Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns; and just as the Apostle Paul left his little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet and city of the Graeco-Roman world, I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jesus recognized that love is greater than like,

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Somebody must have sense enough to meet hate with love. Somebody must have sense enough to meet physical force with soul force. If we will but try this way, we will be able to change these conditions and yet at the same time win the hearts and souls of those who have kept these conditions alive a way as old as the insights of Jesus of Nazareth, as modern as the techniques of Mohandas K. Gandhi. There is another way.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

He (Jesus) knew that the old eye-for-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with aggressive love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, 'Love your enemies.' It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals.

Mark Hopkins

Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

Mark Batterson

I think you often say more by saying less. And interestingly enough, I mean, Jesus really set the standard. I mean, he could say more with fewer words than anybody. Most of the parables were less than 250 words. And, boy, did he have some one-liners just packed with truth.

Mark Batterson

Jesus on Twitter would have been a pretty amazing thing.

Mark Batterson

If Jesus were living in our culture, he would probably hang out in coffeehouses.

Mark Batterson

Jesus didn't die to make us safe. He died to make us dangerous.

Mark Batterson

Jesus didn't die to make us safe. He died to make us dangerous! Faithfulness isn't holding the fort. It's storming the gates of hell with the light and love of Jesus Christ.

Mark Batterson

If the kingdom of God had departments, we’d want to work in research and development. We felt like Jesus didn’t hang out at the synagogue, he hung out at wells. Coffeehouses are postmodern wells. Let’s not wait for people to come to us, let’s go to them.

Mark Batterson

Jesus didn’t die to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous. Faithfulness is not holding the fort. It’s storming the gates of hell. The will of God is not an insurance plan. It’s a daring plan. The complete surrender of your life to the cause of Christ isn’t radical. It’s normal. It’s time to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. It’s time to go all in and all out for the All in All. Pack your coffin!

Mikhail Gorbachev

The socialist tradition....goes back to Jesus Christ, not (Karl) Marx.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

Mitt Romney

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.

R. A. Torrey

We are not saved by denying self, or taking up our cross, or doing anything else, we are saved by simply believing in Jesus.

R. A. Torrey

Those who truly believe on Jesus Christ are saved from all fear.

R. A. Torrey

We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work, is not to get persons to join the church or to give up their bad habits or to do anything else than this, to accept Jesus Christ, as their Saviour.

R. C. Sproul

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

R. C. Sproul

The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain for injustice, it was Jesus. He was the only innocent man ever to be punished by God. If we stagger at the wrath of God, let us stagger at the Cross. Here is where our astonishment should be focused.

R. C. Sproul

There are only two ways that God’s justice can be satisfied with respect to your sin. Either you satisfy it or Christ satisfies it. You can satisfy it by being banished from God’s presence forever. Or you can accept the satisfaction that Jesus Christ has made.

R. C. Sproul

It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.

R. C. Sproul

God Himself supplies the necessary condition to come to Jesus, that's why it is 'sola gratia,' by grace alone, that we are saved.

R. C. Sproul

The resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.

R. C. Sproul

The gospel of Jesus Christ must be defended in every generation. It is always the center of attack by the forces of evil.

R. C. Sproul

The atonement is a multifaceted event-Jesus is shown providing surety for our debt to God, mediating the enmity between us and God, and offering Himself as a substitute to suffer God's judgment in our place.

R. C. Sproul

I get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.

R. C. Sproul

Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.

R. C. Sproul

The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.

R. C. Sproul

The rapture will not be secret but open and manifest. Its purpose will not be to whisk the elect away from the earth for a while until Christ returns for a 'second' Second Coming. The purpose of the rapture is to allow the saints to meet Jesus in the air as He returns and be included in His entourage during His triumphal descent from Heaven. His coming in this manner will be attended by the general resurrection, the final judgment, and the end of the world.