Jesus Quotes

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.

Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn't share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.

Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.

Grace is God-given power to live differently.

We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God's grace is poured out on the humble.

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

We are often harsher judges than God himself.

Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.

The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.

When we meet grace, it becomes the fuel of our faith. We pray, we read our Bibles, we worship and we live the purest lifestyle we can because we love a person.

It seemed too good to be true. That's grace.

It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.

If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?

Grace is a person. And his name is Jesus.

We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.

Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.

Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

The book is man's best invention so far.

Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.

Who has gone hungry learns to think of the future and of the children.

A moment with Jesus changed everything.

It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do autobiography and call it biography.

If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

we are slaves to the cost of living.

A child is the root of the heart.

[On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything that is weak dies one day.

Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name.

The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.

The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.

As Christians, we should be the best collaborators in the world. We should be quick to find unlikely allies and subversive friends, like Jesus did.

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.

It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

God transforms us one area at a time.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.