Messiah Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• I'm a hardened atheist but I feel that we have an inbuilt need for God. If you eradicate religion, you end up with something terrible in its place, like the communist state, as in Russia or China, where the dictator becomes the messiah figure.

  Jonathan Trigell

  Atheist, Russia, Needs

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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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 most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Christian, Jesus, Long

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• I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Leader, Ordinary

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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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• Learning is finding out what you already know.

  Richard Bach

  Education, Learning Knowledge, Doers

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.46, Delta

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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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• Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

  Richard Bach

  Relationship, Positive, Spiritual

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.110, Delta

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• Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Life, Cute

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• In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

  Richard Bach

  Happiness, Spiritual, Sacrifice

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

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  Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Friendship, Sports

  "Friendships: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases". Icon Group International, Incorporated, Page 14, November 26, 2008.

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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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• 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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• Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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

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• Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.

  Richard Bach

  Determination, Acceptance, Persistence

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.44, Delta

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• Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Life, Self Esteem

  "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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• The simplest questions are the most difficult.

  William S. Burroughs

  Discovery, Finding Yourself, Answers

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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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• Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

  Richard Bach

  Certain, Turns, Illusions Of Life

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.51, Delta

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• Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Friendship, Best Friend

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

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