And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.
Founder of Christianity
Gospel of Matthew 18:9, teaching about avoiding sin.
c. 30-33 CE
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"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these."
Philosophical"But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea."
Shocking"Let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one."
Philosophical"So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple."
Controversial"I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo, and what constraint I am under until it is completed!"
Shocking