the actual Gospel to peasants. They said, let's read what the Gospels say, and try to act on the principles they describe. That was the major crime that set off the Reagan wars of terror.

Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.

The Jesus of the Gospels is surely not convenient for us.

I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory.

Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.

The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.

If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy.

All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could not have been invented.

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.

There are five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and the Christian. Most people will never read the first four.

The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.

Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.

The stories about the life and teachings of Jesus were mainly told in Greek, the original language of the gospels.

I argue that the resurrection was not the Great Resuscitation. It was a total transformation. I just don't accept the black-and-white thinking that goes along with needing to regard the gospels are literally true.

I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever I go. So there it is, with all its beautiful purposelessness, and it has become very familiar to me though I do not know "what it is." Or even if it is an "it." Not to be foolish and multiply words, I'll say simply that it seems to me that Zen is the very atmosphere of the Gospels, and the Gospels are bursting with it. It is the proper climate for any monk, no matter what kind of monk he may be. If I could not breathe Zen I would probably die of spiritual asphyxiation.

In the New Testament alone there are Gospels, acts, epistles, and an apocalypse. Gospels contain literary forms like miracles, parables, pronouncements, proverbs, farewell discourses, annunciations, and so on. Epistles can be apologetic, commendatory, friendship-oriented, exhortational, diatribes.

The level above Man is called the Kingdom of Heaven or Kingdom of God in the Gospels. It has many other names in different writings. In the Gospels, it is said that the Kingdom of Heaven is within. It is at a higher level of a man. To reach it, a man must reach a higher level in himself. If everyone did this, the level of life on this earth would change.

The trouble with Christianity was that by about 150, there were hardly any Jews left in the Christian church, and so from that time until the last part of the twentieth century, the only people reading the gospels and interpreting the gospels and writing commentaries on the gospels were gentiles who were simply ignorant of the Jewish background, and I just thought they were prejudiced.

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.

Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?

There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.'

For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the New Testament.

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.

Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.

We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected.

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.

Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed and that the Gospels contain plenty of valuable evidence which has to be weighed and assessed critically.

I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.

Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals.

Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as presented by Jesus in the Gospels.

How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?

The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.

Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.

Although the gospels of the New Testament-- like those discovered at Nag Hammadi-- are attributed to Jesus' followers, no one knows who actually wrote any of them.

Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with that presupposed in the gospels that the latter must be dismissed as secondary embellishments, especially as 1 Corinthians predates the gospels.

If the evidence supports the historical accuracy of the gospels, where is the need for faith? And if the historical reliability of the gospels is so obvious, why have so many scholars failed to appreciate the incontestable nature of the evidence?

All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.

We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

'The Scarlet Gospels' does, by general consensus, seem to mark a new high - or low, depending on your point of view - in its excessiveness, in its extremities.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

I read the New Testament, specifically the gospels and I was struck at their divinity, feeling that humans could not have figured this out on their own. We're just not bright enough.

Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.

You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.

If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

All archaeologists in Israel and Palestine make use of the New Testament Gospels. They do this because the Gospels exhibit verisimilitude. In short, the Gospels help archaeologists know where to dig and they help archaeologists understand what they unearth. The 2nd-century Gospels and Gospel-like writings rarely exhibit verisimilitude, so archaeologists rarely appeal to them.

I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point.

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.

I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.