As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see but I apprehend it has received various corrupt changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his divinity tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and I think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble.
Quotes about nazareth (14 Quotes)
There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.
I plan on being a sponge all year and see how quickly we can adapt. I can't imagine doing this from Nazareth.
'Can any good come out of Nazareth' This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes from exactly that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always different from what was expected. Everything new is received with contemptfor it begins in obscurity. It becomes a power unobserved.
PAGANS LITERACY MOCK THE FATE CHRISTIANS IN THE CHRISTIANITY OF JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH.
Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.
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.
I'd say we've had one of the better programs in the last 12 years -- we've been to state half of those years. Nazareth has been one of the top ones since I don't know when.
The efforts of certain Christian factions to cast themselves as the inheritors of America's Judaeo-Christian tradition find little support in the embarrassing heterodoxy of this Founding Father 'But the greatest of all reformers of the depraved religion of his own country was Jesus of Nazareth. Abstracting what is really his from the rubbish in which it is buried, easily distinguished by its lustre from the dross of his biographers, and as separable as the diamond from the dunghill, we have the outlines of a system of the most sublime morality which has ever fallen from the lips of man outlines which it is lamentable he did not live to fill up. . . . The establishment of the innocent and genuine character of this benevolent moralist, and the rescuing it from the imputation of imposture, which has resulted from artificial systems, invented by ultra-Christian sects, unauthorized by a single word ever uttered by him, is a most desirable object. . . .'
His mother Mary of Nazareth
Sat watching beside his place of rest,
Watching the even flow of his breath,
For the joy of life and the terror of death
Were mingled together in her breast.
Hymn for a Household Shepherd of mortals, here behold A little flock, a wayside fold That wait thy presence to be blest O Man of Nazareth, be our guest.
Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable, wonderful short stories that entertained and clothed the moral precept in an eternal form. It is not sufficient to catch man's mind, you must also catch the imaginative faculties of his mind.
I told them to just be patient and keep doing what we do and not to get out of our element. Nazareth played a great defensive game all day, so I told them to be patient. We just needed to be sure that we got a good look.
Thou settest Earthquake in the South --
And Maelstrom, in the Sea --
Say, Jesus Christ of Nazareth --
Hast thou no Arm for Me?