Gospels Quotes
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Gospels Quotes & Sayings
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I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point.
— Chester Brown
Preach the Gospels everyday & only if you have to...use words.
— Francis Of Assisi
You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.
— Rachel Held Evans
Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?
— Chuck Palahniuk
To begin with, with the possible exception of the gospel of Luke, none of the gospels we have were written by the person after whom they are named.
— Reza Aslan
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
— Charles De Gaulle
Action is always superior to speech in the Gospels, which is why the Word became flesh and not newsprint.
— Colin M. Morris
For me, though, the miracle stories written about Jesus in the four Gospels came alive in my spirit. They
— Thelma Gilbert
It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary creation.
— Paul Louis Couchoud
Where would Jesus be if no one ever wrote the gospels?
— Chuck Palahniuk
So this is how my friend died. Because I taught him how to read the gospels. And because he had the bravery to speak out about what they revealed.
— Ian Caldwell
Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.
— John Piper
There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.
— Bono
In none of the Gospels does Jesus tell his disciples to extend the kingdom, work for the kingdom, build up the kingdom, or further the kingdom.
— John E. Goldingay
The spirit of the Gospels is the all inclusive love of Jesus, which jumps off the pages.
— Amos Smith
The gospels were all about God becoming king, but the creeds are focused on Jesus being God.
— N. T. Wright
The world's myths do not reveal a way to interpret the Gospels, but exactly the reverse: the Gospels reveal to us the way to interpret myth.
— Rene Girard
The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.
— Dorothy Day
The Gospels did not start the Church; the Church started the Gospels. The Church did not come out of the Gospels; the Gospels came out of the Church.
— Fulton J. Sheen
I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene ... .No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.
— Albert Einstein
Clearly, he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the Gospels.
— Victor Hugo
As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.
— Bridget Of Sweden
How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?
— Richard Aldington
We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .
— Thomas Jefferson
I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.
— Troy Perry
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
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
— Denis Diderot
The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.
— Stanley Hauerwas
If the Gospels were mythical themselves, they could not provide the knowledge that demythologizes mythology.
— Rene Girard
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
— George Bernard Shaw
The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.
— Philip Yancey
The stories about the life and teachings of Jesus were mainly told in Greek, the original language of the gospels.
— Jay Parini
The Gospels actually taught this:
Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. so it goes. — Kurt Vonnegut
Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. so it goes. — Kurt Vonnegut
Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.
— Pope Pius X
I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.
— Alexander Theroux
If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God's activity, then defeat was only the beginning.
— Corrie Ten Boom
No one can give you faith. It is a gift from God alone. Seek and ye shall find. Read the Gospels. There is no other way.
— Jennifer Worth
Both gospels employ the term "Son of God" exactly as it is used throughout the Hebrew Scriptures: as a royal title, not a description.
— Reza Aslan
To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.
— Philip Schaff
New Testament gospels are traditionally accorded a cultural sanctity and lofty regard completely out of line with their literary worth.
— Thomas Daniel Nehrer
The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.
— Alice McDermott
All of Jesus' teaching on prayer in the Gospels can be summarized with one word: ask.
— Paul E. Miller
Nonviolence is the very essence of the gospels.
— Helene Iswolsky
Throughout the records of the Gospels, I saw how Jesus didn't treat women any differently than men, and I liked that.
— Sarah Bessey
One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
— Wendell Berry
The point [of the gospels] is not whether Jesus is God, but what God is doing in and through Jesus. What is this embodied God up to?
— N. T. Wright
The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.
— Thomas Jefferson
The reason we haven't yet fully understood the Jesus story is that we are gospel-based rather than Bible-based Christians!
— Eli Of Kittim
The Jesus of the Gospels is surely not convenient for us.
— Pope Benedict XVI
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.
— Kurt Vonnegut
If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy.
— Frederic Farrar
Miracle focus messages compels masses to think that the process of production is not necessary for prosperity
— Sunday Adelaja
There are five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and the Christian. Most people will never read the first four.
— Rodney "Gipsy" Smith
Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?
— Thomas Adams
Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.
— Marilyn Manson
Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.
— N. T. Wright
The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
— John Eldredge
Injil: The book that Muslims believe Allah sent to Jesus, often considered to be the gospels of the New Testament
— Nabeel Qureshi
Preach the Gospels everyday & only if you have to ... use words.
— Francis Of Assisi
Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.
— Ludwig Von Mises
When 'biblical' theologies ignore the gospels, something is clearly very wrong. (on atonement theories)
— N. T. Wright
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
— Bertrand Russell