Jesus Quotes

“The salvation of the world, like all acts of God, is a mystery overflowing with profound meaning that will always exceed our feeble attempts to explain it.”
― Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Jesus: The Way, the Truth, and the Life

“metanoia, which literally means a change or transformation of mind. John appears to mean by this a profound interior change of heart and mind that finds expression in concrete changes in behavior.”
― Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Jesus: The Way, the Truth, and the Life

“between God and mankind, between the divine and the human. While the sacrifice of the Cross would have a critical role to play, Fathers of the Church such as St. Irenaeus saw “at-one-ment” as having begun even before the Cross, in the very act of the Son of God uniting himself to human nature in the womb of Mary.”
― Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Jesus: The Way, the Truth, and the Life

“Faith gives us a kind of sight that perceives what our physical eyes cannot see.”
― Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Jesus: The Way, the Truth, and the Life

“Jesus is the new Temple, the place to meet God and experience forgiveness and mercy.”
― Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Jesus: The Way, the Truth, and the Life

“The renewed, regathered Israel, the true Israel of the final age, will have marked boundaries that clearly distinguish those inside from those outside. But those markers will not be circumcision, physical ancestry, and dietary laws. They will be mercy, forgiveness, and faith.”
― Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Jesus: The Way, the Truth, and the Life

“no, the prohibition of that particular fruit was intended to shield his beloved from just such horrors. Sin injures others, but no one is more grievously damaged by sin than the sinner himself.”
― Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Jesus: The Way, the Truth, and the Life

“Only Jesus, the Son in a unique and incomparable sense, could dare to address God in this way. But he is now teaching his disciples to address God in the same way, thereby giving them a share in his very special relationship with God. He is inviting them to share in his sonship.”
― Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Jesus: The Way, the Truth, and the Life