Joel Edgerton Quotes

Remove all images of a white Jesus. This is not correct even if one is Christian. The historical Jesus had be black in color despite the missionaries' attempt to paint him English and Swedish.

I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France already barely went to church, except for the big three: baptism, marriage, and funeral. And only the middle one was by choice.

I went to a Christian all-boys' college one time to pick up my buddies so we could go play baseball, and I just remember walking through the halls, and there's all these crucified Jesuses. It's scary.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with.

They're not posing as being Jesus Christ all the time.

I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

What is it among you whites that makes you think that Jesus Christ is yours?

God always suspiciously looks like the people of the ruling class. Jesus is depicted as male and blond. My goodness, right in the middle of the Middle East.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

And the news got worse. It appeared that there was this whole other person Jesus Christ whose birthday a lot of people tended to confuse with mine. I was personally outraged. It was a long time before I forgave the Lord for that.

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.

I'm intrigued by all that, by religions, I'm intrigued by Jesus Christ. It's all fascinating.

He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest.

There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.

If Jesus had known that his image would end up on Justin Bieber's calf, he would've never started Christianity.

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.

There is one subject in religion, about which you can never know too much. That subject is Jesus Christ the Lord.

Jesus is my forgiver, my leader, and my friend.

It is an irrational claim to believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ and at the same time to hold that the greater part of his teachings have no application at the present time. If you say that the reason why the powers do not follow them that believe (as Christ said they would) is because you have not faith enough and are not pure enough-that will be all right. But to say that they have no application at the present time is to be ridiculous.

I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.

Liberals say that we are secular country with a majority of Christians, absolutely.

I could show how largely our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ; how constantly the Bible is appealed to as the guide of life and the authority in questions of morals... Add a volume of unofficial declaration to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.

Jesus Christ is the outstanding personality of our time. Every act and word of Jesus has value for us. He became the light of the world. Why shouldn't I, a Jew, be proud of that?

The Christian religion begins with a dream and ends with a murder.

Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ -- who I think was the first socialist -- only socialism can really create a genuine society.