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Quotes from Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts — Kirby Page

1890–1957 United States

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19 quotes

The criterion by which Jesus judges every method is this; Can it be used appropriately in the home?

Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929)

It is utterly unthinkable that Jesus would himself condemn a wrongdoer to everlasting torture.

Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929)

Can the use of physical force ever be reconciled with the family spirit?

Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929)

Jesus refers to the fact that it is customary for one generation to stone the prophets and for another to erect monuments in their honor.

Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929)

The religion of Jesus can best be described in terms of the home: God Is Father, men are brothers, all life is a domestic affair.

Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929)

The more popular a religion becomes, the less likely its adherents are to practise its highest precepts.

Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929)

The religion and the ethics of Jesus are utterly inseparable.

Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929)

It seems incredible that a man with such a message and such nobility of character should have been killed as an enemy of society. But is it surprising?

Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929)

How much less able to fathom the meaning of his words and deeds were the ecclesiastical leaders.

Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929)

Another serious charge against Jesus was that of treason to his country.

Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929)

Live to-day as if the ideal society has already come to pass. The Kingdom of God is within you. It is all about you.

Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929)

The Essenes were communists and ascetics.

Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929)

Society always issues an ultimatum to the innovator; conform to this world or expect the reward of a heretic or a traitor. Every generation metes out substantially the same punishment to those who fall far below and those who rise high above its standards.

Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929)

...Christianity, It has accumulated so many alien and hostile elements as to make it a different religion from the simple faith of its founder.

Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929)

During the lifetime of Jesus the question of freedom was the outstanding problem before the Jewish people. Political independence, economic relief, religious integrity, all awaited the Deliverer...

Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929)

As long as ministers and laymen labor under the delusion that contemporary Christianity is the same religion that Jesus practiced they will remain immunized against his way of life and will lack the vision.

Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929)

The Sadducees were the Jewish aristocracy, the official and wealthy class... railing at the wild radicals who threatened their privileges and security.

Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929)

God is Father and perfectly exemplifies the spirit of the home. ...He makes the sun shine on the evil and the good and the rain to fall upon the just and the unjust. He is forgiving and always goes out to meet the prodigal.

Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929)

The God of Jesus differs fundamentally from the Jehovah presented in many sections of the Old Testament, where Yahweh is frequently pictured as authorizing pillage and slaughter and... as... an active participant in war...

Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kirby Page (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.