10 Jesus Quotes

It could be said that I’m a Jesus guy. I’m completely sold out to Him, not just as my savior, but as a philosopher. If I didn’t believe Christ was God, I’d still have Him as my favorite philosopher. The following quotes are great examples of why I love Him so much. Given the context of the quotations, He was preaching revolution. So they killed him for His love.

Note that I quote the Gospel of Thomas occasionally. This is not considered Scripture by any major denomination. I’m of the camp that the gospel of Thomas is the Q document that Mark and Luke based their writings on. I am not completely sure of this to say that it should be in the Bible, of course. Either way, the sayings are still so philosophically incredible, that they need to be learned.

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9 Comments »

  1. Sarah said,

    February 3rd, 2008 at 6:43 pm

    Thanks for posting. In my study of Greek, it’s given me a whole new appreciation for many of those quotes, and other parts of the New Testament (Romans 6:23, for example, is probably my “favourite” verse in the entire Bible… such a perfect example of Law and Gospel, and to read that in Greek is just… awe-inspiring).

  2. Anonymous said,

    February 4th, 2008 at 12:22 pm

    why do you waste your life flirting with pointless thoughts? atheism, christianity, none of it fucking matters, and the bigger deal you make out of your personal struggles with faith the more i think you believe you’re special and that your beliefs somehow carry more weight because you feel as though you can rationalize them.

    when did part of the human mind become this twisted?

    we are animals. you are so far from what is human it makes me sick.

    email me back if you have actually have some intellectual balls.

  3. Anonymous said,

    February 4th, 2008 at 12:23 pm

    not to mention, consider where apologetics came from and what the point of it all is.

    an entire study devoted to countering other people’s points?

    you don’t need apologetics if what you are saying is true.

  4. Anonymous said,

    February 4th, 2008 at 12:24 pm

    not to mention, consider where apologetics came from and what the point of it all is.

    an entire study devoted to countering other people’s points?

    you don’t need apologetics if what you are saying is true in the first place.

  5. Anonymous said,

    February 4th, 2008 at 12:24 pm

    shit double post :(

  6. Shaun Connell said,

    February 4th, 2008 at 1:38 pm

    Anonymous,

    What we believe about God is incredibly important. What’s at stake is literally our code for living life — a moral code is different with God than it is without him. That said, our lives are always spent in the gamble that we /are/ right about the fundamentals — this is simply inescapable.

    That said, I’m sorry if my tone or writing style ever comes off as though I think I’m somehow “special” in the sense that others aren’t special. I hope we can continue this discussion,
    Shaun

  7. Daniel said,

    February 4th, 2008 at 4:59 pm

    Hey Shaun sorry I haven’t commented in awhile, I’ve been out of town on business. Great posts though, I really enjoyed the satire you posted.

  8. Elliott said,

    February 20th, 2008 at 9:35 am

    The quote with Jesus saying that God has forsaken Him, is talking about the significance of the cross.

    At that moment Jesus had taken the sins of the world on Himself so that He might take the punishment for them. This was the first time in eternity that one of the persons of the God-head was separated from the other two.

    It just drives home how much was sacrificed by God to save us.

  9. Laurence Topliffe said,

    June 28th, 2008 at 7:24 am

    Buy these books: Jesus Lived in India, The Essene Gospel of Peace, How to Know God (translation by Isherwood and Swami Prabhavananda of Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali)

    From that last book:
    40. By controlling the nerve-currents that govern the lungs and the upper part of the body, the yogi can walk on water and swamps, or on thorns and similar objects, and he can die at will.

    41. By controlling the force which governs the prana, he can surround himself with a blaze of light.

    This is the force which regulates the various functions of the vital energy (prana). One of the brother-disciples of Sri Ramakrishna actually had this power; and it is recorded that he once used it to light the path for Ramakrishna on a dark night. However, Ramakrishna later found it necessary to take the power away from him because it was making him dangerously egotistic.

    42. By making samyama on the relation between the ear and the ether, one obtains supernatural powers of hearing.

    43. By making samyama on the relation between the body and the ether, or by acquiring through meditation the lightness of cotton fiber, the yogi can fly through the air.

    44. By making samyama on the thought-waves of the mind when it is separated from the body-the state known as the Great Disincamation-all coverings can be removed from the light of knowledge.

    Like aphorism 39, this refers to the yoga power of Withdrawing the mind from one’s own body in order to make it pass into the body of another. In this state of withdrawal, the “Great Disincamation,” the mental coverings composed of rajas and tamas dwindle away and the light of sattwa is revealed.

    45. By making samyama on the gross and subtle forms of the elements, on their essential char

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