Christ follows Dionysus Phallic and ambrosial Made way for macerations; Caliban casts out Ariel.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, pt.3.

Indeed, if one can say that Christ comes to the oppressed and the oppressed especially hear him, then it is women within these marginal groups who are often seen both as the oppressed of the oppressed and alsoas those particularly receptive to the gospel.

-Ruether, Rosemary Radford
To Change theWorld: Christology and Cultural Criticism.

In ancient shadows and twilights Where childhood had strayed, The world's great sorrows were born And its heroes were made. In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

-Russell, GeorgeWilliam pseudonym  Ó
  Enchantment and Other Poems,'Germinal'.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in everyage to save those that have no imagination?

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Saint  Joan, epilogue.

The Church's one foundation Is Jesus Christ, her Lord; She is his new creation By water and the word; From heaven he came and sought her To be his holy bride, With his own blood he bought her. And for her life he died.

-Stone, Samuel John
  Lyra fidelium.

O slain and spent and sacrificed People, the grey-grown speechless Christ.

-Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Songs before Sunrise,'Before a Crucifix'.

Auctor nominis eius Christus,Tiberio imperitante, per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum, supplicio affectus erat. Christ, the leader of the sect, had been put to death by the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.

-Tacitus
Annals, bk.15, ch.44.

Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; 844 Ring in the Christ that is to be.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto106, l.17^32.

But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have killed their Christ.

-Tennyson
  Maud, pt.2, sect.5, stanza 2, l.266^7.

To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honour his own words as if his God's.

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King,'Guinevere', l.465^70.

   Would it have helped Ben Hur if Christ had not been crucified?

-Ustinov, Sir PeterAlexander
  Comment when the financiers of his Billy Budd expressed their preference for a happy ending. Recalled in his autobiography Dear Me (1977).

Ifelt my heart strangely warmed.I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation; and an assurance was given methat hehad taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.

-Wesley,John
  Journal entry, 24 May.

The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of his agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent and uncertain† But there can be no doubt as to the elements in the record that have evoked the best in human nature. The Mother, the Child and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self- forgetful, with his message of peace, love and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.

-Whitehead, Alfred North
 Adventures of Ideas.

How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
  The Ballad of Reading Gaol, pt.5, stanza14.

Christ during His life upon earth was of all men the poorest, casting from Himall worldlyauthority.I deduce fromthese premises†thatthe Popeshould surrenderall temporal authority to the civil power and advise his clergy to do the same.

-Wycliffe,John
  Dismissing an order to appear before the Papal Court.