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I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point.
Chester Brown / Cartoonist
Finishing
Planning
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Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?
Chuck Palahniuk / Novelist
Jesus
Fight Club Novel
Ifs
Written
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There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.'
Michael Moore / Filmmaker
Jesus
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Nowhere
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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell / Philosopher
Death
Intelligence
Religion
Atheist
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar / Theologian
Passion
Pieces
Unity
Composed
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Narratives
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To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.
Philip Schaff /
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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
John Eldredge / Author
Jesus
Personality
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Sound
Television
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The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.
Alice Mcdermott / Writer
Catholic
Catholic Church
Liturgy
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Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.
John Piper / Author
Jesus
Rejects
True God
Worship
Anyone Else
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I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.
Troy Perry /
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The stories about the life and teachings of Jesus were mainly told in Greek, the original language of the gospels.
Jay Parini /
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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 / Film Actor
Anti Semitic
Film
People
Thinking
Business Me People
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None
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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 / Bishop Of Durham
Jesus
Kings
Establishment
Heard
Looks
Sound
Theocracy
Full
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There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.
Bono / Singer
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Hippie
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In the Gospels, we are reminded, 'The very hairs of your head are all numbered.' And your numbered hairs, like your numbered days, recede daily.
Steve Rushin / Journalist
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Numbered
Recede
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Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals.
Rene Girard /
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Blame
Victimization
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Hide
Myths
Reveals
Systematically
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For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the New Testament.
Elaine Pagels / Professor
New Testament
Testament
Assumed
Nearly
Disciples
Gospels
Sources
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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 /
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Christ
Earth
Form
Human Form
Jesus Christ
Middle
Redemption
Walks
Accomplishes
Beginning
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'The Scarlet Gospels' does, by general consensus, seem to mark a new high - or low, depending on your point of view - in its excessiveness, in its extremities.
Clive Barker / Author
Consensus
Mark
Point Of View
Scarlet
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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 / Author
Jesus
Believable
Breathing
Character
Mary
Son
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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 /
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Theology
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I was raised in a Catholic school, and I would always go to church on Sunday, and I would hear the same music over and over and over and over again, same gospels, hymns, everything.
Charlie Puth /
Music
Catholic
Catholic School
Church
Hymns
Raised
School
Sunday
Go
Music Always School
Again
Same
Music School Always
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Hear
Would
Over
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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 / Musician
Forgotten
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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 /
Doe
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Squares
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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 /
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Hundred
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Testament
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The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's almost as though Saint Paul and others who wrote the Epistles weren't that interested in whether Jesus was real.
Richard Dawkins / Ethologist
New Testament
Saint
Testament
Earliest
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Paul
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I argue that the resurrection was not the Great Resuscitation. It was a total transformation. I just don't accept the black-and-white thinking that goes along with needing to regard the gospels are literally true.
Jay Parini /
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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 / Author
Best Way
Capture
Essence
Magnificent
Nazareth
Jewish
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Painted
Portrait
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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 /
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Detroit
Rejected
God Always World
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Seas
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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 / Lyricist
Jesus
Authenticity
Fake
Joy
Paint
Picture
Fights
Contradictions
Full
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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 / Author
Laughed
Sour
Upset
Time Walk People
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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 / Nurse
Cautious
Rejecting
Salvation
Work Good Where
Doctrines
Embracing
Essential
Explicitly
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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 / Professor
Arrested
Followers
Judas
Look Start People
Gospels
Handed
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I believe that Jesus Christ existed and that He died for my sins. And I believe that what He said in the Gospels is a model for the way I should try to lead my life and that I will always fall short of that and, therefore, need Him to redeem me.
John Dickerson /
Jesus Christ
Life Believe Me
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Existed
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Sins
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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 / Poet
Jesus
Covenant
Nazareth
Relation
Jewish
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Historically
Jewish People
Mission
Re-Created
Received
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When the Bible and the Gospels say that the victims should have been spared, they do not merely 'take pity' on them. They puncture the illusion of the unanimous victimization that foundational myths use as a crisis-solving and reordering device of human communities.
Rene Girard /
Bible
Illusion
Pity
Puncture
Victimization
Communities
Device
Foundational
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Myths
Spared
Unanimous
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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 / Professor
Letters
New Testament
Testament
Author
Gospels
Paul
Revelation
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We use the word 'synoptic' to talk about Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and it really means 'seeing together,' because they all have a similar perspective. Matthew and Luke - whoever wrote those Gospels - used Mark as a focus and as a basic story. So all of them have a lot in common.
Elaine Pagels / Professor
Luke
Mark
Matthew
Perspective
Basic
Gospels
Similar
Whoever
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Digging into the creation of the Puritan mind-set involved really trying to wrap my head around extreme Calvinism and what that's all about. I now understand predestination, and I had to read the Geneva Bible cover-to-cover and read the gospels quite a bit to get into that world.
Robert Eggers /
Creation
Digging
Geneva
Mind Set
Predestination
Puritan
Extreme
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For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin / Philosopher
Conventional
Dogmatic
Estates
Justified
Ninety
Point Of View
God Great World
Appearances
Basis
Cent
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Per
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I realised at the age of 16 that unless I read the gospels, I would never have access to Renaissance art, to the music of Bach or the novels of Dostoevsky. So in the evenings, when the other boys went to play basketball or chase girls - I had no chance in either - I found my comfort in Jesus.
Amos Oz / Writer
Jesus
Chance
Access
Basketball
Comfort
Realised
Renaissance
Art Age Music
Boy
Bach
Chase
Either
Evenings
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No Chance
Novels
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Unless
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Fidel is a Marxist-Leninist. I am not. Fidel is an atheist. I am not. One day, we discussed God and Christ. I told Castro, I am a Christian. I believe in the Social Gospels of Christ. He doesn't. Just doesn't. More than once, Castro told me that Venezuela is not Cuba, and we are not in the 1960s.
Hugo Chavez / Former President Of Venezuela
Atheist
Castro
Christ
Cuba
One Day
Social
Venezuela
God Believe I Believe
God Believe I Am
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There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnostic gospels open out the complexity and multiplicity of approaches to this. If you think the story of the virgin birth is mistranslated, for instance, it doesn't mean you have to throw out the whole thing.
Elaine Pagels / Professor
Birth
Christianity
Complexity
Doctrine
Instance
Multiplicity
Approaches
Gospels
Insist
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The Gospels were written to present the life and teachings of Jesus in ways that would be appropriate to different readerships, and for that reason are not all the same. They were not intended to be biographies of Jesus, but selective accounts that would demonstrate his significance for different cultures.
John Drane /
Jesus
Accounts
Appropriate
Biographies
Different Cultures
Selective
Significance
Written
Cultures
Demonstrate
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Present
Teachings
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The Gospels record that nearly everywhere the Savior went, He was surrounded by multitudes of people. Some hoped that He would heal them; others came to hear Him speak. Others came for practical advice. Toward the end of His mortal ministry, some came to mock and ridicule Him and to clamor for His crucifixion.
Joseph B. Wirthlin / Businessman
Advice
Clamor
Crucifixion
Heal
Ministry
Mock
Multitudes
Ridicule
Savior
Nearly
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Hoped
Mortal
Practical
Surrounded
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I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.
Haniel Long / Poet
Men
Layman
Lord
Our Lord
Speaks Out
Theologian
Voice
Man I Am Me
Among
Meant
Gospels
Listener
Preach
Reads
Speaks
Willingly
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Who was Jesus anyway? After twenty centuries, there is not much anyone can agree on. The four canonical gospels don't measure up to modern standards of biographical writing, and - outside of this material - there is precious little contemporary evidence, apart from a few glancing mentions of Jesus or the movement centered on him.
Jay Parini /
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Standards
Anyway
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Centuries
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