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- How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
- In a believer's ear!
- It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,
- And drives away his fear.
- Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin?
- The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.
EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH, Peace, Perfect Peace
- Jesus never let me down
- You know Jesus used to show me the score
- Then they put Jesus in show business
- Now it's hard to get in the door.
BONO, "If God Will Send His Angels"
Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, preface to Androcles and the Lion
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he has to say, and make fun of it.
- There's not a child so small and weak
- But has his little cross to take,
- His little work of love and praise
- That he may do for Jesus' sake.
CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER, We are but Little Children Weak
Jesus ... associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
JOHN ORTBERG, Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them
The greatest need in the world is the transformation of human nature. We need a new heart that will not have lust and greed and hate in it. We need a heart filled with love and peace and joy, and that is why Jesus came into the world.
BILLY GRAHAM, Just As I Am
Like hairs on the head, mortal man is joined to Jesus Christ, the head of all, but they are full of transgressions and sins because of man's delight in the flesh. But the Church regenerates and purifies these from the unclean stench and filth of sin by penitence and confession, just as hair is cleansed from dew and drops, and as dust is shaken out and cleansed from wool.
HILDEGARD OF BINDEN, letter to the Abbot, c. 1166
I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.
VINCENT VAN GOGH, letter to Theo van Gogh, Oct. 1884
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