Nazarene Quotes:

We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it.

- Phineas F. Bresee

topic: Men, Giving, Missionary, Nazarene

My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And shed come over and pick us boys up, and we would go to the Nazarene church. And back then, that was about as close to heaven as I ever got, because just the time to be able to spend with her, and she was very, very religious.

- John Mellencamp

source: Source: www.beliefnet.com

topic: Religious, Sunday, Grandmother, Nazarene

The history of the church has been largely a history of "believers" refusing to believe in the way of the crucified Nazarene and instead giving in to the very temptations he resisted--power, relevancy, spectacle.

- Shane Claiborne

topic: Believe, Giving, Temptation, Nazarene

I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Jesus, Feelings, Figures, Who Jesus Is, Theseus

I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Jesus, Nazareth, Christ, Christian Heritage, Non Believer

Jesus never called the poor 'lazy,' fought for tax cuts for the wealthiest Nazarenes or asked a leper for a copay.

- John Fugelsang

source: "After Jon Stewart, Can We Find the Funny?" by Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2015.

topic: Jesus, Cutting, Lazy, Leper, Nazarene

In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a greater power and more real than vengeance. The second proclaimed the earth to be a sphere revolving in its course around the sun. These affirmations were made in the face of all evidence sacred to the contrary.

- Louis Sullivan

topic: Real, Love Is, Two, Inversions, Greater Power

Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is pitied, for Humanity believes He was crucified painfully. . . . And all that Humanity offers to Him is crying and wailing and lamentation. For centuries Humanity has been worshiping weakness in the person of the Savior. The Nazarene was not weak! He was strong and is strong! But the people refuse to heed the true meaning of strength.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Jesus, Strong, Believe, Lamentation, Nazarene

The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who lifted the lowly, strengthened the weak, ate with publicans, and made the captives free. In the light of this divine example, the doctrines of demagogues shiver in their chaff.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Life, Dream, Teaching, Nazarene

From these Christians who came to [Avalon] to escape the bigotry of their own kind I learned something, at last, of the Nazarene, the carpenter's son who had attained Godhead in his own life and preached a rule of tolerance; and so I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.

- Marion Zimmer Bradley

topic: Christian, Son, Tolerance, Avalon, Nazarene

Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death. Christianity, on the other hand leads only the natural body to death, and for the spirit, it points out a house not built with hands, eternal in the heavens... Let me urge you to follow Him, not as the Nazarene, the Man of Galilee, the carpenter's son, but as the ever living spiritual person, full of love and compassion, who will stand by you in life and death and eternity.

- James A. Garfield

topic: Spiritual, Son, Men, Nazarene

Are there not thousands who have loved virtue who did not accept Jesus Christ in any supernatural or miraculous fashion, who, if they knew of him at all, knew of him only as the Nazarene peasant - the man Jesus. Such was Abraham Lincoln, the tender prophet of the gospel of good will upon earth.

- Jenkin Lloyd Jones

topic: Fashion, Jesus, Men, Nazarene

Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is unconditional and inexorable. ... The lowly Nazarene taught us the doctrine of non-resistance, and so convinced was he of the soundness of that doctrine that he sealed his belief with death on the cross. ... When human law conflicts with Divine law, my duty is clear. Conscience, my infallible guide, impels me to tell you that prison, death, or both, are infinitely preferable to joining any branch of the Army.

- Ben Salmon

source: "Letter To President Wilson" by Ben Salmon, June 5, 1917.

topic: Brother, Art, Father, Soundness, Divine Law

I am no longer a divine biped. I am no longer the freest German after Goethe, as Ruge named me in healthier days. I am no longer the great hero No. 2, who was compared with the grape-crowned Dionysius, whilst my colleague No. 1 enjoyed the title of a Grand Ducal Weimarian Jupiter. I am no longer a joyous, somewhat corpulent Hellenist, laughing cheerfully down upon the melancholy Nazarenes. I am now a poor fatally-ill Jew, an emaciated picture of woe, an unhappy man.

- Heinrich Heine

topic: Hero, Men, Laughing, Nazarene, Great Hero