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There is no convenient Messiah. Salvation comes only through discipline and sacrifice.

Jeffrey R. Holland

Sacrifice, Discipline, Salvation

Jeffrey R. Holland (1985). “However Long and Hard the Road”, Deseret Book Co

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Talk to strangers when the family fails and friends lead you astray when Buddha laughs and Jesus weeps and it turns out God is gay. 'Cause angels and messiahs love can come in many forms: in the hallways of your projects, or the fat girl in your dorm, and when you finally take the time to see what they’re about perhaps you find them lonely or their wisdom trips you out.

Saul Williams

Girl, Lonely, Jesus

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I'm talking from the point of view of the States, we tend to assassinate people like Jesus, or if we don't we simply marginalise them. Oprah would have all those who think they are Messiah on her show, and we'd have six people who all claimed to be the Messiah, and we'd have got rid of Jesus and laughed him out of town. So as long as the Jesus that I'm hearing is there, I don't find him very comfortable.

John Dominic Crossan

Jesus, Thinking, Views

Source: www.abc.net.au

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When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'

Elie Wiesel

Death, Yoga, Heaven

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Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second coming of Christ, nirvana. It is not a historical prospect, but a current mythology. Socialism, by contrast, is a realizable historical system which may one day be instituted in the world.

Immanuel Wallerstein

Religious, Historical, One Day

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When we're trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask is: 'Is he with the Ten Commandments or is he against them?' Then you can determine if the leader is a true messiah or another Stalin.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Leader, Trying, Determine

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There could be joy in destruction, too, couldn't there? Isn't Jesus Christ's Second Coming supposed to occur only after a lot of unmitigated destruction? But again, human history is fraught with tragedies in which man spared no effort to destroy with millenarian joy, only to learn that no messiah appeared afterwards.

Kenzaburo Oe

Jesus, Men, Effort

Kenzaburo Oe (1998). “A Quiet Life”, p.96, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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The Bundists did not wait for the Messiah, nor did they plan to leave for Palestine. They believed that Poland was their country and they fought for a just, socialist Poland, in which each nationality would have its own cultural autonomy, and in which minorities' rights would be guaranteed.

Marek Edelman

Country, Rights, Waiting

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I don't think that John Kerry is the Messiah or the Democratic Party is the answer, but I don't like the evangelical community blessing the Republican Party as some kind of God-ordained instrument for solving the world's problems.

Tony Campolo

Party, Blessing, Thinking

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I was reading in the Bible and one translation says that Jesus said that if you publicly will acknowledge me before people, I will acknowledge you before my Father in heaven. So that is a big part of these meetings like Night of Hope, giving people an opportunity to publicly say, "Jesus, I believe you are the messiah, you're Christ, you're my Lord."

Joel Osteen

Jesus, Father, Reading

Source: www.christianpost.com

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For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.

Christopher Moore

Loyalty, Responsibility, Sacrifice

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Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.

Michael Chabon

Generations, Loses, Deserve

"The Yiddish Policemen’s Union". Book by Michael Chabon, 2007.

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Music has always been a part of my spiritual seeking, from the moment that Handel's 'Messiah' gave me the experience when I was so young, and music has meant so much to me since then.

George Ogilvie

Spiritual, Moments, Young

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When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.

Christopher Hitchens

May, Spinoza, Woody

Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.59, Basic Books

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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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Jesus did not come to be the Messiah

John Hagee

Jesus

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Many even see in Obama a messiah-like figure, a great soul, and some affectionately call him Mahatma Obama.

Dinesh Sharma

Soul, Figures, Great Souls

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This prophecy of a coming enlightenment is echoed in virtually every faith and philosophical tradition on Earth. Hindus call it the Krita Age, astrologers call it the Age of Aquarius, the Jews describe the coming of the Messiah, theosophists call it the New Age, cosmologists call it Harmonic Convergence and predict the actual date of December 21, 2012.

Dan Brown

Inspirational, Philosophical, Aquarius

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[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.

Barbara Walters

Leadership, Reality, Voting

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For many people, the big feast of the year is Christmas, but for Christians, the truly great feast is Easter. Without Easter, without the Resurrection, we would not have the gift of salvation. Jesus had to rise from the dead or else he would have just been another failed Messiah and his birth would be a forgotten footnote of history.

Robert Barron

Christian, Jesus, Easter

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To be more successful, learn to distinguish between the truly unimportant and the truly important. Eventually you will be considered not only a genius, but a messiah as well.

Ernie J Zelinski

Inspirational, Successful, Important

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Pat Robertson has written in a book a few years ago that we should have a world government, but only when the Messiah arrives. He wrote, literally, any attempt to achieve world order before that time must be the work of the Devil. Well join me - I’m glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan.

Walter Cronkite

Book, World Government, Hands

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He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.

John Locke

Christian, Doctrine, Deny

John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: The reasonableness of Christianity. A vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity, from Mr. Edward's reflections. A second vindication”, p.232

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I keep hearing in my head "you are the Messiah, you are the Messiah." I think there's something wrong with my headphones.

Russell Brand

Thinking, Hearing, Headphones

BBC Radio 2 Show, June 30, 2007.

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We must not look for some kind of Messiah.

Neil Kinnock

Looks, Kind

"The Making of Neil Kinnock". Book by Robert Harris, 1984.

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