Quotes About Tax Collectors

#1. Many tax collectors and sinners came as guests to eat with Jesus

Anonymous

#2. When Clinton said he was going to create 8 million new jobs, I didn't think they were all going to be tax collectors.

Jay Leno

#3. Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen ... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in every soul and is never extinguished ...

Paulo Coelho

#4. 46For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Anonymous

#5. A brick could be used to cook with, as a thickening agent in gravy. But as history proves, the thickest agents work for the government as tax collectors.

Jarod Kintz

#6. Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant!

Charles Krauthammer

#7. I've never fully understood how Christianity became quite so tame and respectable, given its origins among drunkards, prostitutes, and tax collectors.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#8. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Jesus Christ

#9. I would have thought you'd import an English staff?"
"Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.

Dan Brown

#10. Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve; when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no one to tax, starve also

Laozi

#11. the tax collectors found no more money to collect because there were no more people to pay the tax.

William Stearns Davis

#12. As Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount, "If you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?" (Matt. 5:46). In other words, if I love only when I feel like it, then I've really not understood love.

Paul E. Miller

#13. What if...what if that is the price one has to pay for staying on? Perhaps that is how they look at it: perhaps that is how I should look at it too. They see me as owing something. They see themselves as debt collectors, tax collectors. Why should I be allowed to live here without paying?

J.M. Coetzee

#14. Then, there are the places you would rather not go-a tax collectors' convention, a sewage treatment plant, or maybe the home of someone who keeps spiders as pets and insists on taking them out of their cages and making you hold them.

Obert Skye

#15. At any time of the day, corduroy is a highly stressful fabric. Rent collectors wear it. Tax collectors, too. History teachers add leather elbow patches.

Zadie Smith

#16. Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.

Mitch McConnell

#17. Freedom is the quality of being free from the control of regulators and tax collectors. If I want to be free their control, I must not impose controls on others.

Hans F. Sennholz

#18. We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.

Andy Rooney

#19. Despise your heart. I wanted to. I didn't want to grieve anymore, to feel loss or guilt, or worry. I wanted to be hard, calculating. I wanted to be fearless.

Leigh Bardugo

#20. In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

Colin Greenwood

#21. I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals flaming.

Matt Groening

#22. For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.

Sallust

#23. Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.

Kurt Vonnegut

#24. Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away

Katrina Kenison