Top 1200 Historical Jesus Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.

That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

I’ve got to push everything out of mind save the name of Jesus. I say His name over and over again, for as long as fifteen minutes, until I find my soul suspended in what the ancient Celtic Christians called a “thin place”–a state where the boundary between heaven and earth, divine and human, dissolves. You could say that I use the name of Jesus as my koan.

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern.

There is a fundamental difference between Jesus and Muhammad and their teachings. When the Jews brought a prostitute to Christ and asked him what to do with her because the law says stone her, Jesus said, let the one who has not committed any sin throw the first stone. This is a great teaching. To be happy as human beings, we don't need lots of laws. All we need are few good teachings and this is one of them.

One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.

Jesus lives! the same comforting, helping, instructing, loving Elder Brother, as when John leaned on His bosom, as when He lifted Peter up from the waves, as when He dried Mary's tears with His, "Thy sins are forgiven thee." Jesus lives! the same almighty Saviour, Guide, Intercessor, as when He ascended to glory with the broken fetters of sin and death in His pierced hands.

Those who refuse to reform may not make mistakes, but they will be blamed for not assuming their historical responsibility.

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.

The Bible promises us that Jesus will return to take His faithful followers with Him to live with Him in His glorious presence forever. Everyone else will be left behind to face God's wrath and judgment. If Jesus were to return today, do you know if He would take you with Him to heaven?.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped.

Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.

I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life.

I actually think actors both are drawn to playing real-life historical people and are terrified.

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century.

All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us.

When you're facing all the issues of life and you don't know what to do, accept the fact that you are human. We all are. We don't have the capacity to understand Almighty God. But you know what? We know Jesus Christ. He's the wisdom of God. And He put His Holy Spirit in us. So having access to the Holy Spirit and Jesus, we can face the challenges of today with the wisdom of God.

I don't know what in the world happened. I don't know if it was the power of the prayer or God himself, but it just reached out, either while I was driving or walking down the sidewalk or sleeping, and it just - the power of God in Jesus just grabbed me... All of a sudden, I just believed in Jesus Christ. I did, I believed in him!

When Jesus died on the cross the mercy of God did not become any greater. It could not become any greater, for it was already infinite. We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No--Jesus died because God is showing mercy. It was the mercy of God that gave us Calvary, not Calvary that gave us mercy. If God had not been merciful there would have been no incarnation, no babe in the manger, no man on a cross and no open tomb.

The true gospel of Jesus Christ never led to bigotry. It never led to self-righteousn ess. It never led to arrogance. The true gospel of Jesus Christ leads to brotherhood, to friendship, to appreciation of others, to respect and kindness and love

To be much for God, we must be much with God. Jesus, that lone figure in the wilderness, knew strong crying, along with tears. Can one be moved with compassion and not know tears? Jeremiah was a sobbing saint. Jesus wept! So did Paul. So did John. Though there are some tearful intercessors behind the scenes, I grant you that to our modern Christianity, praying is foreign.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make claim to historical truth.

I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.

Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.

No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy.

I had access to books, and I could read... but that more foundational, basic historical awareness, I didn't have any of that.

Germany's historical responsibility will not expire. We want to live up to it - and you should judge us on it.

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.

I love visiting Landmark Trust properties, which tend to be historical follies in extraordinary places.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.

I'm grateful to play at Wembley - it is a very historical place - but it is not the same feeling as White Hart Lane.

To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.

A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.

Jesus is not your accuser. He’s not your prosecutor. He’s not your judge. He’s your friend and your rescuer. Like Zacchaeus, just spend time with Jesus. Don’t hide from him in shame or reject him in self-righteousness. Don’t allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him for yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.

In the christian view, the ultimate evidence for the existence of God is Jesus Christ.? If there is a God, we characters in his play have to hope that he put some information about himself in the play. But Christians believe he did more than give us information. He wrote himself into the play as the main character in history, when Jesus was born in a manger and rose from the dead.

The stuff that's made up about Jesus - that you have to go through Jesus to get to God and if you're lucky, after you die, if you've done everything right, the reward is you get to sit on the right hand side of God. All that is made up by men. People made it up.

Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide.

Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me.

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat historical period.

I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of his [Obama's] historical ignorance.

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.

Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

I think if Jesus had one shot at fixing us, He’d tell us how much He loves us. Jesus loves us right now, just as we are. He isn’t standing aloof, yelling at us to climb out of our pits and clean ourselves up so we can be worthy of Him. He is wading waist-deep into the muck of life, weeping with the broken, rescuing the lost, and healing the sick.

In order to experience and understand what it means to be a Christian, it is always necessary to recognize a definite historical situation.

If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.

I try to take pictures on their own terms, considering the historical and social context from which they emerge.

The great thing about really heightened historical dramas is that they can convey much larger themes.