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And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of John (1611), Gospel of John 17:3 (KJV)In context
- God
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of John (1611), Gospel of John, 13:34–35 KJVIn context
- Love
Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Education and the Social Order (1932), p. 107
- Anti-Religion
- Courage
Jesus’ commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945Discipleship (1937), Preface, tr. Barbara Green and Reinhard Krauss (2001)
- Life & Death
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would be either a lunatic⁠—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg⁠—or else he would be the Devil of Hell.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity (1952), Book II, Chapter 3, “The Shocking Alternative”
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Letter to Ezra Stiles (9 March 1790)
- Morality
Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.
Charles Spurgeon1834–1892Gleanings Among the Sheaves (New York: Sheldon and Company, 1869), “Holiness”, p. 73
- God
The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945The Cost of Discipleship (1937), “Revenge”, p. 141
- Good & Evil
- Politics
When holy scripture speaks of following Jesus, it proclaims that people are free from all human rules, from everything which presumes, burdens, or causes worry and torment of conscience.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945Discipleship (1937), Preface, tr. Barbara Green and Reinhard Krauss (2001)
- Freedom
My opinion concerning God differs widely from that which is ordinarily defended by modern Christians. For I hold that God is of all things the cause immanent, as the phrase is, not transient.
Baruch Spinoza1632–1677Letter 21 (73) to Henry Oldenburg , November (1675)
- God
Caesar and Christ had met in the arena, and Christ had won.
Will Durant1885–1981III—Caesar and Christ (1944), Chapter 30, part 1, p. 652
- History
Through faith we are restored to paradise and created anew.
Martin Luther1483–1546The Freedom of a Christian (1520), p. 74
- Faith
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church. We are fighting to-day for costly grace.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945The Cost of Discipleship (1937), ch. 1 “Costly Grace”, p. 43
When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, “Repent,” he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.
Martin Luther1483–1546Ninety-five Theses (1517), Thesis 1
Patient endurance of evil does not mean a recognition of its rights. That is sheer sentimentality, and Jesus will have nothing to do with it.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945The Cost of Discipleship (1937), “Revenge”, p. 142
- Good & Evil