The Messiah Quotes

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There will never be another Black Messiah unless we create him

Jesus not only understood Himself to be the promised Messiah, He also says and does things throughout the Gospels that make it clear He understood Himself to be God incarnate.

Jesus did not come to be the Messiah

A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.

If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming

The Good News borne by our risen Messiah who chose not one race, who chose not one country, who chose not one language, who chose not one tribe, who chose all of humankind!

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

Jesus Messiah, name above all names, blessed Redeemer, Emmanuel, the rescue for sinners, the ransom from Heaven, Jesus Messiah, Lord of all.

I keep hearing in my head "you are the Messiah, you are the Messiah." I think there's something wrong with my headphones.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.

My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him.

I am a 'little messiah' walking on earth.

If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus.

When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.

Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.

The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

Music has always been a part of my spiritual seeking, from the moment that Handel's 'Messiah' gave me the experience when I was so young, and music has meant so much to me since then.

The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.

Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.

There is no convenient Messiah. Salvation comes only through discipline and sacrifice.

Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.

There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah.

And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.

As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed.

One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.

The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

If you give your mess to the Messiah, He can turn it into a message.

The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.

[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.

To be more successful, learn to distinguish between the truly unimportant and the truly important. Eventually you will be considered not only a genius, but a messiah as well.

There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be the Messiah.

Jesus did not ask us to believe that he was the messiah. He certainly never suggested that he was the second person of the trinity. In fact, he rarely referred to himself at all.

Many even see in Obama a messiah-like figure, a great soul, and some affectionately call him Mahatma Obama.

Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.

Any religion whose messiah’s name isn’t recognized by Microsoft Word can’t be that much of a threat.

For every second of time was the strait gate through which the Messiah might enter.

Every Messiah fails, the moment he tries to redeem himself.

The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you.

. I suppose we could ask the same question of Jesus. God sent Him to be the Messiah of Israel and King of Israel; why did He fail the first time around and get crucified?"

We must not look for some kind of Messiah.

Some of us claim that he was a messiah, and some think that he was just a man with very special powers. But that misses the point. Whatever he was, he changed the world.

The path marked Humility will take you to the manger of the Messiah.

Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.

The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior.

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary, he will come only one day after his arrival, he will not come on the last day, but on the last day of all.

No authentic Messiah would inspire a religion that ended up calling upon the Jews to reject the manifest meaning of Sinai. It is really that simple.