Top 1200 Historical Jesus Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker

I think a lot of times, the historical piece is often a way to comment on the present.

You can't even go to Heaven if you get killed by Spinach, you can't even go. You don't even know what to tell Jesus. You Just 'You know what Jesus, I did have a salad, I really Did I- I Didn't know what I was thinking about.

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

Christianity is not "Jesus is our example." Christianity is "Jesus is our substitute."

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

Behold in faith the sinless, spotless Lamb of God as having already borne that weight, as having suffered for those sins, as having died for those transgressions, and accept the precious truth that it was God's eternal love that laid them all on Jesus, and that nothing is left for you to do but to believe in Jesus, that He saves to the uttermost all that come unto God by Him.

I have been in the industry for five years and would love to play a historical character.

Me at parties: 'Like, do you want to know the historical context of the prophet Jeremiah?'

As far as reading is concerned, I like historical and political books and works of art.

Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could not convince and sinners he could not convert. Forgiveness of sins requires an act of will on the receiver's part, and some who heard Jesus' strongest words about grace and forgiveness turned away unrepentant.

Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.

I want to bring forth the historical significance of Sreerampur and turn it into a tourism hub.

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

What can realistically be done depends on the historical moment. The same is true with regard to the agents.

God will never, never, never let us down if we have faith and put our trust in Him. He will always look after us. So we must cleave to Jesus. Our whole life must simply be woven into Jesus.

I picture the evidence for the deity of Jesus to be like the fast-moving current in a river. To deny the data would be like swimming upstream against the current. That doesn't make sense. What's logical, based on the strength of the case for Christ, is to swim in the same direction the evidence is pointing by putting your trust in Jesus as your forgiver and leader.

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

Let us be bold enough to ask ourselves as Christians whether the Church of the Lord Jesus in the United States has anything to say to our nation and its ideologies of materialism, possessiveness, and the worship of financial security. Are we courageous enough to be a sign of contradiction to consumerism through our living faith in Jesus Christ? Are we committed enough to his gospel to become a countercurrent to the drift?

The reason the world is not seeing Jesus is that Christian people are not filled with Jesus. They are satisfied with attending meetings weekly, reading the Bible occasionally, and praying sometimes. It is an awful thing for me to see people who profess to be Christians lifeless, powerless, and in a place where their lives are so parallel to unbelievers’ lives that it is difficult to tell which place they are in, whether in the flesh or in the Spirit.

Still I made one excuse after another, and Jesus would answer, 'Go, and I will be with you'... Then Jesus said again, 'Go, and I will be with you.' I cried, 'Lord, I will go. Where shall I go?' And Jesus said, 'Go here, go there, wherever souls are perishing.' Praise the Lord for his wonderful goodness in revealing his word and will in such a wonderful way, to such a poor weak worm of the dust. I saw more in that vision than I could have learned in years of hard study. Praise His Holy Name. I saw that I must not depend on anything that I could do, but to look to Him for strength and wisdom.

As children, Siddhartha and Jesus both realized that life is filled with suffering. The Buddha became aware at an early age that suffering is pervasive. Jesus must have had the same kind of insight, because they both made every effort to offer a way out. We, too, must learn to live in ways that reduce the world's suffering.

That's what lordship is - Christ reigning as supreme authority over our life. Making Jesus Lord of our life is not something passive. It's not a state of being, it's a state of doing. Those whom Jesus recognizes as His own are those who do the will of His Father in heaven.

We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.

Are you debating whether you should take a step of faith in Jesus, or whether you should wait until you can clearly see how to do what He has asked? Simply obey Him with unrestrained joy. When He tells you something and you begin to debate, it is because you have a misunderstanding of what honors Him and what doesn't. Are you faithful to Jesus, or faithful to your ideas about Him?

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair.

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

It seems to me that when we listen to the Muslim mystics as they talk about Jesus and their love for Jesus, I must say, it’s a lot closer to New Testament Christianity than a lot of the Christians that I hear. In other words if we are looking for common ground, can we find it in mystical spirituality, even if we cannot theologically agree, Can we pray together in such a way that we connect with a God that transcends our theological differences?

I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it.

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

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.

I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and - for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.

The thought of the presence of God and the spirit of worship will in all my actions have as their immediate object Jesus, God and man, really present in the most holy Eucharist. The spirit of sacrifice, of humiliation, of scorn for self in the eyes of men, will be illuminated, supported and strengthened by the constant thought of Jesus, humiliated and despised in the Blessed Sacrament

Jesus has prepared the way and has made following our destiny possible, whereas we are helpless by ourselves. We can find and fulfill our purpose by responding to the clear, simple call of Jesus Christ: "Follow Me." He is the doorway to fulfilling our destiny, where our divine design and God-ordained purpose live in perfect harmony.

Forgiveness is constructed in the DNA of the persecuted. One Egyptian pastor this spring delivered a sermon titled, "A Message to Those Who Kill Us." In it he quoted Jesus, declaring the fact that the church would refuse to hate the terrorists, but would instead forgive them, pray for them, and love them. This is one of the reasons why so many terrorists are coming to Jesus.

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event.

We should not serve the poor like they were Jesus. We should serve the poor because they are Jesus.

The Holocaust is as real a historical event as World War II itself and not to be challenged.

As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.

Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions.

In my world, historical revenue is the least interesting thing to consider in an acquisition strategy.

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

Christ did not suffer and die to offer cheap grace. Jesus did not go willingly to the cross so we could have an easy life or offer a faith built on easy-believism. As someone once said, 'Salvation is free, but not cheap.' It cost Jesus His life.

Don't waste your time consuming what makes you weak. Spend your time pressing in for the Presence. Become so intimate with Jesus, so full of Him, that it does not matter what challenges in life present themselves to you. You will be so spiritually full that you can feed a multitude of other people's needs. Jesus will give you more than enough.

For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.

Wine needs to have a context in a social gathering to fulfill its historical place in this world.

Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.