Jesus Called Christ

Famous quotes containing the words jesus, called and/or christ:

    What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.
    Bible: New Testament, Mark 1:24.

    Man with an unclean spirit.

    Great is my envy of death whose curt hard sword
    Carried her whom I called my life away;
    Me he disdains, and mocks me from her eyes!
    Petrarch (1304–1374)

    One story recounts that a Tennessean, after a single day in the then almost impenetrable tangle of cypress, briars, and canebreaks, pestered by myriads of mosquitoes, and bogged in the heavy gumbo mud, declared: “Arkansas is not part of the world for which Jesus Christ died—I want none of it.”
    —Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)