Most Popular Jesus Quotes

#1. I like the way Chee kept God magical, sorta like Santa Claus when you're a kid. More priests should take this approach, because there is a frickin' reason why Santa Claus is more popular than Jesus nowadays.

Matthew Quick

#2. I think the reason Jesus is so popular, just on a celebrity level, is that he died at the peak of his career.

Marc Maron

#3. When are you most afraid? When the teacher hands out the test? When the popular people walk your way? When you think about the future? Even in your most fearful moments, Jesus is with you, offering a peace you can't find anywhere else.

Max Lucado

#4. Lennon had a good point when he said that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, the Beatles have a longer Wikipedia page.

Zachary Crosby

#5. Look, I wasn't saying the Beatles are better than God or Jesus. I said 'Beatles' because it's easy for me to talk about Beatles. I could have said TV or the cinema, motor cars or anything popular and I would have gotten away with it.

John Lennon

#6. It is not at all surprising that the disciples imagined that the law had been abrogated, when Jesus made promises like this. For these promises reversed all popular notions of right and wrong, and pronounced a blessing on all that was accounted worthless.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#7. My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.

Reza Aslan

#8. We had a little wine, except Jill, because she's a Christian, which made no sense to me, since Jesus was the one who made wine so popular.

Jim Provenzano

#9. You can tell how popular a church is by who comes on Sunday morning. You can tell how popular the pastor or evangelist is by who comes on Sunday night. But you can tell how popular Jesus is by who comes to the prayer meeting.

Jim Cymbala

#10. I think it's also important for people to really see that your identity doesn't come just from what you do but who you are. My relationship with Jesus Christ is the most important thing to me. Because of that, I don't have to change whether I am one of the most popular guys in football.

Tim Tebow

#11. We're more popular than Jesus Christ now.

John Lennon

#12. At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or Buddhism's Four Noble Truths but that they hold certain moral positions on bedroom issues such as premarital sex, homosexuality, and abortion.

Stephen Prothero

#13. It is obvious that the bumper sticker question "What would Jesus do?" will not always bring a popular response.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#14. ... Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

John Lennon

#15. The man that is popular with the world is not a friend of Jesus. You cannot serve two masters. The world hates Christ, and if you are a friend of the world you cannot be a friend of His. You may be sure that something is wrong with you when everybody is your friend.

Dwight L. Moody

#16. We live in an age where ... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.

Pat Buchanan