Christ Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.”

John Milton

Nativity, Christ, Redemption, Virgin Birth, Christianity

2. “The Vision of Christ that thou dost see, Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine is the Friend of all Mankind, Mine speaks in Parables to the blind. Thine loves the same world that mine hates, Thy heaven-doors are my hell gates.”

William Blake

Vision, Christ, Contrast, Philosophical Dialogue, Spiritual Perspective, Poetic Opposition

3. “The Our Father is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.”

Simone Weil

Our Father, Prayer, Christ, Humanity, Spiritual Symbol, Divine Connection

4. “Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.”

Simone Weil

Crucifixion, Envy, Christ, Sin, Spiritual Reflection, Religious Sentiment

5. “Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.”

William Butler Yeats

Crucifixion Reflection, Failed Ideals, Eternal Struggle, Blood, Christ, Tolerance

6. “Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.”

George Bernard Shaw

Sacrificial Themes, Imagination And Salvation, Religious Commentary, Christ, Imagination, Torment

7. “If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Faith, Truth, Religion, Christ, Belief, Morality