Nazareth Quotations

There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.

Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.

We've always been second in Rochester behind Nazareth in lacrosse, but I think we've proven we can play with them.

We expected Nazareth to battle us like everyone else in this conference, and they did. We took their shot, though, and didn't back down.

As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.

I told them to just be patient and keep doing what we do and not to get out of our element. Nazareth played a great defensive game all day, so I told them to be patient. We just needed to be sure that we got a good look.

I'd say we've had one of the better programs in the last 12 years -- we've been to state half of those years. Nazareth has been one of the top ones since I don't know when.

I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.

We see God all the time here. People only hear bad things about our neighborhood. Kensington is known as the badlands. I always say you have to be careful when you call a place the badlands because that is exactly what they said about Nazareth. Nothing good can come from there. I think we see God in the margins.

"Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes from exactly that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always different from what was expected. Everything new is received with contempt-for it begins in obscurity. It becomes a power unobserved.

If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship him as God and nothing else.