Sermon On The Mount Quotes by Luke the Evangelist, Mahatma Gandhi, Stanley Hauerwas, John Adams, Frederick Scott Oliver, Oscar Romero and many others.
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
The Sermon on the Mount…went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia’ and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.
Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion. . . . Far from it. I see in every page something to recommend Christianity in its purity, and something to discredit its corruptions. . . . The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.
No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.
Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.
Ask and it shall be given you; Seek and ye shall find; Knock and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh, receiveth; And he that seeketh, Findeth; and to him that knocketh It shall be opened. Aspire not to have more, but to be more.
Honestly, I would think I would go way back to Biblical times and be one of the guys who saw Jesus Sermon on the Mount. It would be so cool to see what he was really like in person.
If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.
Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation
I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.
Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
Matthew is the only gospel that uses the Sermon on the Mount, for example, because that’s the new Moses making a new interpretation of the law on a new mountain. So then you begin to put all these things together, and I don’t know how you can make sense out of that book if you don’t know the Jewish background.
The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the sermon on the mount.В I believe the time has come to gather people together to do this.
