What Jesus Meant Quotes

“Nothing stuns others more than the quiet eruption of a normally quiet man.”
― Garry Wills, What Jesus Meant

“He walks through social barriers and taboos as if they were cobwebs.”
― Garry Wills, What Jesus Meant

“People are instinctively drawn to Jesus certain that he understands suffering, their particular suffering, that he sees it in their eyes even before they speak. God's chosen are the suffering ones, whose inner luminescence is emphasized by the fragility of its container.”
― Garry Wills, What Jesus Meant

“...one of the main lessons is that people should not be separated into classes of the clean and the unclean, the worthy and the unworthy, the respectable and the unrespectable. … (missing) the point of their union with the Father, whose love is undiscriminating and inclusive, not gradated and excessive.”
― Garry Wills, What Jesus Meant

“It was the pride and ostentation of power the Jesus rebuked in spiritual leaders.”
― Garry Wills, What Jesus Meant

“Love is the test. In the gospel of Jesus, love is everything.”
― Garry Wills, What Jesus Meant

“What is the kind of religion Jesus opposed? Any religion that is proud of its virtue, like the boastful Pharisee. Any that is self-righteous, quick to judge and condemn, ready to impose burdens rather than share or lift them. Any that exalts its own officers, proud of its trappings, building expensive monuments to itself. Any that neglects the poor and cultivates the rich, any that scorns outcasts and flatters the rulers of this world. If that sounds like just about every form of religion we know, then we can see how far off from religion Jesus stood.”
― Garry Wills, What Jesus Meant