Ernest Renan Quotes

I like Jesus, I mean, I think he was a good guy.

The true religion of Jesus Christ our Saviour is that which penetrates, and which receives all the warmth of the heart, and all the elevation of the soul, and all the energies of the understanding, and all the strength of the will.

It saddens me that in many churches today, you hardly hear the name of Jesus being mentioned. Instead, you hear psychology being taught. You hear motivational teachings. You hear 'doing, doing, doing', 'vision, vision, vision' or 'calling, calling, calling'. You hear very little of Jesus Christ and His finished work being taught. Is this what Christianity is about? Your doing, your calling and your vision?

When it comes to responding to Jesus, I find it's important to distinguish between reverence, religion, and relationship.

Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.

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.

Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.

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

Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.

Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.

Christianity isn't all that complicated ... it's Jesus.

If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would look strikingly similar to the pop Christianity that has taken over the airwaves of North America.

I got into pastoring because of the art form. I started a church, but I felt the art form needed to be freed for all people. A particular religion over others was never interesting to me. I wanted to talk to people about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.

I have this certain reluctance when it comes to this idea that we are spiritual but not religious and we want Jesus but not the church. Why can't we have both?

If you ignore every single thing Jesus told you to do, you are just auditing. You're not a Christian.

Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!".

Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity.

The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.

Just about everybody in America likes Jesus, but few like him for who he truly is.

Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you.

Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.

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

To turn one's eyes away from Jesus means to turn them to the Law.

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.