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There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.' -- Michael Moore
The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off. -- John Eldredge
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. -- Bertrand Russell
To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation. -- Philip Schaff
I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality. -- Troy Perry
Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels. -- John Piper
Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king. -- N. T. Wright
There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is. -- Bono
The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God. -- Stanley Hauerwas
I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me. -- Jim Caviezel
Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption. -- Philip Schaff
What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character. -- Anne Rice
I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's been a while since I've read through a whole book. -- Michael W. Smith
If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels. -- Charlie Pierce
The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's almost as though Saint Paul and others who wrote the Epistles weren't that interested in whether Jesus was real. -- Richard Dawkins
Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John. -- Alfred Noyes
I think the best way to view the Gospels is to view them as a magnificent portrait being painted by Jewish artists to try to capture the essence of a God experience that they believe they had with Jesus of Nazareth. -- John Shelby Spong
I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point. -- Chester Brown
Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue. -- Marilyn Manson
Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels? -- Thomas Adams
The Jesus of the Gospels is surely not convenient for us. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us. -- Ivan Illich
The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels. -- Bridget of Sweden
The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity." -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist. -- Rachel Held Evans
If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy. -- Frederic Farrar
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off, -- John Eldredge
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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature. -- Denis Diderot
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected. -- Kurt Vonnegut
There are five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and the Christian. Most people will never read the first four. -- Rodney "Gipsy" Smith
I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels. -- Alexander Theroux
As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook. -- Ludwig von Mises
The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians. -- Bertrand Russell
How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects? -- Richard Aldington
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world. -- Philip Yancey
Christianity is different from all other religions? They deal with the story of man's search for God. The Gospels deals with the story of God's search for man. -- Dewi Morgan
Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day. -- Pope Pius X
All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could not have been invented. -- H. G. Wells
Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed and that the Gospels contain plenty of valuable evidence which has to be weighed and assessed critically. -- Graham Stanton
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Jesus not only understood Himself to be the promised Messiah, He also says and does things throughout the Gospels that make it clear He understood Himself to be God incarnate. -- Keith Mathison
Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as presented by Jesus in the Gospels. -- Shadia Drury
All the Cosmic Drama, as it is written in the four Gospels, should be lived inside ourselves, here and now. The isn't something merely historic, it's something to live, here and now! -- Samael Aun Weor
On at least four separate occasions and recorded in the four Gospels the Lord Jesus called His disciples to deny their soul life, deliver it to death, and then to follow Him. -- Watchman Nee
The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts. -- Maurice Nicoll
I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's been a while since I've read through a whole book -- Michael W. Smith
I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons, but I couldn't find any. I found He broke up every funeral He ever attended! Death couldn't exist where He was. -- Dwight L. Moody
We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected. -- Alistair Begg
The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity. -- John Adams
Christ desires his mysteries to be published abroad as widely as possible. I would that [the Gospels and the epistles of Paul] were translated into all languages, of all Christian people, and that they might be read and known. -- William Tyndale
I will begin with the self-styled "Christian" party, who profess to base their morality on the New Testament. But whether it is really more Christian to follow or to ignore the teachings of the Gospels I shall not discuss. -- F. H. Bradley
In Detroit, in a city that in many cases the world has rejected, that's where God shows up. Every example in the Gospels where God shows up, it's always when the seas are the stormiest, where there is discontinuity. -- Clark Durant
Startling as the Gospel of Judas sounds, it amplifies hints we have long read in the Gospels of Mark and John that Jesus knew and even instigated the events of his passion, seeing them as part of a divine plan. -- Elaine Pagels
I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, they would have been more explicitly declared in the Gospels, where we are so well taught the practice of every good word and work. -- Dorothea Dix
In the New Testament outside the Gospels and the beginning of Acts, again and again, the fact of Jesus' resurrection is closely linked to our own ultimate resurrection, which isn't life after death - it's life after life after death. -- N. T. Wright
That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels. -- Will Durant
You know the phrase 'Jesus laughed' isn't ever used in the Gospels. So, most people walk away with the idea that Jesus is a pretty serious guy, pretty sour faced most of the time, pretty upset at what's going on around Him. -- John Eldredge
No one listens willingly to someone who speaks to them from a position of self-righteousness and judgment. Again and again in the Gospels, Jesus reserves his harshest words for those who ignore their own weakness in order to lord it over others. -- Pope Francis
I'm not anti-Semitic. My Gospels are not anti-Semitic. I've shown it to many Jews and they're like, it's not anti-Semitic. It's interesting that the people who say it's anti-Semitic say that before they saw the film, and they said the same thing after they saw the film. -- Mel Gibson
Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart. -- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels? -- Chuck Palahniuk
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. -- Saint Augustine
For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the New Testament. -- Elaine Pagels
Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity. -- Paulo Coelho
The Gospels were written to present the life and teachings of Jesus in ways that would be appropriate to different readerships, and for that reason are not all the same. They were not intended to be biographies of Jesus, but selective accounts that would demonstrate his significance for different cultures. -- John Drane
There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnostic gospels open out the complexity and multiplicity of approaches to this. If you think the story of the virgin birth is mistranslated, for instance, it doesn't mean you have to throw out the whole thing. -- Elaine Pagels
The Gospels record that nearly everywhere the Savior went, He was surrounded by multitudes of people. Some hoped that He would heal them; others came to hear Him speak. Others came for practical advice. Toward the end of His mortal ministry, some came to mock and ridicule Him and to clamor for His crucifixion. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice. -- Haniel Long
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels. -- George Bernard Shaw
We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication . -- Thomas Jefferson
New Testament gospels are traditionally accorded a cultural sanctity and lofty regard completely out of line with their literary worth. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry. -- Alice McDermott
The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible. -- Thomas Jefferson
One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss. -- Wendell Berry
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. -- Charles de Gaulle
Two opposing gospels are fighting one another for the soul of our nation and, increasingly, the world: the gospel of consumption and the gospel of peace. -- Leonard Sweet
Although the gospels of the New Testament-- like those discovered at Nag Hammadi-- are attributed to Jesus' followers, no one knows who actually wrote any of them. -- Elaine Pagels
I read the New Testament, specifically the gospels and I was struck at their divinity, feeling that humans could not have figured this out on their own. We're just not bright enough. -- Moby

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