Messiah Quotes - Page 8

• There's no messiahs out here, baby, but I found the holy grail alright. Cause I'm lying in your arms tonight.

  Marc Cohn

  Religious, Baby, Lying

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• I've always wondered what it would be like if the Messiah, or Christ Returned, were actually alive and living in our society; who would that person be, how we would identify them, how would they live and what would they believe in, how would society react to them? I decided to try and tell my idea of that story.

  James Frey

  Believe, Ideas, Trying

  "James Frey's Religious Awakening" by Rebecca Dana, www.imdb.com. April 19, 2011.

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• Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Infancy Is, Paradise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.46, Library of America

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• In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude; Daguerre was his messiah.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wise, Art, Prayer

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• . I suppose we could ask the same question of Jesus. God sent Him to be the Messiah of Israel and King of Israel; why did He fail the first time around and get crucified?"

  Pat Robertson

  Jesus, Kings, Israel

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• The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.

  Dave Brubeck

  Radio, Hearing, Firsts

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• The titles of Jesus (son of God, messiah, light of the world, etc.) are not found in the earliest layer of tradition and are not part of self proclamation of Jesus. This does not make them wrong. Rather, they are the voice of the community, statements about what people around Jesus thought of him.

  Marcus Borg

  Jesus, Son, Light

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