Jesus Revolutionary Quotes

#1. Our late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with his universal sympathy for all oppressed and his profound understanding of Jesus' revolutionary spirit of love and sacrifice, carried on his revolutionary work for forty years and brought about at last the liberation of the Chinese people.

Chiang Kai-shek

#2. This extremely shocking and utterly revolutionary call is the essence of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus: we are not called to simply believe certain points or observe certain practices, but ultimately to cling to the person of Christ as life itself.

David Platt

#3. The problem, then, with the idea of Jesus as a nationalistic, Jewish revolutionary is that it's way too small a picture: his revolution was far greater than that, and the rebellion he began was aimed at a far, far greater power.

Nick Page

#4. I'm going to check the world's best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn't even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.

Nalo Hopkinson

#5. A Christian counts his sorrow lighter in the scale than his sin. He can bear that his troubles should continue - but he cannot support the burden of his transgressions.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#6. Evil done in the name of good. Evil done in the name of evil. Which is worse?

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#7. To win the Kentucky Derby is the goal of every trainer, every hot-walker, every backside person. They may be just rubbing on a horse, or hot-walking a horse, but they wonder if they could win the Kentucky Derby.

Bob Lewis

#8. Badgering a colleague doesn't come from a fit of pique, it comes from an organic quality of the soul. And a mean soul will inevitably be reflected in music. Wagner is a convincing example of that, but far from the only one.

Dmitri Shostakovich

#9. I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. Jesus didn't die as a frustrated failed revolutionary. His death was the revolution.

William H. Willimon

#11. Be, the money will come to you.

SARK

#12. I am but the reflection in your eyes, the effect of your expressions, and the sum of your praise and criticism.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#13. In the politics of Jesus the world will be changed by non-coercive love or not at all. It's not the task of the church to change the world by legislative force. It's the task of the church to be the world changed by Christ. This is revolutionary in a way that conventional politics never can be.

Brian Zahnd

#14. Jesus's titulus reads KING OF THE JEWS. His crime: striving for kingly rule; sedition. And so, like every bandit and revolutionary, every rabble-rousing zealot and apocalyptic prophet who came before or after him -

Reza Aslan

#15. I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.

Susannah York

#16. Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it's important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know.

Catherine Hicks

#17. Your mind, your words, your charm and your style are all the sexiness that I need in my life!

Avijeet Das

#18. The truth is that in all probability he (Jesus) never existed, but was created by the Jewish authors of the New Testament as a fantasy figure for the purpose of persuading gullible Gentiles to accept the revolutionary ideas that would be their undoing.

Christine M. Johns

#19. Focusing on what we ought to do for God creates only frustration and exhaustion; focusing on what Jesus has done for us produces abundant fruit. Resting in what Jesus has done for us releases the revolutionary power of the gospel.

J.D. Greear

#20. I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.

Fidel Castro

#21. Poor Mary. They married her to Jesus, and Jesus is an asexual circumcised revolutionary. What future is there to be had in that scenario?

Rawi Hage

#22. The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.

Lincoln Steffens

#23. Most of us assume we are seeing the world the way it really is.

Ned Herrmann

#24. We've made elevator music of Jesus Christ. We've made Him the most boring, bland, blah person; and He was the most revolutionary man.

John Eldredge

#25. The hypostatic union, or the union of the divine and human natures in the One Person of the Word, the God-Man, Jesus Christ, was not only a truth of the greatest, most revolutionary, and most existential actuality, but it was the central truth of all being and all history.

Thomas Merton

#26. Like the early Christians, we must move into a sometime hostile world armed with the revolutionary gospel of Jesus Christ. With this powerful gospel we shall boldly challenge the status quo.

Martin Luther

#27. Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#28. I never expect anything from anybody. I'm a bit Scottish like that - I don't like to be disappointed and let down. I like to take life very slowly.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#29. I'm still down with Jesus. I like to think of him mostly as a social revolutionary who mixed with bad crowds and hated the rich.

Craig Thompson

#30. Well, I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.

John Cusack

#31. In reality, Jesus' vision for intergenerational relationships was anything but cute. It was and is both radical and revolutionary.

Kara E. Powell

#32. The good news, as Jesus proclaims it, is not just an evacuation plan to rescue people from earth or the sufferings of the afterlife, transporting them to heaven. Rather, it is a revolutionary strategy to redeem the sufferings of earth by putting the rule and reign of heaven inside of people.

Ronnie McBrayer

#33. Jesus Christ to me, is probably the most compassionate and revolutionary thinker of all time.

Scott Fujita

#34. Jesus didn't fight against what was wrong. But he fought for what was right.

Ricky Maye

#35. The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

H.G.Wells

#36. Cosmopolitan theology that longs for the Kindom of God seeks to recover its revolutionary universalizing ethos in terms of hospitality, neighbor-love, and multiple solidarities that one can see in Jesus' teaching and ministry, without any imperialist, kyriarchcal, hierarchical implications

Namsoon Kang