Jesus Shock Quotes

#1. The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

Peter Kreeft

#2. The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Peter Kreeft

#3. This man welcomes sinners and eats with them," Jesus confronted the Pharisees and scribes not only with the return of the prodigal son, but also with the resentful elder son. It must have come as a shock to these dutiful religious people.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#4. Love gives you eyes.

Peter Kreeft

#5. I want everyone out there in TV land to touch the TV. Touch the back of the TV and get a shock for Jesus.

Robin Williams

#6. Never go with a hippie to a second location.

Tina Fey

#7. Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us.

Peter Kreeft

#8. Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.

Peter Kreeft

#9. Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

Peter Kreeft

#10. It is the absoluteness of meaninglessness that Christianity, as I understand it, inhabits and inflects, the shock and stark violence of the cross that discloses the living Christ. Revelation, like creation, arises not merely out of nothingness but by means of it.

Christian Wiman

#11. It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

Peter Kreeft

#12. Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human comparisons for such a look. Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas.

Stephenie Meyer

#13. It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

Peter Kreeft

#14. If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.

Peter Kreeft

#15. I always try to adjust to the situation.

Novak Djokovic

#16. Pilate's skeptical sneer "What is truth?" was addressed to Truth Himself, standing there right in front of his face. The world's stupidest question was three words; God's profoundest answer was one Word.

Peter Kreeft

#17. What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

Shia Labeouf

#18. Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.

Hetti Perkins

#19. Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.

Peter Kreeft

#20. Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

Peter Kreeft

#21. Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

Peter Kreeft

#22. Not only in personal relationships, but also in professional life, if like minded people work together, it is a beauty to witness

Rajasaraswathii

#23. Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

Peter Kreeft

#24. The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.

Peter Kreeft

#25. This can come as a shock to those Christians who are so used to hearing that Jesus is the solution to sin that they assume that the remedy started with the death of Jesus.

Doug Pagitt

#26. Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

Peter Kreeft

#27. This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

Peter Kreeft

#28. God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.

Peter Kreeft

#29. We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

Peter Kreeft

#30. I went through a period where I just wanted to punch everybody. Since then, I've had a lot of therapy and I've figured a lot of things out.

Guy Pearce

#31. I'm generally in favor of economic globalization. Having said that, it doesn't always work and does not immediately work in the interest of all. There are sufferers.

Amartya Sen

#32. It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.

Peter Kreeft