Iggy Pop Quotes

I'd like to spend a day in Jesus's life. That'd be the most insane thing ever. I would love to do that.

Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

Jesus Christ to me, is probably the most compassionate and revolutionary thinker of all time.

In my 33rd year, I was called to play Jesus.

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

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.

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.

Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.

Almost any poll of regular churchgoers will reveal that their favorite book in the New Testament is the Gospel of John. It is the book that is most often used at Christian funerals.

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 picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

Entire families are attending 'Son of God' together and sharing it with their own kids. Parents are using the film as a conversation starter to help bring the story of Jesus to life for their children.

Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.

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?

'Who Is This Man?' is about the impact of Jesus on human history. Most people - including most Christians - simply have no idea of the extent to which we live in a Jesus-impacted world.

The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.

Once you start to look at the gospels one by one, you realize that followers of Jesus were trying to understand what had happened after he was arrested and killed. They knew Judas had handed him over to the people who arrested him.

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.

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

In truth, Jesus did not, in his own time, attract much notice.

Obviously, you're trying to peel through 20 centuries of theology, speculations, church doctrine and storytelling. I'm trying to get back to the absolute basic story of who was Jesus, what did he say, what was he teaching, and what did he do.

The Gospels record that nearly everywhere the Savior went, He was surrounded by multitudes of people. Some hoped that He would heal them; others came to hear Him speak. Others came for practical advice. Toward the end of His mortal ministry, some came to mock and ridicule Him and to clamor for His crucifixion.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.