Preexistent Jesus Quotes & Sayings

If you can't trust anyone, then you can trust no one. — Rick Yancey

The transformation of the Nazarean into a divine, preexistent, literal son of God whose death and resurrection launch a new genus of eternal beings responsible for judging the world has no basis in any writings about Jesus that are even remotely contemporary with Paul's (a firm indication that Paul's Christ was likely his own creation). — Reza Aslan

The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future. — Janine Benyus

In human affairs, we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged, we keep in order, what has gone amiss we improve or change, what we cannot change and improve we bear, overcoming all trouble and sustaining all by prayer. Against such forces there is no help but prayer. — Martin Luther

Our motto must continue to be perseverance. And ultimately I trust the Almighty will crown our efforts with success. — William Wilberforce

...if justice cannot be made to operate under the worst possible conditions of social hysteria, what does it matter how it operates at other times? — E.L. Doctorow

But only a fool sails into combat with nature — Robert Harris

I plan to die at my desk. — Don Hewitt

We know from Philo there was already a Jewish tradition of a preexistent being named Jesus who was the Form of God (Element 40). It cannot be claimed Philo came up with this notion on his own, since that would entail a wildly improbable coincidence. So we surely are looking at a derivation from an earlier Divine Logos doctrine. Then we're told this Jesus did not try to seize power from God in heaven (as by some accounts Satan had once done, resulting in his fall to the lower realms), but instead divested himself of all his power and higher being, enslaving himself (either to God's plan or the world of flesh) by 'being made' [genomenos] in the 'likeness' of men (not literally becoming a man, but assuming a human body, and thus wearing human 'flesh'). — Richard C. Carrier

Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified. — David Gross

Claire: So we do nothing?
Michael: We do the best nothing you've ever seen. — Rachel Caine

Invest in yourself. It's like being a boxer, you've got to be in training so that when the bell rings, you get your direction you come out of the corner and you're *ready*. Do not let the audition be the first thing you've done in six months. — Karl Urban