#jesus

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. ↗

— John Lennon

#first #go #i #jesus #know

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship. ↗

— Ben Lindsey

#censorship #christ #first #great #jesus

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#almost #be true #been #born #cannot

I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ? ↗

— Jeffrey Hunter

#christ #felt #follow #getting #hard

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#god #jesus #faith

For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him. ↗

— William Barclay

#enough #ever #heaven #him #jesus

Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief. ↗

— Dan Brown

#christian #heart #jesus #married #one thing

The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#every #good #jesus #knight #lives

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#alive #because #committed #companionship #had

Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#cross #died #jesus #second-class #women