Sermon On The Mount Quotes - Page 3

• ... some people cannot bear the truth, no matter how tactfully it is told. No doubt the haughty, the tyrannical, the unmerciful, the impure and the fomentors of discord take a fierce exception to the Sermon on the Mount.

  Mary Church Terrell

  People, Doubt, Matter

  Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

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• In the New Testament, Thomas Jefferson cut out everything that was mystical, magical, miracle - physically with scissors - and then pasted in all that remained, such as Jesus's Sermon on the Mount.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Jesus, Cutting, Miracle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Where possible Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had to rely on Paul, we should not know that Jesus taught in parables, had delivered the sermon on the mount, and had taught His disciples the 'Our Father.' Even where they are specially relevant, Paul passes over the words of the Lord.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Jesus, Father, Teaching

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• If we do what Allah (God) has asked us to do - to unite on the basis of truth, to reform our lives, to civilize ourselves and others, and to form a nation for His glory - and we are attacked by the government and maligned and evil spoken of, that is exactly why Jesus in his Sermon on the Mount said, "Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evil against you falsely for My namesake."

  Louis Farrakhan

  Jesus, Blessed, Men

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.

  Frederick Scott Oliver

  Country, Political, Principles

  Frederick Scott Oliver (1934). “Politics and politicians”

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• Powers Hapgood had just come from court because there was some kind of dust-up on a picket line. The judge was so curious about him - coming from a rich family - why he would choose to live as he had. I guess you know what his answer was ..."The Sermon on the Mount, sir." That's important.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dust, Judging, Important

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• We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.

  Arthur Keith

  Jesus, Taught, Birth

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• Matthew is the only gospel that uses the Sermon on the Mount, for example, because that's the new Moses making a new interpretation of the law on a new mountain. So then you begin to put all these things together, and I don't know how you can make sense out of that book if you don't know the Jewish background.

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Law, Together

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Poverty, Modern, Sermons

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• The Sermon on the Mount does not provide humanity with a complete guide to personal, social and economic problems. It sets forth spiritual attitudes, moral principles of universal validity, such as " Love your enemies," "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them," and it leaves to Christians the task-the admittedly difficult task-of applying them in any given situation.

  Robert McCracken

  Love, Christian, Spiritual

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• If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.

  Barack Obama

  People, Mind Blowing, Hussein

  "Obama cites Scripture to defend policy forcing schools to let boys in girls’ bathrooms" by Ben Johnson, www.lifesitenews.com. June 2, 2016.

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• Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion. . . . Far from it. I see in every page something to recommend Christianity in its purity, and something to discredit its corruptions. . . . The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

  John Adams

  Christian, Religion, Pages

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.229

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• I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Missing, Gita, Solace

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.186, Courier Corporation

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• [The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still remains as the ultimate basis ... of the belief of free men of good will everywhere.

  Hal Borland

  Christmas, Teaching, Simple

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• Honestly, I would think I would go way back to Biblical times and be one of the guys who saw Jesus Sermon on the Mount. It would be so cool to see what he was really like in person.

  Jason Dolley

  Jesus, Biblical, Thinking

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