Sermon On The Mount Quotes - Page 2

• Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Bible, Biblical, Jesus Christ

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• Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.

  Bo Burnham

  Bible, Jesus, Kindness

  Song: Haikus Sonnet Shakespeare, Album: Words Words Words, 2010

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• Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Mind Blowing, Islam

  "Anti-Obama Mail Piece: ‘We Are No Longer a Christian Nation’" by Peter Hamby, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. October 31, 2012.

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• Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?

  Barack Obama

  Children, Muslim Faith, Mind Blowing

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• judge not that ye be not judged

  John Grisham

  Bible, Jesus, Judging

  John Grisham (2004). “The Last Juror”, Doubleday Books

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• Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus Christ, Answers To Prayer, God Answers Prayers

  John Bunyan (1869). “The Select Works of John Bunyan: Containing the Pilgrim's Progress ... with a Life of the Author”, p.16

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• wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Temptation, Way, Grace Christian

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2000). “Liar's Game”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you

  Luke the Evangelist

  Bible, Jesus, Hate

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• Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Loyalty, Odds, People

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• We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

  Omar N. Bradley

  History, Atoms, Nuclear

  Speech on Armistice Day, Boston, Mass., 11 Nov. 1948

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• The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Civilization, World

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• The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teaching, Heart, Light

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• Peace, however, is not merely a gift to be received: it is also a task to be undertaken. In order to be true peacemakers, we must educate ourselves in compassion, solidarity, working together, fraternity, in being active within the community and concerned to raise awareness about national and international issues and the importance of seeking adequate mechanisms for the redistribution of wealth, the promotion of growth, cooperation for development and conflict resolution. 'Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God', as Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Blessed, Son

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• The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the sermon on the mount.  I believe the time has come to gather people together to do this.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Believe, Following Christ, People

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• Give us this day our daily mask.

  Tom Stoppard

  Bible, Prayer, Bread Of Life

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

  John Adams

  Code Of Ethics, Christianity, Founding Fathers Religion

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.229

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• Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

  Mitch Albom

  Bible, Jesus, Future

  Mitch Albom (2011). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, p.148, Hachette UK

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• The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

  John Quincy Adams

  Heaven, Treasure, Earth

  John Quincy Adams (1968). “Writings of John Quincey Adams”

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• If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jesus, Want, Messages

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian”, p.8, Seven Stories Press

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• If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our mission work is hopeless. We have no backup plan. We have nothing but Him.

  Heidi Baker

  Want, Hopeless, Missions

  Heidi Baker, Shara Pradhan (2008). “Compelled by Love”, p.159, Charisma Media

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• Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We always look for justice in this world, but there is no such thing as justice. Jesus says — Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.

  Oswald Chambers

  Teaching, Men, Giving

  "Studies in the Sermon on the Mount".

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• If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Spiritual, Desire, Development

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan”

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• I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Islands, People, Ordinary

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• Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Rich, Poor

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• I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

  Tony Campolo

  Punishment, Impossible, Sermons

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