Messiah Quotes

• The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places--to comfort the broken-hearted, but nowhere is he spoken of as a deity.

  Olympia Brown

  Broken, Comfort, Earth

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• God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the true God, is the God we see in Jesus of Nazareth, Israel's Messiah, the world's true Lord.

  N. T. Wright

  Relationship, Beauty, Faith

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• The Good News borne by our risen Messiah who chose not one race, who chose not one country, who chose not one language, who chose not one tribe, who chose all of humankind!

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Race, News

  Nelson Mandela's Speech at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference, db.nelsonmandela.org. April 3, 1994.

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• One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you a teacher?" the student persisted. "No, I am not a teacher." "Then what are you?" asked the student exasperated. "I am awake," Buddha replied.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spiritual, Teacher, Buddhist

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• If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Printing, Born, Ifs

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• Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Wine, Soul

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• If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Godly, Complexes

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.169, Harper Collins

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• The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel.

  H. G. Wells

  Special, World, Lasts

  H. G. Wells “Outline of History”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand reports of frightened and illiterate peasants who claim to have seen miracles or to have had encounters with messiahs and prophets and redeemers who were, like them, mere humans. And this is also why we will never submit to dictation from those who display a fanatical belief in certainty and revelation.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Writing, Hands

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• There is nothing more negative than the result of the critical study of the life of Jesus. The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the Kingdom of God, who founded the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth, and died to give his work its final consecration, never had any existence. He is a figure designed by rationalism, endowed with life by liberalism, and clothed by modern theology in an historical garb.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Jesus, Giving, Heaven

  Albert Schweitzer (2010). “The Quest of the Historical Jesus”, p.396, Lulu.com

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• The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.

  Ann Voskamp

  Light, Making Love, Needs

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• Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.

  Rajneesh

  Independent, Home, Treasure

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• Some of us claim that he was a messiah, and some think that he was just a man with very special powers. But that misses the point. Whatever he was, he changed the world.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Thinking, Missing

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• You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

  Richard Bach

  Spiritual, Real, Future

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• You seek problems because you need their gifts.

  Richard Bach

  Needs, Problem, Small Gifts

  1977 Illusions.

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• The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.

  Richard Bach

  Responsibility, Choices, Way

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.49, Delta

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• Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.

  Richard Bach

  Crazy, Remember Where You Came, Laughing

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple.

  Pete Townshend

  Simple, Doors, Laughing

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• If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

  Richard Bach

  Real, Character, Practice

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Change, Home

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• The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

  Richard Bach

  Limits, Sin, Originals

  Richard Bach (2007). “Messiah’s Handbook”, p.167, Jaico Publishing House

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• Everybody is given a Dream... you may have to work for it however.

  Richard Bach

  Dream, Swimming, May

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• Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Israel, Hands

  "God and the World: A Conversation with Peter Seewald". Book by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, October 06, 2000.

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• What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.

  Elias Hicks

  Jesus, Believe, Miracle

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