Jesus Message Quotes

#1. I don't argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus' message was simple.

Joel Osteen

#2. If heaven may be found here and now, then heaven cannot be merely found in the absence of struggle as most of us assume, but in the very heart of our struggles. If Jesus' message is true, then our deepest challenges may offer our most profound opportunities. Heaven is found in the Dark Wood!

Eric Elnes

#3. 'Jesus' message was to love your neighbour as yourself, and there are people in need. I hope that people got that message.

Madonna Ciccone

#4. The core of the Jesus message is what has made him relevant for twenty centuries.

Jay Parini

#5. If it's not setting you free and enlarging life, then it's not Jesus' message. If it doesn't sound like good news, it's not the gospel.

Philip Yancey

#6. This is misguided and toxic and ultimately subverts the contagious spread of Jesus' message of love, peace, forgiveness and joy that our world desperately needs to hear,

Rob Bell

#7. For a staggering number of people in our world the for of the Jesus message has been buried under a massive pile of againsts. Somewhere

Rob Bell

#8. I'm going to use whatever God blesses me with as a platform to tell the world that God is for you. He proved it through sending Jesus down here to die for us and be resurrected. And for us that gives us second chances and it gives us hope, and so we spread that message everywhere.

Jase Robertson

#9. To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've stumbled upon the very freedom I've longed for in the very place I'd least expected it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. Jesus would be another wise man or philosopher like Socrates if it were not for three words. With the declaration of these words the message of the good news of Jesus Christ changed from "fanatical audacity", to the fantastic reality of a reconciled relationship and eternal hope. "HE IS RISEN!

Tom Barton

#11. This heretical perversion of the message of Jesus that most often passes for Christianity today has been aptly termed churchianity. People go to church, profess a belief in Jesus totally devoid of a belief in his teachings, and then self-righteously proclaim themselves to be "Christians.

Robert S. McElvaine

#12. Our chaotic, confused world has no greater need than to hear the message of good news - the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Billy Graham

#13. Jesus himself, as the gospel story goes on to its dramatic conclusion, lives out the same message of the Sermon on the Mount: he is the light of the world, he is the salt of the earth, he loves his enemies and gives his life for them, he is lifted up on a hill so that the world can see.

N. T. Wright

#14. Not only did Jesus come as a universal gift, He came as an individual offering with a personal message to each one of us.

Heber J. Grant

#15. In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same.

Marshall McLuhan

#16. There is a tension in the Bible between justice and mercy, between the Old Testament and the New Testament. And the New Testament says you can never be good enough: goodness is the thing, and you can never live up to it. The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time.

Paul Kalanithi

#17. If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

Leonard Ravenhill

#18. Absolute ideals and absolute grace: after learning that dual message from Russian novelists, I returned to Jesus and found that it suffuses his teaching throughout the Gospels and especially in the Sermon on the Mount.

Philip Yancey

#19. What if Jesus' secret message reveals a secret plan?. What if he didn't come to start a new religion-but rather came to start a political, social, religious, artistic, economic, intellectual, and spiritual revolution that would give birth to a new world?

Brian D. McLaren

#20. If we're not reaching the same people Jesus reached, then we're not preaching the same message Jesus preached.

Tullian Tchividjian

#21. The message of the Bible is clear: Jesus Christ is Lord! It's a fact. Bringing our lives into submission to His will in everything is the key to being a godly woman. It is also the path to joy.

Barbara Hughes

#22. Becoming like the heavenly Father is not just one important aspect of Jesus' teaching, it is the very heart of his message.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#23. The grace gospel is the only message which puts Jesus at the center of all things. The very essence of life is Christ. In Him is life...

Paul Silway

#24. The life of Jesus Christ is a message of hope, a message of mercy, a message of life in a dark world.

Max Lucado

#25. The message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is that we can and must expect to become better as long as we live.

Henry B. Eyring

#26. Jesus' words are inseparable from his person. He himself is the message he proclaims.

George Eldon Ladd

#27. And suddenly I realized that this too was a message, a last wordless communication among neighbors. For I, too, had a hiding place when things were bad. Jesus was this place, the Rock cleft for me. I pressed a finger to the tiny crevice.

Corrie Ten Boom

#28. Jesus's central message was not primarily about how to get to heaven when you die, or about becoming a better person. The central message of Jesus was about the coming of God's kingdom.

Preston Sprinkle

#29. The Scriptures categorically state that the problem with such people is not the absence of evidence; it is, rather, the suppression of it. The message of Jesus Christ shifts the charge of insufficiency from the volume of evidence to the intent of one's will.

Ravi Zacharias

#30. This message God was communicating to mankind, this Gospel of Jesus, was a message to the heart as much as to the head, that the methodology was as important as the message itself, that the message could not be presented accurately outside of the emotions within which these truths were embedded.

Donald Miller

#31. You can take course after course of so-called theology and never hear the message at the heart of Christianity - the message of Jesus, which is indiscriminate love.

Eileen Egan

#32. It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.

Mahatma Gandhi

#33. If the message of Jesus was love, hope and compassion, and I can bring that to more people by being a more appealing Jesus, I am happy with that.

Diogo Morgado

#34. If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.

Kurt Vonnegut

#35. Don't preach the law message and expect people to be saved.

Paul Silway

#36. Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn't make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the eyes to see and the ears to hear ... then his message was easily understood.

Brandon Andress

#37. Jesus came to save souls in his fathers name with love and only love that is why he turned up as a man, so why can't we see his real message?

Ravi Zacharias

#38. In conversion, God interferes with out lives. We relinquish autonomy. If we find the gospel message to be true, we need to surrender to God and change our lives. For that reason - whether or not the trilemma or some form of it works - many will still never assent that Jesus is God.

Gregory S. Cootsona

#39. Kyle Idleman's Not a Fan is a crucial message for our time. It's a powerful call to commitment and to following Jesus with all our hearts that has challenged me in the best of ways!

Jud Wilhite

#40. Our message and methodology have changed, do change, and must change if we are faithful to the ongoing and unchanging mission of Jesus Christ.

Brian D. McLaren

#41. If we take the poor away from the Gospel, we won't be able to understand the whole message of Jesus Christ.

Pope Francis

#42. Paul did not begin by attacking the false teachers and their doctrines. He began by exalting Jesus Christ and showing His preeminence in five areas: the gospel message, redemption, creation, the church, and Paul's own ministry.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#43. Jesus of Nazareth was a real man, living and dying at a turbulent moment in real space-time history. His message, and the message about him that the early Christians called good news, was not about how to escape that world. It was about how the one true God was changing it, radically and forever.

N. T. Wright

#44. The Gospel of Thomas claims to be the secret sayings of Jesus. There are 114 of them, so it says many things, but the central message is that Jesus is the one who reveals the divine light that brought the universe into being, and that you and I also reveal that light.

Elaine Pagels

#45. 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.

Mitt Romney

#46. When you have loved deeply, that love can grow even stronger after the death of the person you love. That is the core message of Jesus.

Henri Nouwen

#47. On fire for the Lord," the Yoes began to talk to their friends about Jesus and even went so far as to name their dog "Repent" so they could stand in the city's parks and shout the canine's name and their message at the top of their lungs.

Larry Eskridge

#48. Listen to Jesus and follow him. That's the message of the Transfiguration.

Pope Francis

#49. The Christian test was a willingness to believe in the one Jesus Christ and His Message of salvation. What was demanded was not criticism but credulity. The Church Fathers observed that in the realm of thought only heresy had a history.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#50. My position would be to see Jesus and Paul as people used by God to bring the monotheism and the moral message of Judaism to the world, and to teach the world that the God discovered and worshiped by the Jews was the only true God.

Harold S. Kushner

#51. The birth of Jesus is a birth with a message. It takes the entire Bible to bring the complete message, but this birth is the core of it: In Jesus, God is here to give us life, real life.

Eugene H. Peterson

#52. The message of Christmas is a message of hope when all other such messages created by men can do nothing more than be hopeful.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#53. I do know this ... I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

Joel Osteen

#54. For all of us involved in preaching the gospel, performing music, publishing Christian materials, and all the rest, there is an uncomfortable message here: Jesus is not terribly impressed with religious commercialism

Jim Cymbala

#55. Jesus's message to his contemporaries, and the church's message about Jesus, never fit what people expect. Often enough, they don't fit what the church itself expects.

N. T. Wright

#56. We can receive Jesus Christ when we believe in His message and trust in Him alone to save us.

Billy Graham

#57. The primary message of the Christian Church is that we were born in sin and we need to be rescued; we cannot rescue ourselves, so God comes to our rescue, pays the price of our sin and transforms us through the death of Jesus.

John Shelby Spong

#58. The purpose of the Bible is simply to proclaim God's plan to save His children. It asserts that man is lost and needs to be saved. And it communicates the message that Jesus is the God in the flesh sent to save His children.

Max Lucado

#59. From Genesis to Revelation, here's the central message: God Almighty, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit of God, the Triune God is in control of all things, period.

Charles Stanley

#60. When a newspaper posed the question, "What's Wrong with the World?" the Catholic thinker G. K. Chesterton reputedly wrote a brief letter in response: "Dear Sirs: I am. Sincerely Yours, G. K. Chesterton." That is the attitude of someone who has grasped the message of Jesus.

Timothy Keller

#61. The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#62. I [Jesus] tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.

Anonymous

#63. It was the reward of the loyal female disciples who had accompanied Jesus to the place of crucifixion and stayed with him through the horror of his execution, to be entrusted by him with the most powerful message that has ever impacted the world: 'He is risen.

Gilbert Bilezikian

#64. Jesus first of all, loves His Father in heaven and would never compromise the message that sinners must be delivered or be damned. That is the reason Jesus came to earth-to save sinners.

Kirk Cameron

#65. While the Christian message is increasingly becoming less acceptable in fashionable society, we must be always living according to Scripture and prepared to be apologists for Jesus Christ in all aspects of our lives.

Jonathan Falwell

#66. When others sit, a #StaticJedi is found standing - even standing along, with a message not in hand but secure in heart!

Eric Samuel Timm

#67. For love doesn't stand alone, nor can it, but trails like a blazing comet, bringing with it other shining goods - forgiveness, kindness, tolerance, fairness, companionability and friendship, all bound to the love which is at the heart of Jesus's message.

Ian McEwan

#68. Every reporter who came up in legacy media can tell you about a come-to-Jesus moment when an editor put them up against a wall and tattooed a message deep into their skull: show respect for the fundamentals of the craft, or you would not soon be part of it.

Mary Karr

#69. Give your false prophet a message for me. Tell him Jesus befriended the whores and the thieves and the sinners. Tell him his Old Testament God is dead. God doesn't punish the wicked and save the righteous. God is love.

Jennifer Bosworth

#70. [...]this whole world is sustained only for the sake of Jesus Christ, his Word, and his message.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#71. The Bible is primarily concerned with the story of man's redemption as it is in Jesus Christ. If you read Scripture and miss the story of salvation, you have missed its message and its meaning.

Billy Graham

#72. The central message of the Bible is Jesus Christ.

Billy Graham

#73. Remove the centrality-of-Jesus-Christ message from ministry and meetings, and you can forget church life or organic meetings. He must be the center of everything ... not in lip service, but in the dynamic experiential whole.

Gene Edwards

#74. The war is really about religion. The war's between Jesus and Muhammad. The Christians say Jesus is the messenger. Muslims say Muhammad is the messenger. Who gives a expletive who the messenger is did you get the message?

Eddie Griffin

#75. JESUS WASHES OUR FEET FOR TWO REASONS. The first is to give us mercy; the second is to give us a message, and that message is simply this: Jesus offers unconditional grace; we are to offer unconditional grace.

Max Lucado

#76. Now the parable takes on a very personal focus. We can no longer enjoy observation without participation. We are part of the drama that is staged in this parable. Jesus came. What have we done with the truth of His message and the gift of His forgiving death?

Lloyd John Ogilvie

#77. The gospel of Jesus Christ is good news, glad tidings, and much more. It is the message of salvation as repeatedly announced by Jesus Christ and His apostles and prophets. It is my firm belief that all truth and light originating with God is embraced in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#78. Because a loveless world," said Jesus, "is a sightless world. If anyone loves me, he will carefully keep my word and my Father will love him - we'll move right into the neighborhood! Not loving me means not keeping my words. The message you are hearing isn't mine. It's the

Eugene H. Peterson

#79. Jesus did thunder warnings of suffering & condemnation, but primarily to those who were convinced they were healthy & in no need of Him. To the weak, diseased, hungry & sin-bound, He had another message. Come to me, all you who are weary & burdened ...

Mike Yankoski

#80. Close Scrutiny of the scriptures reveals that the kingdom was the only message Jesus preached

Sunday Adelaja

#81. If it be objected that God must give every man an opportunity to be saved, we reply that the outward call does give every man who hears it an opportunity to be saved. The message is: 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.'

Loraine Boettner

#82. Only because the message concerning Jesus Christ must still go forth and find believers, and because our task is not yet perfected, does God in His patience continue to sustain us with His good gifts.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#83. You and I, today and always, are to bear witness of Jesus Christ and declare the message of the Restoration ... Missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage.

David A. Bednar

#84. The message of Easter is not that Jesus is alive, it is so much more. The message of Easter is that Jesus has risen!

Colin S. Smith

#85. Jesus has entrusted His message of salvation to His followers. Faithfully share the message!

Jim George

#86. While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.

N. T. Wright

#87. President Howard W. Hunter explained that the gospel of Jesus Christ, which gospel we teach and the ordinances of which we perform, is a global faith with an all-embracing message. It is neither confined nor partial nor subject to history or fashion.

Robert L. Millet

#88. Have we forgotten our calling? (2 Cor. 5:19-20) Remember that your first and foremost calling is to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ, and that gospel is a twofold message: His death for our sins and His resurrection for our lives.

Kay Arthur

#89. Romans expounds the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ to both Jewish and Gentile believers. It's written to everyone! Anybody who truly understands and embraces its message will be forever changed in the way they relate to God.

Andrew Wommack