The Person of Jesus Christ

• "Christians have no problem accepting Christ as holy, as God. But they always have problems accepting him also as a human being at the same time" - Zeffirelli, 1923
• "What did jesus know about himself and his missions? He knew that he stood in a unique relationship to the father and that as the sin he had a mission of salvation for other" - Gerald O'Collins
• "The Easter mystery throws a new and final light on the whole story of Jesus and his mission" - Gerald O'Collins
• "If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is the Lord", and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved"
• "Jesus was a great moral teacher" - Richard Dawkins
• "Love thy neighbour"
• "Love your enemies as yourself"
• " 'If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her' again he stopped down and wrote in the ground"
• "Now that I, your lord and teacher have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet"
• "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven
• "A shoot will come up... The spirit of the lord will rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of council and of might, the spirit of the knowledge and fear of the lord... he will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; with the breath of his lips, he will slay the wicked"
• "But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father"
• "And jesus said to him, 'Why do you call me God? No one is God except God alone'"
• "I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger and he who believes in Me shall never thirst"
• "I am the light of the world. He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life"
• "I am the door. If anyone enters by Me he will be saved and will go out and find pasture"
• "I am the good Shepherd. the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep"
• "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me though he may die shall live"
• "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me"
• "I am the true vine and my father is the vinedresser"
• Miracles do not occur today and cannot be observed in the world today, therefore they probably didn't happen in Jesus' life and should be rejected as they cannot be trusted" - Hume
• "The word became flesh and made his dwelling amongst us"
• "Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness" - Martin Luther King Jn
• "Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind" - Gorbachev
• "A man who was completely innocent offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act" - Gandhi
• "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us"
• "Father forgive them, they know not what they do"
• "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?"
• "Jesus did not have a unique role in salvation" - John Hick
• "[Hick] guts Christianity of its central message that God came down and lived among the poor and rejected" - Bonhoeffer
• "If Jesus was a liar, a con man and therefore an evil foolish man, then how can we explain the fact that he left us with the most profound moral instruction and powerful moral example that anyone has ever left?" - Josh McDowell
• "You would have no authority on earth if it had not been given to you by the father in heaven"
• "I have come to bring peace not the sword"
• "Jesus was hardly a man of morals" - Robert Webb
• "Give back to Ceasar what is Ceasar's and to God what is God's"
• "He was a critique from within" - nick Wright