#jesus

If Jesus had been an actual historical figure we have a thorny paradox. Either this Jesus was a remarkable individual who said and did a host of amazing, revolutionary things – but no one outside his fringe cult noticed for over a century. Or he didn’t – and yet shortly after his death, tiny communities of worshipers that cannot agree about the most basic facts of his life spring up, scattered all across the empire. The truth is inescapable: there simply could never have been a historical Jesus. ↗

— David Fitzgerald

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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach. ↗

— William Barclay

#attained #certainty #christ #conviction #doubts

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

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#against #born #good #good thing #jesus

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

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I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

#comfortable #companion #confidant #demanding #find

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

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