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I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point. — Chester Brown

Preach the Gospels everyday & only if you have to...use words. — Francis Of Assisi

You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist. — Rachel Held Evans

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels? — Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

Action is always superior to speech in the Gospels, which is why the Word became flesh and not newsprint. — Colin M. Morris

For me, though, the miracle stories written about Jesus in the four Gospels came alive in my spirit. They — Thelma Gilbert

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

Where would Jesus be if no one ever wrote the gospels? — Chuck Palahniuk

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

Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels. — John Piper

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

In none of the Gospels does Jesus tell his disciples to extend the kingdom, work for the kingdom, build up the kingdom, or further the kingdom. — John E. Goldingay

The spirit of the Gospels is the all inclusive love of Jesus, which jumps off the pages. — Amos Smith

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels. — Bridget Of Sweden

The gospels were all about God becoming king, but the creeds are focused on Jesus being God. — N. T. Wright

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor. — Dorothy Day

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

Miracle centered gospels cripple the present and generations to come. — Sunday Adelaja

The Gospels did not start the Church; the Church started the Gospels. The Church did not come out of the Gospels; the Gospels came out of the Church. — Fulton J. Sheen

Bad news is the backdrop against which the Good News really stands out. — Matt Chandler

Clearly, he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the Gospels. — Victor Hugo

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death. — Alfred North Whitehead

Miracle focus messages compels masses to think that the process of production is not necessary for prosperity — Sunday Adelaja

How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects? — Richard Aldington

We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication . — Thomas Jefferson

I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality. — Troy Perry

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

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature. — Denis Diderot

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

If the Gospels were mythical themselves, they could not provide the knowledge that demythologizes mythology. — Rene Girard

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels. — George Bernard Shaw

There is nowhere in the four Gospels where Jesus uses the word 'homosexual.' — Michael Moore

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

The stories about the life and teachings of Jesus were mainly told in Greek, the original language of the gospels. — Jay Parini

The Gospels actually taught this:
Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. so it goes. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels. — Alexander Theroux

Nonviolence is the very essence of the gospels. — Helene Iswolsky

If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God's activity, then defeat was only the beginning. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

Both gospels employ the term "Son of God" exactly as it is used throughout the Hebrew Scriptures: as a royal title, not a description. — Reza Aslan

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation. — Philip Schaff

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry. — Alice McDermott

Miracle centered gospels do more damage than good to the listeners and nation. — Sunday Adelaja

All of Jesus' teaching on prayer in the Gospels can be summarized with one word: ask. — Paul E. Miller

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Gospels: God's perfection consists in non-intervention. — Simone Weil

Throughout the records of the Gospels, I saw how Jesus didn't treat women any differently than men, and I liked that. — Sarah Bessey

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss. — Wendell Berry

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

The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible. — Thomas Jefferson

The reason we haven't yet fully understood the Jesus story is that we are gospel-based rather than Bible-based Christians! — Eli Of Kittim

The Jesus of the Gospels is surely not convenient for us. — Pope Benedict XVI

Injil: The book that Muslims believe Allah sent to Jesus, often considered to be the gospels of the New Testament — Nabeel Qureshi

The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians. — Bertrand Russell

So far as I can remember there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. — Bertrand Russell

When 'biblical' theologies ignore the gospels, something is clearly very wrong. (on atonement theories) — N. T. Wright

Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook. — Ludwig Von Mises

Preach the Gospels everyday & only if you have to ... use words. — Francis Of Assisi

Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us. — Ivan Illich

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected. — Kurt Vonnegut

Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off. — John Eldredge

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

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

Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue. — Marilyn Manson

Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels? — Thomas Adams

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

There are five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and the Christian. Most people will never read the first four. — Rodney "Gipsy" Smith

If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy. — Frederic Farrar