Quotes About Pontius Pilate

#1. Do not make me laugh, stupid Jew." Pontius Pilate had said upon hearing Anna's explanation. "Your tribal God, Yahweh. Is a very weak God if he has allowed your people to become vassals of mighty Rome.

Viktor Shel

#2. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of fabric is governed by gravity.

Marianne Moore

#3. Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.

Ben Lindsey

#4. No one, no one at all, ever set out to torture us on purpose! ... After all, was it because Pontius Pilate wanted to humiliate him that Christ was crucified between two thieves? It just happened to be crucifixion day that day - and there was only one Golgotha, and time was short.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#5. He wants us to have a ministry abiding in God's rest. A ministry that isn't a burden...

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?

Pontius Pilate

#7. I am not made for despair

Lian Hearn

#8. Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him.

Pontius Pilate

#9. Whether will the twain will ye that I release unto you?

Pontius Pilate

#10. Actually, I played Pontius Pilate as nice. An actor spends his life thinking he is Christ, and then he gets to play the character that killed him.

James Nesbitt

#11. God did not choose Herod or Pontius Pilate or Caesar Augustus as His instrument. He chose the unknown son of an unknown carpenter in one of the least important stretches of the Roman Empire.

Dan Simmons

#12. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious. The name thing: I will always be L.L. Cool J.

LL Cool J

#13. Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can.

Pontius Pilate

#14. What shall I do then with Jesus, which is called Christ?

Pontius Pilate

#15. If that guy had defended Pontius Pilate, he would have convinced the jury that he was simply assisting a young carpenter who wanted to buy some nails for a cross he was working on.

Jeffrey Archer

#16. Grief is not a pleasure, but it makes me remember, and I am grateful.

Abigail Thomas

#17. 'The Master and Margarita' is deeply to do with the unconscious. It is a story about a man who writes a story in a time when he's not supposed to write that story: the story of Pontius Pilate.

Simon McBurney

#18. It isn't every day an ex decides to haunt us.

Marybeth Niederkorn

#19. What I have written, I have written.

Pontius Pilate

#20. Sometimes I wish I never had to sleep. Sometimes I think that if I stay very, very still, if I never move at all, things will change. I think if I freeze myself I can freeze the pain. Sometimes I won't move for hours. I will not move an inch. If time stands still nothing can go wrong.

Tahereh Mafi

#21. 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

#22. Christians, for instance, are not, properly speaking, believers in religion; rather, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under Pontius Pilate, rose from the dead and is now, by the power of the Holy Spirit, present to his church as its Lord.

David Bentley Hart

#23. Art thou the King of the Jews?

Pontius Pilate

#24. I enjoy getting to be arty and quirky and weird and all the things that I don't have that much choice with. You just sort of use what you got.

Paul Reubens

#25. Why give me this life and then give me this disease? Why give me joy and beauty of you and Charlie and then snatch it away? It's like showing someone a glimpse of what life could be like and in the next breath telling them that it can never happen

Michael Robotham

#26. I am innocent of the blood of this just person; see ye to it.

Pontius Pilate

#27. If you are not wrong only Pontius Pilate can crucify you.

Amit Abraham

#28. What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?

Pontius Pilate

#29. Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.

Donna Brazile

#30. Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.

Patrick Ness

#31. Pontius Pilate! God will not let you clean your hands of this!

Arthur Miller

#32. If it is the case that we are merely slaves to the natural processes computing our advanced fight and flight responses, then we are never truly thinking, which means that logic and reason - the things we hold so dear - do not exist either.

Lewis N. Roe

#33. Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?

Pontius Pilate

#34. Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away.

Frederick Lenz