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“When you are happy for other people's dreams, your dreams start jumping up with joy. Elizabeth was happy with Mary and her dream baby was jumping in her womb crazily for joy!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Simple, powerful, poignant, the Sign of the Cross is a mnemonic device like the Mass, in which we sit down to table with one another and remember the Last Supper, or a baptism, where we remember John the Baptist's brawny arm pouring some of the Jordan River over Christ. So we remember the central miracle and paradox of the faith that binds us each to each: that we believe, against all evidence and sense, in life and love and light, in the victory of those things over death and evil and darkness.”
― Brian Doyle, Credo: Essays on Grace, Altar Boys, Bees, Kneeling, Saints, the Mass, Priests, Strong Women, Epiphanies, a Wake, and the Haun

“Dear church, John the baptist died for exposing the sins of others. Jesus died to actually pay for the sins of others.

John was great, but we should not follow his model. Our model is Christ. So lets stop telling the world how bad their sin is and lets start sharing how good the Father has always been.”
― Carlos A. Rodriguez

“They asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."
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John 1:21”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

“I am 'the voice of one crying out in the desert,
"Make straight the way of the Lord,”
― Anonymous, The New American Bible

“I am ‘the voice of one crying out in the desert,
“Make straight the way of the Lord,”
― Anonymous, The New American Bible

“John (the Baptist) stands as prophets do to this very day, as an unyielding presence unsettling us and leaving us not quite sure of how we feel about him.
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And yet John seems hard to know, hard to like even though we stand back in admiration of him. We react the same way to most absolute figured.”
― Eugene Kennedy, The Joy of Being Human: Reflections for Every Day of the Year

“Patrick Leonidas Wayne! you will explain yourself right now, or I will hand your ass to you on a silver platter like John the Baptist had his served up. Am I clear?”
― L.B. Ó Ceallaigh, Souls' Inverse

“Therefore, this joy of mine is now full. He must increase, and I must decrease.”
― John The Baptist

“Luke has interspersed with an account of the nativity of John the Baptist (no doubt obtained from the rival sect of John) a parallel nativity of Jesus built on John's model. Not that Luke himself was the one who composed it; it, too, was most likely pre-Lukan material. [...] Though Luke used prior sources, probably in Aramaic, for the nativities of John and Jesus, it appears he himself contributed bits of connective text to bring the two parallel stories into a particular relationship so that John should be subordinated to Jesus, whom Luke makes Jesus' elder cousin. This original, redactional material is Luke 1:36, 39-45, 56. It consists of a visit of Mary to her cousin Elizabeth, whereupon the fetus John, already in possession of clairvoyant gifts, leaps in the womb to acknowledge the greater glory of the messianic zygote. All this is blatantly legendary, or there is no such thing as a legend. Luke probably got the idea from Gen. 25:22, where according to the Greek translation of the Old Testament, the Septuagint, Rebecca is painfully pregnant with twins. [...] In this way Luke tries to harmonize the competing traditions of Jesus and John, whose cousinhood is no doubt his own invention.”
― Robert M. Price, The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable is the Gospel Tradition?