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• There is no convenient Messiah. Salvation comes only through discipline and sacrifice.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Sacrifice, Discipline, Salvation

  Jeffrey R. Holland (1985). “However Long and Hard the Road”, Deseret Book Co

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• There could be joy in destruction, too, couldn't there? Isn't Jesus Christ's Second Coming supposed to occur only after a lot of unmitigated destruction? But again, human history is fraught with tragedies in which man spared no effort to destroy with millenarian joy, only to learn that no messiah appeared afterwards.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Jesus, Men, Effort

  Kenzaburo Oe (1998). “A Quiet Life”, p.96, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm talking from the point of view of the States, we tend to assassinate people like Jesus, or if we don't we simply marginalise them. Oprah would have all those who think they are Messiah on her show, and we'd have six people who all claimed to be the Messiah, and we'd have got rid of Jesus and laughed him out of town. So as long as the Jesus that I'm hearing is there, I don't find him very comfortable.

  John Dominic Crossan

  Jesus, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• When we're trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask is: 'Is he with the Ten Commandments or is he against them?' Then you can determine if the leader is a true messiah or another Stalin.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Leader, Trying, Determine

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• The Bundists did not wait for the Messiah, nor did they plan to leave for Palestine. They believed that Poland was their country and they fought for a just, socialist Poland, in which each nationality would have its own cultural autonomy, and in which minorities' rights would be guaranteed.

  Marek Edelman

  Country, Rights, Waiting

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• When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'

  Elie Wiesel

  Death, Yoga, Heaven

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• Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second coming of Christ, nirvana. It is not a historical prospect, but a current mythology. Socialism, by contrast, is a realizable historical system which may one day be instituted in the world.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Religious, Historical, One Day

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• Talk to strangers when the family fails and friends lead you astray when Buddha laughs and Jesus weeps and it turns out God is gay. 'Cause angels and messiahs love can come in many forms: in the hallways of your projects, or the fat girl in your dorm, and when you finally take the time to see what they’re about perhaps you find them lonely or their wisdom trips you out.

  Saul Williams

  Girl, Lonely, Jesus

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• Many even see in Obama a messiah-like figure, a great soul, and some affectionately call him Mahatma Obama.

  Dinesh Sharma

  Soul, Figures, Great Souls

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• The Satanic Jews and their Allies fear being exposed and that is the role of the Messiah, to reveal the Man of Sin. When He comes, He has to expose those forces, those wicked ones that have caused the blood shedding and the mischief that's going on in the world. So the moment they saw a Black man standing who was not afraid to tell the truth of them, given to him by the Messiah, they had to come against him. And they will continue to do that because their survival is at stake.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Men, Blood, Black

  "Farrakhan: 'I never endorsed Mr. Trump or any of the candidates'". Interview with Richard Muhammad, www.finalcall.com. March 8, 2016.

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• When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.

  Christopher Hitchens

  May, Spinoza, Woody

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.59, Basic Books

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• Music has always been a part of my spiritual seeking, from the moment that Handel's 'Messiah' gave me the experience when I was so young, and music has meant so much to me since then.

  George Ogilvie

  Spiritual, Moments, Young

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• I am a 'little messiah' walking on earth.

  Benny Hinn

  Earth, Littles, Walking

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• I finish where I began: Jesus' statement "Come and see" provides both an invitation and a promise to all people everywhere. Come to Him; see Him as King of Kings and Lord of Lords; recognize in Him the great Messiah who will come again with healing in His wings, to set His people free. He will wrap you about in the cloak of His redeeming love, and your life will be changed forever.

  Alexander B. Morrison

  Jesus, Kings, Healing

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• Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.

  Michael Chabon

  Generations, Loses, Deserve

  "The Yiddish Policemen’s Union". Book by Michael Chabon, 2007.

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• If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming

  Ahad Ha'am

  Israel, Wish, Judaism

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• The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Humor, Land

  Jerry Falwell (1980). “Listen, America!”, Doubleday Books

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• Those so-called records in the Bible were written by devout ecclesiasts who wanted to believe, and wanted others to believe, in the coming of a Messiah. Until someone proves otherwise, therefore, these stories must be considered nothing more than folk tales consisting in equal parts of legend and wish fulfillment.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Believe, Wish, Legends

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• The path marked Humility will take you to the manger of the Messiah.

  Max Lucado

  Humility, Path

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• This prophecy of a coming enlightenment is echoed in virtually every faith and philosophical tradition on Earth. Hindus call it the Krita Age, astrologers call it the Age of Aquarius, the Jews describe the coming of the Messiah, theosophists call it the New Age, cosmologists call it Harmonic Convergence and predict the actual date of December 21, 2012.

  Dan Brown

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Aquarius

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• [President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.

  Barbara Walters

  Leadership, Reality, Voting

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• He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.

  John Locke

  Christian, Doctrine, Deny

  John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: The reasonableness of Christianity. A vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity, from Mr. Edward's reflections. A second vindication”, p.232

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• Among mammals, a virgin birth (parthenogenesis) can only produce female offspring, for chromosomal reasons. Messiahs are mammals. Therefore, Jesus was... On the other hand, among turkeys, the chromosomal situation is such that all products of virgin birth are males. So if Jesus was a male, he might also have been.

  Frank Zindler

  Jesus, Hands, Turkeys

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• For many people, the big feast of the year is Christmas, but for Christians, the truly great feast is Easter. Without Easter, without the Resurrection, we would not have the gift of salvation. Jesus had to rise from the dead or else he would have just been another failed Messiah and his birth would be a forgotten footnote of history.

  Robert Barron

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

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• I was reading in the Bible and one translation says that Jesus said that if you publicly will acknowledge me before people, I will acknowledge you before my Father in heaven. So that is a big part of these meetings like Night of Hope, giving people an opportunity to publicly say, "Jesus, I believe you are the messiah, you're Christ, you're my Lord."

  Joel Osteen

  Jesus, Father, Reading

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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