Top 18 Jesus Nonviolence Quotes

#1. Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy ... the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them.

Angela Davis

#2. Non Violence and Religion:
Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#3. I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

Shirley Maclaine

#4. I wanted to act, dance and perform more than anything, and I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.

Rachele Brooke Smith

#5. Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. And so, it's not a thing of how many carries, but were you effective when you did carry.

Franco Harris

#7. If the Universe is playing a beautiful song, each one of our lives is a note in that song.

Catherine Louise Birmingham

#8. Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including 'vice president,' that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.

Joe Biden

#9. On balance, I would say that anybody who reminds our lords and masters that the computerized society is fragile ... has definitely done a service to the public at large.

John Brunner

#10. I know what you're thinking.Girlfriend has fallen out of the stoopid tree and bonked her head against every branch on the way down.

Jennifer Echols

#11. Perhaps the greatest contribution that those of us who come from a Christian tradition can make is to throw out the old just-war theory, embrace the nonviolence of Jesus, refuse to kill one another, and truly follow his commandment to love our enemies.

Mairead Corrigan

#12. I'm 72-years-old. There's not a hell of a lot they can do to me. I will continue to report what I see and what I feel to be true.

Robert Novak

#13. Dirt is just matter out of place.

Robert W. Service

#14. Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus.

Stanley Hauerwas

#15. We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

William James

#16. There are no signs of religion at all; no priest to hear my sins, no God to push open the pearly gates, nor a devil to welcome me with a pitchfork. All of this seems so meaningless.

Nicholas A. McGirr

#17. Part of John's meaning of the cross, then, is that it is not only what happens, purely pragmatically, when God's kingdom challenges Caesar's kingdom. It is also what has to happen if God's kingdom, which makes its way (as Jesus insists) by nonviolence rather than by violence, is to win the day.

N. T. Wright

#18. Breakfast," he muttered. "And I wouldnt care to make you choose between lovingmaking or a hot meal, as the answer would likely be unflattering. Put on your gown, while I got to the door.

Lisa Kleypas

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