Who is Jesus, anyway?

Who is Jesus?

“ He is the Way. Follow Him through the Land of Unlikeness; You will see rare beasts, and have unique adventures.” W.H. Auden

“God-With-Us. Not the God -Up- There somewhere who answers our prayers by lifting us out of our lives, but the God who comes to us in the midst of them-however far from home we are-however much or little our lives relfects the Christmas cards we send.” Barbara Brown Taylor.

“God ...became human Himself; was born into the world as an actual man...If you want to get the hang of it, think of how you would like to become a slug or a crab.” C.S. Lewis

“Through Christ we see as in a mirror the spotless and excellent face of God.” Clement of Rome

“For Jesus, broken bodies and empty bellies are the antitheses of God’s reign; he embodies God’s rule through healing broken bodies, filling empty bellies and conducting himself in such a way that he is called a winebibber and a glutton.” Theodore Jennings

“ Jesus came to reunite, to heal , to form bonds, to reconcile.” Henri Nouwen

“ This man-God Jesus was a good storyteller. He knew what he was doing.” Lois Cheney

“ Happiness consists in finding out precisely what the ‘one thing necessary’ may be in our lives, and in gladly relinquishing all the rest. For then, by a divine paradox, we find that everything else is given us together with the one thing needed.” Thomas Merton

“I'm a Muslim, but do you think Jesus would love me? I think Jesus would have a drink with me and discuss why are you acting like that? Now, he would be cool. He would talk to me. No Christian ever did that and said in the name of Jesus even. They'd throw me in jail and write bad articles about me and then go to church on Sunday and say Jesus is a wonderful man and he's coming back to save us. But they don't understand that when he comes back, that these crazy greedy capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.” Mike Tyson

“But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus” Henry Louis Mencken

“Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives” Blaise Pascal

“There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus” Blaise Pascal

“Jesus, like any good fisherman, first catches the fish; then He cleans them” Mark Potter

“The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus” John Piper

“Jesus is just a word I use to swear with” Richard Harris

Who is Jesus to you?