"Come with me and I will make a new kind of fisherman out of you. I'll show you how to catch men and women instead of perch and bass."
“Who needs a doctor: the healthy or the sick? I’m here inviting the sin-sick, not the spiritually-fit.”
“Listen to this carefully. I’m warning you. There’s nothing done or said that can’t be forgiven.”
“Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity. Stinginess impoverishes.”
Jesus said to her, “Daughter, you took a risk of faith, and now you’re healed and whole. Live well, live blessed!”
“Don’t think you need a lot of extra equipment for this. You are the equipment.”
He took the five loaves and two fish, lifted his face to heaven in prayer, blessed, broke, and gave the bread... They all ate their fill... More than five thousand were at the supper.
Jesus said: “It’s what comes out of a person that pollutes”
He then asked, “And you — what are you saying about me? Who am I?”
No sooner were the words out of his mouth than the father cried, “Then I believe. Help me with my doubts!”
Jesus: “came to serve, not to be served—and then to give away his life in ex- change for many held hostage.”
“If you have anything against someone, forgive —only then will your heavenly Father be inclined to also wipe your slate clean of sins.”
Jesus said, “The first in importance is, ‘Listen, Israel:The Lord your God is one; so love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy.’ And here is the second: ‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’ There is no other commandment that ranks with these.”
“Stay with it—that’s what is required. Stay with it to the end. You won’t be sorry; you’ll be saved.”
“Time’s up. The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of sinners. Get up. Let’s get going. My betrayer has arrived.”
At three o’clock, Jesus groaned out of the depths, crying loudly, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”
“Don’t be afraid. I know you’re looking for Jesus theNazarene, the One they nailed on the cross. He’s been raised up; he’s here no longer. You can see for yourselves that the place is empty.”