Jay Parini Quotes

What shall I do then with Jesus, which is called Christ?

I do believe in the idea of a historic person named Jesus that was a kind of chill dude who was just telling people to chill and be nice to each other. And he got penalized for that.

Jesus Chris was more than man.

Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.

Jesus was a crackpot.

Jesus Christ-" "Is Not here right now," the man in black replied,"and even if he were, he could not save you.

Who was Jesus? God saves.

Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.

Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God.

Jesus Christ is to me the outstanding personality of all time, all history, both as Son of God and as Son of Man. Everything he ever said or did has value for us today and that is something you can say of no other man, dead or alive. There is no easy middle ground to stroll upon. You either accept Jesus or reject him.

Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?

The key to recognizing who Jesus was is to recognize this fundamental truth: He was a Jew.

During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection.

Jesus did not come to be the Messiah

Make Jesus Christ your theme! I have seen preachers espouse causes and champion movements, and when the cause died and the movement collapsed, the preacher vanished too. But the man who glories in Christ never grows stale.

Two thousand years ago, in the Middle East, an event occurred that permanently changed the world. Because of that event, history was split. Every time you write a date, you’re using the Resurrection of Jesus Christ as the focal point.

Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.

One who claimed what Jesus claimed about himself couldn't be a good moral man or a prophet. That option isn't open to us, and Jesus never intended it to be.

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

The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

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?

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us.

Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.