#gospels

I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats - any kind of threat, whether of jail or of retribution after death - then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer in the circus with his whip, not the prophet who sacrificed himself. But don't you see, this is just the point - what has for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but an inward music: the irresistible power of unarmed truth, the powerful attraction of its example. It has always been assumed that the most important things in the Gospels are the ethical maxims and commandments. But for me the most important thing is that Christ speaks in parables taken from life, that He explains the truth in terms of everyday reality. The idea that underlies this is that communion between mortals is immortal, and that the whole of life is symbolic because it is meaningful. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#death

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John. ↗

— Alfred Noyes

#been #christ #compared #fourth #gospel

I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's been a while since I've read through a whole book. ↗

— Michael W. Smith

#been #book #forgotten #gospels #had

I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me. ↗

— Jim Caviezel

#business #film #gospels #i #know

As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#being #community #covenant #first #god

I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point. ↗

— Chester Brown

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Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#had #jesus #where #would #written

I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality. ↗

— Troy Perry

#any #cannot #christian #condemned #find

What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character. ↗

— Anne Rice

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