For the Jesus Revolutionaries, the answer was clear: Jesus would not be out waging "preventative" wars. Jesus would not be withholding medicine from people who could not afford it. Jesus would not cast stones at people of races, sexual orientatons, or genders other than His own. Jesus would not condone the failing, viperous, scandalplagued hierarchy of some churches. Jesus would welcome everyone to his his table. He would love them, and he would find peace.
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Related Jesus did not only serve the needs of the people, but truly hoped that the people and Jesus would be... GREG BOYLE What would Jesus do? One thing is obvious, if there is one thing Jesus would NOT do - is to behave l... CHRISTINA ENGELA Because of Jesus’ supposed predestination, God would have had to choose the people who would kill ... DAVID G. MCAFEE The Gospels were written to present the life and teachings of Jesus in ways that would be appropriat... JOHN DRANE Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should beco... SHANE CLAIBORNE Not to abide in Jesus’ love would mean that we stop believing that we are loved by Jesus. We look ... JOHN PIPER I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humble... HEIDI BAKER Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do? CHUCK PALAHNIUK We'll seek to speak over the heads of the Pope to Catholics in the pews to urge them to take into co... HARRY KNOX I’ve often wondered where Jesus would apply His hastily made whip if He were to visit our culture.... R.C. SPROUL Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If Jesus had not risen from the dead, no right-minded person would have glorified anything so hideou... BILLY GRAHAM If Jesus comes back tomorrow, would your actions cause him to hug you or would he have a tear in his... PETER STROPLE If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner,... THOMAS CARLYLE Jesus Christ would be quite interesting, but Bart Simpson would be brilliant. STEVE HARMISON Jesus promised His disciples three things: that they would be entirely fearless, absurdly happy, and... W. RUSSELL MALTBY Imagine for a moment the result if everyone were to love one another as Jesus loves his disciples. W... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Waiting for one’s execution is worse than dying. To seek my beheading is glory. Who went to his ex... STEFAN EMUNDS If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salv... A.W. TOZER Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the... ANONYMOUS A minister of Jesus Christ should not be regardless of his attitude. If he is the representative of ... ELLEN G. WHITE After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought ... BIBLE Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly depa... RICHARD DAWKINS My prayer is that the good news of Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah, would flood Jewish commun... JOHN PIPER The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (t... MARCUS J. BORG If Jesus was a bartender, He would still only be half as cool as Carlos. RICHARD KADREY The death of Jesus Christ on the cross is His greatest single act of unwavering trust in His Abba’... BRENNAN MANNING Jesus will think you're a jerk. And it would be true. FRANK ZAPPA I have sometimes wondered why Jesus so frequently touched the people he healed, many of whom must ha... PAUL BRAND Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, ... WILLIAM BARCLAY In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as ... KEVIN DEYOUNG Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels? CHUCK PALAHNIUK If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have s... KHALIL GIBRAN If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have s... KAHLIL GIBRAN Feast of Michael & All Angels The nominal Christian, then, will see Jesus as a name, a representa... ROBERT L. SHORT ...that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't... C. S. LEWIS When the focus becomes ‘What would Jesus do?’ instead of ‘What has Jesus done?’ the [conserv... MICHAEL S. HORTON He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant. WILLIAM BLAKE Jesus Christ could die instead of man because He was sinless. As a man without sin, He was not under... HENRY HON Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 2. the ministry of meekness ... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Interpreting Jesus command to eat His flesh and drink His blood as a metaphor
is not enough, ..... JEFF CAVINS The stone was moved—not for Jesus—but for the women; not so Jesus could come out, but so the wom... MAX LUCADO As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositi... CRISS JAMI Jesus saw a man use his hand to cup
water from a stream and Jesus threw away his cup.
Jesus saw a w... DANIEL DELEANU jesus died for everyone, not just straight people JAIMEE CALEY First, we break bread and drink wine together, telling the story of Jesus and his death, because Jes... N.T. WRIGHT Jesus Christ would not attract listeners today by preaching as the Son of God, but as the son of a c... NICOLáS GóMEZ DáVILA Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch... MAX LUCADO Jesus said several times, “Come, follow me.” His was a program of “do what I do,” rather tha... SPENCER W. KIMBALL Eros mumbled something. "I'm sorry?" said Aphrodite. "Whatwouldjesusdo." "What would ... MARIE PHILLIPS Beside Jesus, the whole lot of us are so contemptible... But God is like Jesus, and like Jesus, He w... FRANK C. LAUBACH If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare ... THOMAS CARLYLE The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior m... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made ... CARSON MCCULLERS Only in the latest of our Gospels, John, a Gospel that shows considerably more theological sophistic... BART D. EHRMAN Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552 What is the Christian? ... PHILLIPS BROOKS In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbour hostility against us, not those against whom ... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The Bible promises us that Jesus will return to take His faithful followers with Him to live with Hi... BILLY GRAHAM I wonder what Jesus would do if He had to reload Windows 95 for the eighth time today ? MIRABOUR GILBRIDE. Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: When Christ was in the world, He was despised by men; ... MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE Jesus was happy when people acknowledged his dignity and saddened when they did not, but he never so... MOTHER ANGELICA Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330 Wherever we turn in the church of ... FREDERICK W. FABER Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: Jesus ventured to trust God far beyond the degree that... JOHN R. COGDELL Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be Hi... FULTON J. SHEEN Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family. STEPHEN COLBERT I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ... C.S. LEWIS As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took t... ADAM CLARKE Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civili... THOMAS JEFFERSON Feast of Pentecost Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 It was something more ... CHARLES GORE The only river i would like to be drown is the river filled with the blood of Jesus. MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON We were promised that we would have Jehovah, Jesus Christ, as our Savior and Redeemer. He would assu... HENRY B. EYRING What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or &... CHRIS CORNELL (Judas) may have thought that when Jesus met with the priests, it would just be to talk. He had misj... GARY HERION If I was going to get on a billboard ... (the message) would be 'Jesus Christ is your savior,' JOE EVANS Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have... GEORGE WHITEFIELD What Jesus did was not phony, WILLIE DAVIS Jesus was loyal to his apostles, with full knowledge of their cowardice. He was loyal to the poor, a... MOTHER ANGELICA If our Lord Jesus Christ had come back to earth in Scarsdale in time for the Holly Ball, he would no... GEORGE FRENCH KEMPSELL As a matter of fact, you know, Jesus probably would be, except for one or two issues, a liberal Demo... BERNARD GOLDBERG Jesus came to give his righteousness not to condemn the unrighteous. MAC CANOZA Jesus' moral teaching does not consist of a universal scheme of ethics, a series of precepts which w... GABRIEL HERBERT Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or f... PETER KREEFT When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he ... GAVIN BRYARS Treat everyone like you treat Jesus, because you do not know who you might be talking too. Jesus com... LISA KENNETT Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, ... BIBLE I cannot pray in the name of Jesus to have my own will; the name of Jesus is not a signature of no i... SØREN KIERKEGAARD Jesus waited three days to come back to life. It was perfect! If he had only waited one day, a lot o... BARNEY STINSON Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night a... CHARLES SPURGEON The gallows were used to punish criminals, for instance the pharoahs would chop off people's heads a... JAMES DYE Dad?" Jesus asked. "Yes, son?" God replied. "Why do birds sing?" Jesus asked. "Birds ... ANTHONY T. HINCKS I often ask myself, 'Who would Jesus vote for?' Then I start to think that he wouldn't vote at all; ... CRISS JAMI Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become ful... DALLAS WILLARD Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? / And Jesus said un... BIBLE And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:... BIBLE A lot of people come up here and they thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had... KATHY GRIFFIN The New Testament gospels do not show Jesus as approving what Judas did, which sadly allowed many Ch... GARY HERION Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to pai... PAULO COELHO We are literally in the heart of Jesus," he said. "I thought we were in a church basement, but we ar... JOHN GREEN Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater... A.W. TOZER
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The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end. DAVID LEVITHAN I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday. DAVID LEVITHAN You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint - ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you,... DAVID LEVITHAN There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don... DAVID LEVITHAN I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blu... DAVID LEVITHAN The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearran... DAVID LEVITHAN I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend. DAVID LEVITHAN So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me." She triangled... DAVID LEVITHAN What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people... 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I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor.... DAVID LEVITHAN love , n. I'm not even going to try. DAVID LEVITHAN lover , n . Oh, how I hated this word. So pretentious, like it was always bei... DAVID LEVITHAN Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, ... DAVID LEVITHAN If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which ... DAVID LEVITHAN There was something about our silence that made me comfortable. He wasn't talking to me, but I didn'... DAVID LEVITHAN You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all... DAVID LEVITHAN There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about... DAVID LEVITHAN Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it’s a game, I know I’m... DAVID LEVITHAN Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs. DAVID LEVITHAN How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-s... DAVID LEVITHAN Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold ... DAVID LEVITHAN It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just varia... DAVID LEVITHAN I've never understood why looking hot had to be equated with sex and conquest. Whatever happened to ... DAVID LEVITHAN Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person ha... DAVID LEVITHAN Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you e... DAVID LEVITHAN Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical ... DAVID LEVITHAN My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots. DAVID LEVITHAN The words were clumsy in my mouth, like typing with hammers. DAVID LEVITHAN So what do you have to confess now?" I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is th... DAVID LEVITHAN My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get aw... DAVID LEVITHAN