Quotes About Ascension Of Jesus

#1. The ascension of Jesus was the supreme political event of world history. He ascended not so much

R.C. Sproul

#2. The whole of history since the ascension of Jesus into heaven is concerned with one work only: the building and perfecting of this City of God.

Augustine Of Hippo

#3. Every way that we try to make our kids good that isn't rooted in the good news of the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ is a damnable, crushing, despair-breedin g, Pharisee-produc ing law.

Elyse Fitzpatrick

#4. Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about.

Jacquelyn Mitchard

#5. I was wearing women's jeans way before it was cool for guys to wear them. I have a weird torso - it's incredibly short, and only girl-pants fit me properly.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#6. God is inseparably linked to the coming of Pentecost. In a certain sense, Jesus lacked the authority to dispatch the Spirit prior to His ascension.

R.C. Sproul

#7. The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.

H.L. Mencken

#8. Alexia wondered what it said about her character that Ivy had genuinely believed she would intentionally go climbing about the side of a floating dirigible.

Gail Carriger

#9. Life isn't about just having dreams, it's all about transforming them into reality.

M.H. Rakib

#10. It's exciting for people to define who they are in relation to what I write - whether it be by loving or hating it.

Alanis Morissette

#11. With respect to the books of the New Testament, particularly such parts as tell us of the resurrection and ascension of Christ, any person who could tell a story of an apparition, or of a man's walking, could have made such books; for the story is most wretchedly told.

Thomas Paine

#12. Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.

Richard Dawkins

#13. She was blissfully unaware of her peril.

Anne Taintor

#14. That which was published in the Law, the prophets, and psalms before "God was manifested in flesh"
looks forward to Jesus the Christ; what was published after Christ's ascension looks back to Him as "the Lord God of Israel" who "hath visited and redeemed His people" (Luke 1:68).

Tim Liwanag

#15. The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.

Charles Stanley

#16. The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#17. Imagine being with the apostles and having the opportunity of seeing Jesus being taken up into heaven. Imagine if you had been there to witness to the ascension of Christ. For sure it must have been an awesome experience!

George Calleja

#18. Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God could have an ethnically diverse family of Jews and Gentiles.

Derwin L. Gray

#19. The story of Acts, even after Jesus's ascension, is about what Jesus continued to do and teach. And the way he did it and taught it was - through his followers.

N. T. Wright

#20. Your hate will only harm you," he said. "Just

Amy Harmon

#21. I'm the clown you take out of the box and wind up when you need a good laugh. And then, when you're done with me, I go back in my box.

Richard Simmons

#22. You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can't really fake it.

Peter Diamandis

#23. Fall the deep curtains,
delicate the weave,
fair the thread.

Hilda Doolittle

#24. Bob Woodward, this is Steve Thomas.

John Feinstein