Messiah Quotations

In historical messianism, the reign of the Messiah is brought about by a Jewish ruler powerful enough to gather the Jewish exiles back to the land of Israel, reestablish a Torah government there, and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.

Had Elijah Muhammad tried to introduce an orthodox form of Arab-oriented Islam, I doubt if he would have attracted 500 people, but he introduced a form of Islam that would communicate with the people he had to deal with. He was the king to those who had no king, and he was the messiah to those some people thought unworthy of a messiah.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

For more than 30 years, ... the settlers' dream has overwhelmed the dream of secular Israelis. Day in and day out, the vision of Greater Israel and the reign of the Messiah crushed the hope of being a free people and building a just society.

People look for a messiah all the time. And everybody is just busy doing their own thing, trying to learn how to play the music.

I am a 'little messiah' walking on earth.

We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.

Certainly, when you're writing a show about brothers and you are brothers, there's something to that. But I wouldn't say either of have an inferiority complex. I'm the third and Brian's the fourth out of four brothers in our family. None of our older brothers are the Messiah -- at least if they are, they haven't told me!

There will never be another Black Messiah unless we create him

They found the new Messiah by the star.

He's not the Messiah - he's a very naughty boy.

My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him.

If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.

Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.

We must not look for some kind of Messiah.

Jesus did not come to be the Messiah

Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.

If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus.

For every second of time was the strait gate through which the Messiah might enter.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift.

The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.