Tony Jones QUOTES

1 " There are two ways,” he told me, “and they are love and not love. I choose love. "

2 " What the Didache doesn’t say is that the community should shun or excommunicate those who commit the forbidden sins. In fact, “correct some, pray for others, and some you should love more than your own life” makes plain that the worst sinners should be showered with the most love. "

― Tony Jones

3 " One of our group said that a lot of people in church spend a lot of time correcting each other these days, but in order to correct another person in love, you really have to know that person. Only then, she told us, can you practice the kind of community that the Didache teaches. "

― Tony Jones

4 " an unknown and forgotten treasure of the earliest Christians, a manual for living used by the generation of Jesus followers immediately after the apostles. "

― Tony Jones

5 " Triumph in the face of adversity "

― Tony Jones

6 " God’s power, it turns out, comes in God’s willingness to abdicate power. God saves the world through submission to the point of solidarity with human weakness. Jesus’ final teaching to his disciples was to wash their feet and then tell them to go and do likewise, to act as servants to the world. Too often, Christians have done just the opposite. "

― Tony Jones , Did God Kill Jesus?: Searching for Love in History’s Most Famous Execution

7 " Paul famously wrote, “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.”5 How often do we measure Christian ideas and beliefs by these criteria? "

― Tony Jones , Did God Kill Jesus?: Searching for Love in History’s Most Famous Execution

8 " To whom should we listen? The loudest voices? The most educated? The formerly marginalized? The formerly powerful? Those with the most retweets? Those who have traditionally spoken for God are now looked at askance by many people, and with good reason. Too often they’ve used their Christian platform for political and military gain. They’ve forgotten that the story of God, exemplified in Jesus, is an abdication of power. It’s a story of self-limitation and humility. It’s a story lived in solidarity with those at the margins. To whom should we listen? To Jesus on the cross. "

― Tony Jones , Did God Kill Jesus?: Searching for Love in History’s Most Famous Execution

9 " Contrary to popular belief, they were not carnival acts meant to wow the crowds and convince everyone of his divinity—if that were the case, the miracles failed miserably, since none of Jesus’ followers seemed to consider him a divine being until after his resurrection. "

― Tony Jones , A Holy Week Reader

10 " the crucifixion of Jesus, while violent, must be the key to ending violence. "

― Tony Jones , A Holy Week Reader

11 " No matter the reason, the people didn’t turn on Jesus because they were Jews. They turned on Jesus because they were human. "

― Tony Jones , Did God Kill Jesus?: Searching for Love in History’s Most Famous Execution

12 " Research shows that those who believe in a wrathful God are more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety disorders than those who believe in a loving, merciful God. "

― Tony Jones , Did God Kill Jesus?: Searching for Love in History’s Most Famous Execution

13 " One hundred years ago my great-grandfather thought women shouldn't vote. He was absolutely certain about that, and I'm absolute certain he was wrong. Two hundred years ago my great-great-great=great grandfather believed that white men should own black men. He was absolutely certain about that, and I am certain that he was wrong. I'm humble because I don't know what I'm wrong about today. I'll speak with confidence and I'll speak with passion, but I won't speak with certainty. "

― Tony Jones , The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier

14 " the Bible is the second most important revelation of God to humanity. The most important revelation of God is Jesus himself. "

― Tony Jones , Did God Kill Jesus?: Searching for Love in History’s Most Famous Execution

15 " God is one with the powerless, one with the hopeless, one with the broken. And we know this because of Jesus. Jesus is the most fully realized revelation of God that we’ve got, and what we can see of God in the life of Jesus is the perfect example of self-limitation and humility. "

― Tony Jones , Did God Kill Jesus?: Searching for Love in History’s Most Famous Execution

16 " on the cross, just moments before his death, Jesus cries out in anguish and dereliction, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” That is the pivot point of all cosmic history, for in that moment God became fully human. Only when God felt abandoned, alone in the universe, did God gain total empathy with the human condition. "

― Tony Jones , Did God Kill Jesus?: Searching for Love in History’s Most Famous Execution

17 " To our question Who killed Jesus? the answer too often has been The Jews! The unconscionable anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism promulgated by this verse started in the early church and runs through the Crusades and Hitler to white supremacy in our own day. "

― Tony Jones , Did God Kill Jesus?: Searching for Love in History’s Most Famous Execution

18 " In other words, God’s love is not a characteristic of God. For example, maybe you’ve heard someone say, “Sure, God is loving, but his love is balanced with his justice.” Or, “Without justice, love is not possible.” These statements talk of God’s love as an attribute of God. But, for Eastern Christians, God’s very nature is love. It’s not an aspect of God’s being, it is God’s very being. "

― Tony Jones , A Better Atonement: Beyond the Depraved Doctrine of Original Sin

19 " If we can fight the tendency to let it become so familiar that we don’t notice it, we can be challenged every week to remember that God doesn’t want our bloody victories and that sacrifice doesn’t really overcome our rivalries. At least for Christians, that crucifix should be the emblem of the end of violence. "

― Tony Jones , Did God Kill Jesus?: Searching for Love in History’s Most Famous Execution

20 " this: The work of atonement that is accomplished on the cross is one of invitation into the eternal, loving relationship of the Trinity—ultimately, into union with God. "

― Tony Jones , A Better Atonement: Beyond the Depraved Doctrine of Original Sin

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