Jesus Quotes
If I am so terribly limited as to view my handicaps as nothing more than lamentable limitations, then I have taken some of my greatest God-given assets and completely handicapped them.
And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course.
When it comes to doing something about what is wrong in the world, Jesus is best known for his fondness for the minute, the invisible, the quiet, the slow – yeast, salt, seeds, light. And manure.
Open-handed generosity and caring for the poor and marginalized as if we were caring for Jesus himself are extensions of our worship.
Referring to the church as a building is like referring to people as two-by-fours.
Here is a very simple and trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: If it's not about Christ, it's not Christianity.
A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.
He (Chuck Smith) was leery of music that moved the body more than the soul.
If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life. He deserves to be at the center of your life.
The Jesus Movement had survived the fad phase and was settling down for the long haul.
I did my best parenting by prayer. I began to speak less to the kids and more to God. It was actually quite relaxing.
I admit that at times my prayer for my children is nothing more than vocalized unbelief aimed at God.
Money and machines anesthetize neediness. They put us in charge, in control. As long as the money holds out and the machines are in good repair, we don't need to pray.
The end is where we start from. T.S. Eliot
Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.
If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there, ’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” Matthew 17: 21
Faith is the sense of the soul that reaches out and perceives the mountain-moving, water-walking God. That touches the hem of the Healer. That confounds every other sense because it binds us to You.
The great design of Jesus' descent into hell is to rousepeople out of their deep sleep, to deliver them from sin and death.
Loving others isn't about us at all. And until that sinks in, we'll never be able to love the way Christ truly loved.
The battle on the cross reveals just how little Satan understands God
To take Christ into our well-ordered, well-kept lives is in many ways to ask for trouble, for he will not leave well enough alone.
The frightening thing is that, to enter hell, all one has to do is nothing.
In God’s vocabulary, ‘lost’ is an unnecessary adjective that is easily erased by the adjective ‘found’ if we would simply be brave enough to hand Him the eraser.
I was a lazy reader as a kid. One nutrition label on a box of Cap’n Crunch and I’d have to take a nap.
We advise disciples not to follow anyone. Let them follow themselves. Each one should follow his resplendent and luminous inner Being.
The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us.
Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves.
Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.
Unlike mere action, prayer is not subject to immediate evaluation or verification. If we are addicted to "results" we will quickly lose interest in prayer.
To obey the commands of Scripture can finally become a delight when we see that the reasons almost always center around God's love and provision for us in Christ.
We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.
Preaching reveals God in action here and now -- for ME.
There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to.
We need alert listeners to give dignity to those stretches in our lives when we are not aware of participating in anything we think might be embraced by the kingdom of God.
Private worship excites us for public worship.
Worship shadows eternity and provides supernatural encouragement.
The pastor owns the opportunity to issue of the flock that it is OK not to be OK.
Moses challenged parents both to teach the faith diligently and to maximize normal encounters or ongoing discussion.
A student is engaging, attentive, notes details, and shows effort in learning.
God never encourages self-reliance.
True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.
The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon your own independence for 20 years or so.
On Christ's attitude toward His disciples: "If I gave away My big all to get to you, can you give away your little all to follow Me?
I thought parenting was going to reveal my strengths, never realizing that God had ordained it to reveal my weaknesses.
Conversions were easy, but making full-time disciples was hard.