The Life of Jesus Christ Quotes

“These are the things that gave [Jesus] such faith and fearlessness in His work. He knew that the call to do it had come from God, and He knew that He was immortal until it was done.

This was what made Him, with all His self-consciousness and originality, the pattern of meekness and submission, for He was forever bringing every thought and wish into obedience to His Father’s will.

This was the secret of the peace and majestic calmness that imparted such a stateliness to His demeanour in the most difficult hours of life. He knew that the worst that could happen to Him was His Father’s will for Him, and that was enough.”
― James Stalker, The Life of Jesus Christ: A Biographical Overview of the Life of Christ

“It is a forgotten truth that the manhood of Jesus was from first to last dependent on the Holy Ghost.

We are apt to imagine that its connection with His divine nature rendered this unnecessary. On the contrary, it made it far more necessary, for in order to be the organ of His divine nature, His human nature had both to be endowed with the highest gifts and constantly sustained in their exercise. We are in the habit of attributing the wisdom and grace of His words, His supernatural knowledge of even the thoughts of men, and the miracles He performed, to His divine nature. But in the Gospels they are constantly attributed to the Holy Ghost.

This does not mean that they were independent of His divine nature, but that in them His human nature was enabled to be the organ of His divine nature by a peculiar gift of the Holy Ghost. This gift was given Him at His baptism.”
― James Stalker, The Life of Jesus Christ: A Biographical Overview of the Life of Christ

“Pilate had perfected the political art of compromise.”
― James Stalker, The Life of Jesus Christ: A Biographical Overview of the Life of Christ

“If a man turns his back on Christ when He speaks, the hour will come when he will ask and receive no answer.”
― James Stalker, The Life of Jesus Christ: A Biographical Overview of the Life of Christ

“[Pilate] washed his hands when he should have exerted them.”
― James Stalker, The Life of Jesus Christ: A Biographical Overview of the Life of Christ

“The preaching of Jesus shows how deeply He had drunk the essence of natural beauty and reveled in the changing aspects of the seasons. It was when wandering in these fields as a lad that He gathered the images of beauty that He poured out in His parables and addresses. It was on that hill that He acquired the habit of retreating to the mountaintops to spend the night in solitary prayer. The doctrines of His preaching were not thought out on the spur of the moment – they were poured out in a living stream when the occasion came – but the water had been gathered into the hidden well for many years before. In the fields and on the mountainside, He had thought them out during the years of happy and undisturbed meditation and prayer.”
― James Stalker, The Life of Jesus Christ: A Biographical Overview of the Life of Christ