Jesus Christ
First-century Jewish teacher, healer, and itinerant rabbi from Galilee whose teachings — recorded in the four canonical Gospels and a handful of non-canonical sources — became the founding texts of Christianity, the largest religious movement in human history. Born around 4 BCE in the Roman client kingdom of Judea, executed by crucifixion in Jerusalem under the prefect Pontius Pilate around 30-33 CE, Jesus's three-year teaching ministry centered on the in-breaking 'kingdom of God' — a present and coming reality marked by mercy for the broken, reversal of social hierarchies, radical love (including love of enemies), forgiveness, and direct, intimate relationship with God as 'Abba' (Father). The Sermon on the Mount, the parables (the Prodigal Son, the Good Samaritan, the Mustard Seed), and the cross-and-resurrection narrative form the core of his recorded teaching. Beyond Christianity, Jesus is venerated as a major prophet in Islam, a wisdom teacher across virtually every contemplative tradition, and the most-quoted figure in the history of human language.
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Quotes by Jesus Christ
129 quotes“When you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen.”
“And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.”
“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”
“Give us this day our daily bread.”
“And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.”
“For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.”
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.”
“But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.”
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light.”
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life.”
“Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.”
“Are you not of more value than they?”
“Which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?”
“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin.”
“Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is its own evil.”
“Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”
“The kingdom of heaven is within you.”
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