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And Jesus said unto them, "And whom do you say that I am?" They replied, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our being, the ontological foundation of the context of our very selfhood revealed." And Jesus replied,"What?"

Jesus came into the world to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable

What good is having someone who can walk on water if you don't follow in his footsteps?

Jesus has also been accused of being ineffective, in a political sense, and of having done little to right social injustices. But it is clear from the Sermon on the Mount that he was deeply concerned that his disciples should be both the "salt" and the "light" of secular society; he endorsed the authority of those Old Testament prophets who vehemently rebuked social injustice; and he consistently identified himself with the poor and weak, with social outcasts and those who were regarded as morally disreputable... It is true that he did not lead a rebellion against Rome, seek to free slaves, or introduce a social revolution. He had come for a particular purpose, which was far more important than any of these things -- and from that purpose nothing could or did deflect him.
J. N. D. Anderson, Christianity: the Witness of History

Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song of gladness in the heart.... Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153) Sermon 15 on the Canticle of Canticles

Jesus never married. So, should we not marry also? Jesus never used an electric appliance; never endorsed any medical procedure; never worked to save a troubled marriage. He never endorsed community volunteerism [i.e., Boy Scouts, Red Cross, United Way, etc.]; never owned a car; never went to college; never addressed juvenile delinquency or civil rights; never healed a case of alcoholism/alzheimer's/crib death/down's syndrome/drug abuse. Jesus never took time out for a hobby; never addressed professional burnout; never endorsed the ideals of saving money, of planning for retirement, of democracy. Do we REALLY want to "do as Jesus did" in these matters? His life was perfect in those areas that his life and words directly addressed. - William D Blake

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.-- Phillips Brooks

Jesus had a very bad habit of refusing to fit into anyone's paradigms.He learned a lot from the Pharisees, but He wasn't one of them. He may have hung out with the Essenes, but He was not a compulsive hand-washer. He was surely a Jew, steeped in the Torah, but He put a very different spin on it. He was charming and even witty and told wonderful stories, but He refused to be a celebrity. He dealt politely with those in authority, but did not sign on with them. Half the time He reassured people and the other half of the time He scared them. He told all the old stories but with new and disconcerting endings. He was patently a troublemaker. Which was why they had to get rid of Him. "It's been that way ever since. Everyone claims Him for their own. He's on our side. He's doing things our way. He confirms what we say. Then when we think we've sewed Him up, He's not there anymore. When we have domesticated Jesus, we may have a very interesting person on our hands, even a superstar maybe. Alas, it is not the real Jesus. He's gone somewhere else, preaching His contradictions about His Father's kingdom and stirring up His kind of trouble. A Jesus who does not disconcert and shake us up is not Jesus at all. -- the "little bishop", character, Andrew M. Greeley, _Irish Stew!_

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would be a lunatic - on a level with a man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the devil of Hell. You must make a choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at this feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to . C.S LEWIS, Mere Christianity

What will you do with Jesus,
Neutral you can not be,
One day your heart will be asking,
What will He do with me.
C. S. LEWIS

Lord Jesus, you are my righteousness, I am your sin. You have taken upon yourself what is mine and given me what is yours. You have become what you were not so that I might become what I was not. MARTIN LUTHER

He feared nothing for Himself; and never once employed His divine power to save Himself from His human fate. Let God do that for Him if He saw fit. He did not come into the world to take care of Himself... His life was of no value to Him but as His Father cared for it. God would mind all that was necessary for Him, and He would mind the work His Father had given Him to do. And, my friends, this is just the one secret of a blessed life, the one thing every man comes into this world to learn. ... George Macdonald, Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood [1866]

You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.-- Robert Murray McCheyne. letter: 9 Mar 1843.

Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus. -Neal A. Maxwell

There is power here (in Jesus) but there is no violence. There is authority, but it is the authority of one who has taken upon himself the form of a servant.
Stephen Neill in The Lion Christian Quotation Collection, 1997

And the demon cried out in a loud voice, "What have you to do with us, O Jesus of Nazareth? I know who you are, the Holy One of God!"
And Jesus answered him, saying, "Relax. I've come to celebrate our diversity. --Richard John Neuhaus,

Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except through Jesus Christ. Blaise Pascal, Les Pensees

Jesus Christ is the center of everything, and the object of everything, and he that does not know Him knows nothing of nature and nothing of himself.
BLAISE PASCAL

Do you not find yourselves forgetful of Jesus? Some creature steals away your heart, and you are unmindful of him upon whom your affection ought to be set. Some earthly business engrosses your attention when you should have your eye steadily fixed upon the cross. It is the incessant round of world, world, world; the constant din of earth, earth, earth, that takes away the soul from Christ. Oh! my friends, is it not too sadly true that we can recollect anything but Christ, and forget nothing so easy as him whom we ought to remember? While memory will preserve a poisoned weed, it suffereth the Rose of Sharon to wither. -- C.H. Spurgeon

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him, - C. T. Studd

I'm sure you've noticed that Jesus came into a world that was dominated by an oppressive government, saturated with slavery, and disadvantaged economically for much of the population. Yet, He did not seek to alter man's political, social or economic status. Why not? Simply put, the externals in life will never change much. It is forever true that one "born of woman is of few days and full of trouble" (Job 14:1). Jesus told the truth when He noted, "the poor you have with you always" (John 12:8). So He came to change what was in the hearts of men and women. ~Don Truex, Did Jesus Come to Solve Poverty?

I know Thee, Saviour, Who Thou art:
Jesus, the feeble sinner's friend!
Nor wilt Thou with the night depart,
But stay and love me to the end.
Thy mercies never shall remove;
Thy nature and Thy name is Love.
Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
JESUS, the infinite I AM,
With God essentially the same,
With him enthroned above all height,
As God of God, and Light of Light,
Thou art by thy great Father known,
From all eternity his Son.

Thou only dost the Father know,
And wilt to all thy followers show,
Who cannot doubt thy gracious will
His glorious Godhead to reveal;
Reveal him now, if thou art he,
And live, eternal Life, in me.
Charles Wesley (1707-1788)

He was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again. --George Whitefield, letter 21 May 1740