Catharine Beecher Quotes

Jesus, as a philosopher is wonderful. There's no greater role model, in my view, than Jesus Christ. It's just a shame that most of the people who follow him and call themselves Christians act nothing like him.

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

I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.

Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.

I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.

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

If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.

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

Christ would not vote for Barack Obama, because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved

For all of the separateness of church and state, Christian morality has shaped Britain and its inhabitants for a very long time.

I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ... if I can't take him with me, I don't want to go.

I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great mass of those who have risen to eminence by their profound wisdom and integrity have recognized and reverenced Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of the living God.

For us Christians, love of neighbour springs from love of God; and it is its most limpid expression. Here one tries to love one's neighbour, but also to allow oneself to be loved by one's neighbour. These two attitudes go together, one cannot be exercised without the other. Printed on the letterhead of the Missionaries of Charity are these words of Jesus: "as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me". Loving God in our brethren and loving our brethren in God.

If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?

If you're a Christian you can't have an "I'm better than" attitude toward anyone because everybody is somebody for whom Jesus died.

The fundamental task of the evangelization of culture is the challenge to make God visible in the human face of Jesus.

Men have discovered other philosophical and ethical systems, but they have not found another Jesus Christ. No one in history can match Him.

The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

What Planned Parenthood is doing is not the faith that I believe in, but Jesus never ordered anyone to be killed and he never raised his hand to injure anyone specifically. But Mohammed did and there is a big difference in this.

Are you still thirsting? Christ gives the invitation not only to others but to you. He is the fountainhead. He has died and is risen. He offers the only way to eternal life, asking only that you admit your need, raise the empty hands of faith, and accept His gift. What is eternal life? It is meaning in life now as well as living one‚s life forever. Drink deep. Jesus offers a brimming cup.

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

The gospel is not about... pie-in-the-sky when they die. ... It is imperative that the up and coming generation recognize that the biblical Jesus was committed to the realization of a new social order in this world.... Becoming a Christian, therefore, is a call to social action.

We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule.

Jesus set an example for us to follow: a life of loving, obedient service.