Quotes About The Ascension Of Jesus

#1. 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

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

R.C. Sproul

#3. 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

#4. Nature is not mute; it is man who is deaf.

Terence McKenna

#5. It seems that the most significant events in our lives happen while we're worried about something else happening.

Richard Paul Evans

#6. Define a feather when condemned to the wind. Say how the shaft tapers, straining to be weightless. Describe what the vanes do on the air, how they luff and ruffle and flute, how the barbs somersault on the downward curve of their resisting ride.

Richard Powers

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Charles Stanley

#11. 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

#12. He grinned, a woman's downfall wrought in a simple stretch of his lips. It was her downfall, certainly, her personal undoing because she never saw the expression outside their private chambers. It was her exclusive domain and never failed to turn her knees wobbly.

Ashlyn Macnamara

#13. I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Steve Southerland

#14. 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

#15. There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.

Usain Bolt

#16. 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

#17. I started billboard painting in Minneapolis, and I went to General Outdoor Advertising, and I said, 'I could do that.' They said, 'Oh yeah ... we can always use a good man around here.'

James Rosenquist

#18. 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