Respec'

Man can't do without God.
Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water.
You just can't go without God.
-  Bob Marley 

Find your Center

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God
or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
-  Bono 

Master of puppets

If we have been pleased with life, 
we should not be displeased with death, 
since it comes from the hand of the same master.
--Michelangelo

Many believe

Many believe - and I believe - 

that I have been designated for this work by God. 

In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; 

I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

--Michelangelo

So happy together

Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again. 

--George Whitefield 

Really real

How do I know that the resurrection and the whole Gospel is real? I know not only because of an acquaintance with the primary sources from the first century A.D., or even because of the words of the Bible. I know primarily, and I affirm this truth to you, on the basis of what I have witnessed in my own life... Jesus Christ provides a basis for hope and for the most profound personal satisfaction. --Glenn C. Louis, Economist and Civil Rights Activist (Boston University)

It wasn't the morality

It wasn't the morality of the Sermon on the Mount which enabled Christianity to conquer Roman paganism, but the belief that Jesus had been raised from the dead. In an age when Roman senators vied to see who could get the most blood of a steer on their togas - thinking that would prevent death - Christianity was in competition for eternal life, not morality. --Ernst Bloch, German Marxist philosopher

Andre the normal sized

There is more light in Christ's words than in any other human words. This is not enough, it seems, to be a Christian: in addition, one must believe. --Andre Gide, French novelist

He's got the whole world

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christian.  --Thomas Jefferson, June 26, 1822

Bill Clinton

"People feel judged and condemned. Jesus didn't make them feel that way. He made them feel loved and valued. If the religious right really acted like Jesus did, then Bill Clinton would feel our love". --Rep. Tom Coburn

Hello Muddah

Christ, who being rich became poor and emptied Himself to work out our redemption, calls us: to share in His poverty so that we might become rich through His poverty; to bear witness to the true face of Jesus - poor; humble, and friend of sinners, the weak and the despised. --Mother Theresa

Only faith

The gospel demands not works to make us holy and to redeem us. Indeed, it condemns such works, and demands only faith in Christ, because He has overcome sin, death and hell for us. --Martin Luther

Me too

"I'll just say, 'For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.' I am trusting Christ's death for me to take me to heaven." --Mickey Mantle, Aug. 1995

Matchless artist

It is a very good thing that you read the Bible... The Bible is Christ, for the Old Testament leads up to this culminating point... Christ alone... has affirmed as a principal certainty, eternal life, the infinity of time, the nothingness of death, the necessity and the raison d'être of serenity and devotion. He lived serenely, as a greater artist than all other artists, despising marble and clay as well as color, working in living flesh. That is to say, this matchless artist... made neither statues nor pictures nor books; he loudly proclaimed that he made... living men, immortals.  --Vincent van Gogh

It's a beautiful day for a neighbor

I can't imagine more surprising places for God to appear than a manger or a cross. Yet all through his life and resurrection, Jesus demonstrates the power of showing and sharing God's love. Every time I write a script or a song or walk into the studio, I pray 'Let some word that is heard be Thine.' That's really all that matters.  --Fred Rogers

We believe in nothing, Lebowski!

"For thirty five years of my life I was, in the proper acceptation of the word, nihilist, a man who believed in nothing.

Five years ago my faith came to me. I believed in the doctrine of Jesus Christ and my whole life underwent a sudden transformation. Life and death ceased to be evil. Instead of despair, I tasted joy and happiness that death could not take away."

-- Lev Tolstoy

Great Scott

"As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet."

-- Kenneth Scott Latourette, American academic historian and historiographer, 1884 - 1968

The undersea world

"Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero...

Shall we suppose that the evangelical history is a mere fiction? Indeed it bears no marks of fiction; on the contrary, the history of Socrates, which no one presumes to doubt, is not so well attested to as that of Jesus Christ."

-- Jean Jacques Rousseau, one of the greatest intellects of France and skeptic of Christianity, 1712 - 1778

Call me Al

"And so the word had breath, and wrought with human hands the creed of creeds in loveliness of perfect deeds, more strong than all poetic thought."

-- Alfred Tennyson, British poet, 1809-1892

"We'll kill the firstborn male in every household." "Too Jewish."

"Jesus Christ is to me the outstanding personality of all time, all history, both as Son of God and as Son of Man. Everything he ever said or did has value for us today and that is something you can say of no other man, dead or alive. There is no easy middle ground to stroll upon. You either accept Jesus or reject him."

--Sholem Asch, Polish-born American Yiddish writer