Quotes from Jay Parini
The whole point of the Resurrection stories - and the Resurrection itself - is that we don't recognize Jesus when he comes back to us.
- Jay Parini
By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.
- Jay Parini
Among the disciples of Jesus, it seems most likely that at least Philip was bilingual in Aramaic and Greek.
- Jay Parini
Whether we're looking at the burial box of St. James, a fragment of the True Cross, the Shroud of Turin, or some bones supposedly belonging to John the Baptist, there is always excitement and distrust, faith and doubt.
- Jay Parini
A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.
- Jay Parini
Even among those who have no special allegiance to a particular branch of Christianity, there are plenty of seekers as well as agnostics and atheists who harbor a certain curiosity about Jesus and his story.
- Jay Parini
Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth - those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives.
- Jay Parini
In dreams begin possibilities.
- Jay Parini
All writers would like to be overrated in their own lifetimes.
- Jay Parini
This is my commandment," Jesus said, putting before us a single ideal, "That you love one another, as I have loved you" (John 15:12). The simplicity and force of this statement take away the breath.
- Jay Parini
But Jesus felt her yearning, her fragility masked by bravado. He always broke down barriers, never erected them.
- Jay Parini
Jesus had upset the temporal authorities, and political consequences would surely follow.
- Jay Parini