Herod Quotes

• God did everything necessary to get Herod's attention. He sent messengers from the East and a message from the Torah. He sent wonders from the sky and words from Scripture. He sent the testimony of the heavens and the teaching of the prophets. But Herod refused to listen. He chose his puny dynasty over Christ. He died a miserable old man.

  Max Lucado

  Teaching, Men, Sky

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Who are we, as we stand before the child Jesus? Who are we, standing as we stand before today's children? Are we like Mary and Joseph, who welcomed Jesus and cared for him with the love of a father and a mother? Or are we like Herod, who wanted to eliminate him? Are we like the shepherds, who went in haste to kneel before him in worship and offer him their humble gifts? Or are we indifferent?

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Jesus, Children

  Pope Francis (2016). “I Believe: The Promise of the Creed”, p.49, Orbis Books

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• Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon by "the powers that be," and mobbed by the populace - or consigned ignominiously to the gallows, like him whose "soul is marching on," though his "body lies mouldering in the grave," or burnt to ashes at the stake like Wickliffe, or nailed to the cross like him who "gave himself for the world," - in defence of the RIGHT, than like Herod, having the shouts of a multitude crying, "It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!"

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Lying, Men, Voice

  "Valedictory". The last issue of "The Liberator" newspaper, fair-use.org. January 01, 1866.

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• Unconfusion submits
  its confusion to proof; it's
  not a Herod's oath that cannot change.

  Marianne Moore

  Confusion, Proof, Submit

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.135, Penguin

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• In terms of the historical record, I should also point out that there is no account in any ancient source whatsoever about King Herod slaughtering children in or around Bethlehem, or anyplace else. No other author, biblical or otherwise, mentions this event. Is it, like John's account of Jesus' death, a detail made up by Matthew in order to make some kind of theological point?

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Jesus, Kings, Children

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• This book will expose the sins of the fathers and the vicious abuse of the Jewish people. 'In Defense of Israel' will shake Christian theology. It scripturally proves that the Jewish people as a whole did not reject Jesus as Messiah. It will also prove that Jesus did not come to earth to be the Messiah. It will prove that there was a 'Calvary conspiracy' between Rome, the high priest, and Herod to execute Jesus as an insurrectionist too dangerous to live. Since Jesus refused by word and deed to claim to be the Messiah, how can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered?

  John Hagee

  Christian, Jesus, Father

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• Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic, although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, or Herod were its author.

  Martin Luther

  Work, Book, Failure

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• How can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered?

  John Hagee

  Jew, Rejecting

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• Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.

  Martin Luther

  Scripture, Christ, Masters

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• Ray Jennings was to orthodoxy what King Herod was to child-minding.

  Michael Atherton

  Kings, Children, Rays

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• Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed a census under Governor Quirinius - a local census, not one decreed by Caesar Augustus for the Empire as a whole - but it happened too late in 6 AD, long after Herod's death.

  Richard Dawkins

  Dating, Long, Religion

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• Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.

  Terry Pratchett

  Kings, Association, Management

  Terry Pratchett (1998). “The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel”, Harpercollins

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• MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Talking, Ideas, Soldier

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• It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"... ...Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist... ...she certainly did not envelop him in her love.

  Jacques Maritain

  Believe, Burning, Baptists

  Jacques Maritain (2013). “The Peasant of the Garonne: An Old Layman Questions Himself about the Present Time”, p.91, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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