#jesus

Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#authority #divorce #every #frequently #fundamentalists

I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#beaten #because #christ #died #i

Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around. ↗

— Larry Norman

#floating #getting #got #him #i

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. ↗

— Barack Obama

#came #christ #christian #christian faith #church

The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback. Jesus Himself did. The apostles did. I mean, there's persecution all up and down the line. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#apostles #did #down #enamored #get

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life. ↗

— Richard Rolle

#christ #devotion #god #jesus #jesus christ

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#god #jesus #jesus christ #officer #revenue

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#conversion #jesus #surrender #wants #willingness

Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#certain way #christ #come #confession #emotion

There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#anything #christ #done #doubt #god