Tag Archive for: JT

LG100 The third way to unity within yourself

They showed Jesus a gold piece and said to him:
The men of the emperor demand tax from us.
He told them:
Give to the emperor what is from the emperor, give to God what is from God,
and what is mine give it to me.

LG114 The equality of women

Simon Peter said to him:
Send Maria away from us, because women are not worth living.
Jesus said:
Behold, I will connect with her and make her human, so that she too may become a living spirit, just like your men. For every woman who becomes a human being will also enter the kingdom of heaven.

LG113 The kingdom is spread over the earth

His disciples said to him:
When will the kingdom come?
Jesus said:
The kingdom does not come by expecting it.
You can’t say, “It’s here,” or “It’s there.”
No, the kingdom is spread over the earth
but they don’t see it.

LG112 Noli me tangere

Jesus said:
Woe to the flesh that depends on the soul;
woe to the soul that depends on the flesh.

LG111 The answer is a smile

Jesus said:
The heavens and the earth will roll up
in your presence.
And whoever lives by the living will not taste like death.
Did not Jesus say:
Whoever finds himself is above the world?

LG110 Knowing an unbeliever

Jesus said:
Who has found the world and is rich,
he renounces the world.

LG109 Repositories of weathered wisdom

Jesus said:
The kingdom is like a human
in whose field there was a treasure,
without knowing it.
When he died, he left his son’s land.
The son didn’t know anything about that darling either.
He inherited the land and sold it.
And the person who bought it went plowing and found the treasure.
He started to lend money, at interest,
whomever he wanted.

LG108 Become like Jesus

Jesus said:
Whoever drinks from my mouth
will be like me
and I like him;
and what was hidden will be revealed to him.

LG107 The sheep looking for its destination

Jesus said:
The kingdom is like a shepherd who had a hundred sheep.
One of them, the largest, left.
The shepherd left the ninety-nine
and looked for that one until he found it.
And after he had put all that effort into it
he said to the sheep:
You count for me more than ninety-nine.