Actions Quotes Logo

Jesus Quotes

Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who think...

Show More

Purge me from every sinful blot;My idols all be cast aside: Cleanse me from every evil thought,From ...

Show More

God is here. This truth should fill our lives, and every Christmas should be for us a new and specia...

Show More

Earthly contemplation means to the Christian, we have said, this above all: that behind all that we ...

Show More

The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schoo...

Show More
Picture of Joseph McCabe
Joseph McCabeThe Sources of the Morality of the Gospels

Fortunately the essence of this revelation did not escape Mary despite the angel's obscure speech, a...

Show More

The lamb, having survived the storm unharmed and no longer afraid, came up to Jesus and put its mout...

Show More
Picture of José Saramago
José SaramagoThe Gospel According to Jesus Christ

There does not exist any more a holy mountain or a holy city or holy land which can be marked on a m...

Show More

The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God...

Show More

On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most...

Show More

Thus in this oneness Jesus Christ is the Mediator, the Reconciler, between God and man. Thus He come...

Show More

In Jesus Christ there is no isolation of man from God or of God from man. Rather, in Him we encounte...

Show More

God's high freedom in Jesus Christ is His freedom for LOVE. The divine capacity which operates and e...

Show More
Picture of Karl Barth
Karl BarthThe Humanity of God

In His free grace, God is for man in every respect; He surrounds man from all sides. He is man's Lor...

Show More
Picture of Karl Barth
Karl BarthThe Humanity of God

God wants man to be His creature. Furthermore, He wants him to be His PARTNER. There is a causa Dei ...

Show More

He wants in His freedom actually not to be without man but WITH him and in the same freedom not agai...

Show More

I recall the passage in the letter to the Hebrews in which we are reminded that Christ has already d...

Show More
Picture of Kathleen Norris
Kathleen NorrisThe Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry

Of course, I’ve told Jesus to suck it, too, which earned me a certain measure of notoriety, because ...

Show More
Picture of Kathy Griffin
Kathy GriffinOfficial Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin

I tell you that what has changed is the whole conception of human life- that men of every race on th...

Show More

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

I’ve never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that pai...

Show More

You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by...

Show More

The resurrection is the revelation to chosen witnesses of the fact that Jesus who died on the cross ...

Show More
L
Lesslie NewbiginFoolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

And we're not alone, you know, children," came Mrs. Whatsit, the comforter. "All through the univers...

Show More

Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.

Picture of Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Women in Jesus' day were less than second-class citizens.

Picture of Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'EngleBright Evening Star: Mystery of the Incarnation

Jesus, who comes across in the Gospels as extraordinarily strong, begged in the garden, with drops o...

Show More
Picture of Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'EngleGlimpses of Grace: Daily Thoughts and Reflections

The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles...

Show More
Picture of Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Jesus was not a theologian. He was a God who told stories.

Picture of Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world thro...

Show More

It has hindered where it might have helped; it has been evasive when it was morally bound to be fort...

Show More
Picture of Malcolm X
Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X

Sometimes people claim they don't need a crutch like Jesus, but he's not a crutch, he's a teacher. I...

Show More

I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I...

Show More

A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have m...

Show More
Picture of Mark Twain
Mark TwainThe Mysterious Stranger

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the on...

Show More

Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning to...

Show More

The Bible is the story of two gardens: Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the s...

Show More

We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet ...

Show More

When Jesus says he will keep you safe, he means it. Hell will have to get through him to get to you.

Picture of Max Lucado
Max LucadoA Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm

Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch...

Show More
Picture of Max Lucado
Max LucadoExperiencing the Heart of Jesus: Knowing His Heart

Yet when God entered time and became a man, he who was boundless became bound. Imprisoned in flesh. ...

Show More
Picture of Max Lucado
Max LucadoHe Chose the Nails

Want to know the coolest thing about the coming? Not that the One who played marbles with the stars ...

Show More

I think it's noteworthy that the Almighty didn't act high and mighty. The Holy One wasn't holier-tha...

Show More
Picture of Max Lucado
Max LucadoWhen God Whispers Your Name

And now tell me, why is it that you use me words "good people" all the time? Do you call everyone th...

Show More

Jesus to Pilate:"The trouble is," the bound man went on, not stopping by anyone, "that you are too c...

Show More
Picture of Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail BulgakovThe Master and Margarita

I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is si...

Show More

He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love t...

Show More

Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes ...

Show More
Picture of Mother Teresa
Mother TeresaIn the Heart of the World: Thoughts

Let Him empty and transform you ;and afterwards fill the chalice of your hearts to the brim, that yo...

Show More
Picture of Mother Teresa
Mother TeresaThe Love of Christ: Spiritual Counsels

Caesar's messengers didn't go round the world saying, 'Caesar is lord, so if you feel you need to ha...

Show More

When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us wh...

Show More

I have argued that the God of the Bible, and especially of the Gospels, can be understood only as Go...

Show More

The longer you look at Jesus, the more you will want to serve him in his world. That is, of course, ...

Show More
Picture of N.T. Wright
N.T. WrightFollowing Jesus: Biblical Reflections on Discipleship

You see, the bodily resurrection of Jesus isn't a take-it-or-leave-it thing, as though some Christia...

Show More
Picture of N.T. Wright
N.T. WrightFor All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church

Put it this way: if your idea of God, if your idea of the salvation offered in Christ, is vague or r...

Show More
Picture of N.T. Wright
N.T. WrightFor All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church

Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of su...

Show More
Picture of N.T. Wright
N.T. WrightFor All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church

In particular, we must take account of the well-known and striking saying of Jesus to the dying brig...

Show More
Picture of N.T. Wright
N.T. WrightFor All the Saints: Remembering the Christians Departed

...It Isn't actually much of an encouragement to me to read the stories about Jesus. I might as well...

Show More
Picture of N.T. Wright
N.T. WrightHow God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels

True freedom is the gift of the Spirit, the result of grace: but, precisely because it is freedom FO...

Show More
Picture of N.T. Wright
N.T. WrightJustification: God's Plan & Paul's Vision

Note, though, something else of great significance about the whole Christian theology of resurrectio...

Show More
Picture of N.T. Wright
N.T. WrightSurprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven

The radical hermeneutic of suspicion that characterizes all of post-modernity is essentially nihilis...

Show More
Picture of N.T. Wright
N.T. WrightThe Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is

Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to h...

Show More
Picture of N.T. Wright
N.T. WrightSurprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven

At the same time, we may not as a culture be fond of old-fashioned supernaturalism, but we certainly...

Show More
Picture of N.T. Wright
N.T. WrightSurprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven

On the seventh day God rested in the darkness of the tomb;Having finished on the sixth day all his w...

Show More
Picture of N.T. Wright
N.T. WrightThe Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is

Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and...

Show More
Picture of N.T. Wright
N.T. WrightThe Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is

Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!

Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the b...

Show More

And then this whole deal of new gods, old gods," said his friend. "You ask me, I welcome new gods. B...

Show More

And then this whole deal of new gods, old gods," said his friend. "You ask me, I welcome new gods. B...

Show More
Picture of Neil Gaiman
Neil GaimanAmerican Gods

Suffering is sometimes cleansing,” said the man. His clothes were casual, but expensive. “It can pur...

Show More

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradis...

Show More

I wonder, said the Lord I wonder if I know the answer any more.

I believe what Jesus said was, 'I the Lord will forgive whom I will forgive. But of you it is requir...

Show More

Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives.Poke kn...

Show More

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have,...

Show More

No man by mere high human wisdom would dare undertake a step for Jesus’ sake unless he knows that th...

Show More

Narrow all your interests until your mind, heart, and body are focused on Jesus Christ.

Paul was devoted to a Person, not a cause.

Picture of Oswald Chambers
Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.

Picture of Oswald Chambers
Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is abs...

Show More
Picture of Oswald Chambers
Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

Jesus walked on water, so maybe he makes aquifers, too.

Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself.

Teach me your way of looking at people:as you glanced at Peter after his denial,as you penetrated th...

Show More

How many winds of doctrine we have known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ...

Show More

The problem is not in being sinners, the problem is when we don't let ourselves be transformed in lo...

Show More
Picture of Pope Francis
Pope FrancisEncountering Truth: Meeting God in the Everyday

God forgives not with a decree but with a caress. Jesus too goes beyond the law and forgives by care...

Show More

Sin is more than a stain. Sin is a wound; it needs to be treated, healed. The place where my encount...

Show More
Picture of Pope Francis
Pope FrancisThe Name of God is Mercy

Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misu...

Show More

Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live...

Show More

Problems arise when (especially) theologians use such metaphorical language without realizing that t...

Show More
Picture of Richard Dawkins
Richard DawkinsAn Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist

He gave us taste buds, then filled the world with incredible flavors like chocolate and cinnamon and...

Show More
Picture of Rick Warren
Rick WarrenThe Purpose of Christmas

He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father.

I have never quite managed to see how we can make sense of the sacramental life of the Church withou...

Show More

What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?

This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting ea...

Show More
Picture of Shane Claiborne
Shane ClaiborneJesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to...

Show More
Picture of Shane Claiborne
Shane ClaiborneJesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely...

Show More
Picture of Shane Claiborne
Shane ClaiborneRed Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?

But what had lasting significance were not the miracles themselves but Jesus' love. Jesus raised his...

Show More
Picture of Shane Claiborne
Shane ClaiborneThe Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Then she tells me that Jesus isstill herebecause Jesus wasonce here.And parts of Jesus arestill floa...

Show More