The famous painting of The Death of Socrates by David ..., if set aside as a crucifixion picture, brings out a way in which Socrat...es' death was quite unlike that of Christ. While his disciples are in agonies of grief, Socrates himself remains calm and poised; his philosophy has saved him from pain and passion. Christ, on the contrary, dies after hours of torment and doubt. Socrates imperturbably takes the cup of hemlock: Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane cries out, "Take this cup from me."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, & being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: "the ...Son, O how unlike the Father!" First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What if this present were the world's last night? Mark in my heart, O Soul, where thou dost dwell,... The picture of Christ crucified, and tell Whether that countenance can thee affright,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to main...tain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What I ask of American Christianity is not to show us more creeds, but more of Christ; not more rites and ceremonies, but more rel...igion glowing with love and replete with life,--religion which will be to all weaker races an uplifting power, and not a degrading influence. Jesus Christ has given us a platform of life and duty from which all oppression and selfishness is necessarily excluded. While politicians may stumble on the barren mountains of fretful controversy and ask in strange bewilderment, "What shall we do with the weaker races?" I hold that Jesus Christ answered that question nearly two thousand years since. "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even so to them."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity ...expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pilate with his question "What is truth?" is gladly trotted out these days as an advocate of Christ, so as to arouse the suspicion... that everything known and knowable is an illusion and to erect the cross upon that gruesome background of the impossibility of knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »