Top 100 The Gospels Quotes
#1. The gospels were all about God becoming king, but the creeds are focused on Jesus being God.
N. T. Wright
#2. I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.
Jim Caviezel
#3. It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary creation.
Paul Louis Couchoud
#4. No one can give you faith. It is a gift from God alone. Seek and ye shall find. Read the Gospels. There is no other way.
Jennifer Worth
#5. The Gospels: God's perfection consists in non-intervention.
Simone Weil
#6. Eight, the number of perfection for every tetragon; four, the number of the Gospels; five, the number of the zones of the world; seven, the number of the gifts of the Holy Ghost.
Umberto Eco
#7. To begin with, with the possible exception of the gospel of Luke, none of the gospels we have were written by the person after whom they are named.
Reza Aslan
#8. You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.
Rachel Held Evans
#9. In the New Testament outside the Gospels and the beginning of Acts, again and again, the fact of Jesus' resurrection is closely linked to our own ultimate resurrection, which isn't life after death - it's life after life after death.
N. T. Wright
#10. Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.
Philip Schaff
#12. If the evidence supports the historical accuracy of the gospels, where is the need for faith? And if the historical reliability of the gospels is so obvious, why have so many scholars failed to appreciate the incontestable nature of the evidence?
Robert W. Funk
#13. Preach the Gospels everyday & only if you have to ... use words.
Francis Of Assisi
#14. The reason we need books like these is that the Gospels cannot simply be taken at face value as giving us historically reliable accounts of the things Jesus said and did.
Bart D. Ehrman
#15. The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.
Philip Yancey
#16. So this is how my friend died. Because I taught him how to read the gospels. And because he had the bravery to speak out about what they revealed.
Ian Caldwell
#17. Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.
Ludwig Von Mises
#18. Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.
Marilyn Manson
#19. The gospels, never meant to report, but
rather to convince, are in no sense objective and dispassionate biographies. They are glowing accounts meant to persuade people of the writers' convictions.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#20. We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected.
Alistair Begg
#21. All of Jesus' teaching on prayer in the Gospels can be summarized with one word: ask.
Paul E. Miller
#22. I have taken the liberty of quoting at length throughout from the gospels of the Emperor penguins. To them I owe a special debt of gratitude for their remarkable patience.
Donald Finkel
#23. Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with that presupposed in the gospels that the latter must be dismissed as secondary embellishments, especially as 1 Corinthians predates the gospels.
Robert M. Price
#24. If the Gospels were mythical themselves, they could not provide the knowledge that demythologizes mythology.
Rene Girard
#25. Then I studied theology in college, and when I was getting a Ph.D. in literature, I took courses in New Testament studies and studied Greek versions of the Gospels.
Jay Parini
#26. You know the phrase 'Jesus laughed' isn't ever used in the Gospels. So, most people walk away with the idea that Jesus is a pretty serious guy, pretty sour faced most of the time, pretty upset at what's going on around Him.
John Eldredge
#27. The issue of attention permeates the Gospels, yet the messages of the modern church swing wildly between the twin poles of hollow social action and shallow, myopic entertainment.
Peter Denbo Haskins
#28. So far as I can remember there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell
#29. I think the best way to view the Gospels is to view them as a magnificent portrait being painted by Jewish artists to try to capture the essence of a God experience that they believe they had with Jesus of Nazareth.
John Shelby Spong
#30. The Gospels fall apart without miracles. Today's discomfort with the miraculous reflects a fundamental unwillingness to believe God can do anything. Frankly, if God can create the world out of nothing, having his son still a storm to me seems reasonable.
Anonymous
#31. The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.
Stanley Hauerwas
#32. Stephen D'Evelyn, a scholar working primarily on Hildegard's Symphonia, was a teaching assistant in my 2005 course on "Hildegard and the Gospels" and a valuable discussion partner for the translations we looked at in class.
Beverly Mayne Kienzle
#33. Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.
Pope Pius X
#34. The point [of the gospels] is not whether Jesus is God, but what God is doing in and through Jesus. What is this embodied God up to?
N. T. Wright
#35. The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
Charles De Gaulle
#36. The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.
Maurice Nicoll
#37. Take away the stories of Jesus's birth, and all you lose is four chapters of the Gospels. Take away the resurrection and you lose the entire New Testament, and most of the second-century fathers as well.
N. T. Wright
#38. In Detroit, in a city that in many cases the world has rejected, that's where God shows up. Every example in the Gospels where God shows up, it's always when the seas are the stormiest, where there is discontinuity.
Clark Durant
#39. Unless we are constantly aware, in reading the gospels, that they are telling the Jesus story in such a way as to bring out the Israel story, we will never hear their proper harmony.
N. T. Wright
#40. What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.
Boris Pasternak
#41. In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah's history written in advance in story form.
Eli Of Kittim
#42. Christ desires his mysteries to be published abroad as widely as possible. I would that [the Gospels and the epistles of Paul] were translated into all languages, of all Christian people, and that they might be read and known.
William Tyndale
#43. Absolute ideals and absolute grace: after learning that dual message from Russian novelists, I returned to Jesus and found that it suffuses his teaching throughout the Gospels and especially in the Sermon on the Mount.
Philip Yancey
#44. If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.
Charlie Pierce
#45. Every Christian church has tried to impose a code of morals of some kind for which it has claimed divine sanction. As these codes have always been opposed to those of the gospels a loophole has been left for moral progress such as hardly exists in other religions.
John B. S. Haldane
#46. Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.
N. T. Wright
#47. If skeptics were willing to give the Gospels the same 'benefit of the doubt' they are willing to give other ancient documents, the Gospels would easily pass the test of authorship.
J. Warner Wallace
#48. If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy.
Frederic Farrar
#49. It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.
Billy Graham
#50. I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, they would have been more explicitly declared in the Gospels, where we are so well taught the practice of every good word and work.
Dorothea Dix
#51. The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.
Alice McDermott
#52. We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .
Thomas Jefferson
#53. Throughout the records of the Gospels, I saw how Jesus didn't treat women any differently than men, and I liked that.
Sarah Bessey
#54. Injil: The book that Muslims believe Allah sent to Jesus, often considered to be the gospels of the New Testament
Nabeel Qureshi
#55. The gospels do not relate the story of a misunderstood ethical teacher, a failed social revolutionary, a model of selfless humility, or even a heroic martyr; they reveal the Savior who is God incarnate, the "Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29).
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#56. Preach the Gospels everyday & only if you have to...use words.
Francis Of Assisi
#57. As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.
Alfred North Whitehead
#58. Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation as presented by Jesus in the Gospels.
Shadia Drury
#59. What the Gospels offer is not a philosophical explanation of evil - what it is or why it's there - but the story of an event in which the living God deals with it
N. T. Wright
#60. It's true, though, others won't understand me. I know that. I'm still an alien in the American Christian subculture.
Each evening I retreat from it, and I go straight to the Gospels.
It's not out of duty that I read about Jesus; it's a respite.
Brant Hansen
#61. In my mortal life, I saw mainly those texts that the church sanctioned
the gospels and the Orthodox commentary on them, for example. These works were of no use to me, in the end.
Elizabeth Kostova
#62. No one listens willingly to someone who speaks to them from a position of self-righteousness and judgment. Again and again in the Gospels, Jesus reserves his harshest words for those who ignore their own weakness in order to lord it over others.
Pope Francis
#63. When 'biblical' theologies ignore the gospels, something is clearly very wrong. (on atonement theories)
N. T. Wright
#64. In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#65. Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#66. There is no evidence that the author of the Book of Revelation, John of Patmos, read anything that we think of as a New Testament book. I don't see any evidence that he knew what was in the Gospels, or the letters of Paul, which I don't think he would have liked at all.
Elaine Pagels
#67. It is time, and long past time, to reread the gospels as what we can only call political theology - not because they are not after all about God and spirituality and new birth and holiness and all the rest, but precisely because they are.
N. T. Wright
#68. What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.
Anne Rice
#70. I would know of myself through the witnessing and naming of others. As Jesus in the Gospels is only seen and spoken of and recorded by others. I would know my existence and the value of that existence through others' eyes, which I believed I could trust as I could not trust my own.
Joyce Carol Oates
#71. Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.
Paulo Coelho
#72. Christianity is different from all other religions? They deal with the story of man's search for God. The Gospels deals with the story of God's search for man.
Dewi Morgan
#73. The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.
Bertrand Russell
#74. Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?
Chuck Palahniuk
#75. I'm sorry, I don't mean to judge, but I've read the gospels quite a few times, and it seems pretty clear that 'Christian values' are: 1-humility, 2-non-judgementalism, 3-caring for the poor, 4-compassion, 5-love, and 6-serving God.
Moby
#76. To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
Denis Diderot
#77. No books in all the world's literature have been subjected to such thorough and persistent scrutiny over a period of hundreds of years, as the Gospels.
Kenneth Richard Samples
#78. I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's been a while since I've read through a whole book.
Michael W. Smith
#79. Clearly, he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the Gospels.
Victor Hugo
#80. As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.
Rowan Williams
#81. The Gospels and the Epistles say next to nothing about emotional stability or midlife crises or a bad day at work. But they are practically overflowing with this one word: hope.
Ted Dekker
#82. The surprise lay in the third niche of the high altar, on the side where the Gospels were kept. The stone shattered at the first blow of the pickax, and a stream of living hair the intense color of copper spilled out of the crypt.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#83. Action is always superior to speech in the Gospels, which is why the Word became flesh and not newsprint.
Colin M. Morris
#84. The record of his life and teaching, the Gospels, have impacted the world so much that they have been translated into 2,527 languages. The second-most-translated book, Don Quixote, has been translated into about 60 languages. The
John Ortberg
#85. I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.
Alexander Theroux
#86. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene ... .No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.
Albert Einstein
#87. The resistance to the mimetic contagion prevents the myth from taking shape. The conclusion in the light of the Gospels is inescapable: myths are the voice of communities that unanimously surrender to the mimetic contagion of victimization.
Rene Girard
#88. But the argument is still unsound, because the first premise is false: there are other unmentioned alternatives, for example, that Jesus as described in the gospels is a legendary figure, so that the trilemma is false as it stands.
William Lane Craig
#89. Startling as the Gospel of Judas sounds, it amplifies hints we have long read in the Gospels of Mark and John that Jesus knew and even instigated the events of his passion, seeing them as part of a divine plan.
Elaine Pagels
#90. Once you start to look at the gospels one by one, you realize that followers of Jesus were trying to understand what had happened after he was arrested and killed. They knew Judas had handed him over to the people who arrested him.
Elaine Pagels
#91. The gospels are, and were written to be, fresh tellings of the story of Jesus designed to be the charter of the community of Jesus's first followers and those who, through their witness, then and subsequently, have joined in and have learned to hear, see, and know Jesus in word and sacrament.
N. T. Wright
#92. The world's myths do not reveal a way to interpret the Gospels, but exactly the reverse: the Gospels reveal to us the way to interpret myth.
Rene Girard
#93. For a long time I'd been fed on the wheat of The Imitation. It was the only book which did me any good, as I hadn't discovered the treasures of the Gospels. I knew every chapter by heart. I was never without this little book.
John Beevers
#94. Although the gospels of the New Testament
like those discovered at Nag Hammadi
are attributed to Jesus' followers, no one knows who actually wrote any of them.
Elaine Pagels
#95. I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point.
Chester Brown
#96. It is evident that the gospels were not copied from each other, for they often relate different events, and when they relate the same occurrence, each man relates those parts of it which he saw himself, and which impressed him most.
Anonymous
#97. The gospels were, in fact, written anywhere from forty to a hundred years after Jesus, and their authors attempted to demonstrate that Jesus could be seen to fulfill various Old Testament pronouncements.
Jay Parini
#98. As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart.
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
#99. As I read the Gospels, I never saw a time when Jesus was a doormat. Jesus found a perfect balance, and for me it has been an ongoing search to find the line to walk between making people happy and giving up too much in order to do so.
Shawn Michaels
#100. I read the New Testament, specifically the gospels and I was struck at their divinity, feeling that humans could not have figured this out on their own. We're just not bright enough.
Moby
