#gospels

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Troy Perry

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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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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation. ↗

— Philip Schaff

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The synoptic Gospels of the New Testament manuscripts make us aware of Christ's character and gives us a view of the 'son-ship' He modeled which flowed out of that Divine character." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#gospels #modeling-behavior #new-testament #r-alan-woods #son-ship

Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption. ↗

— Philip Schaff

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The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor. ↗

— Dorothy Day

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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

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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

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