Jesus Quotes
The Jesus People experience proved to be a staging area for tens of thousands of young Americans who were making up their mind about marriage, schooling, and careers
It's much easier to talk about following Jesus when you are making general statements rather than specific commitments.
If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.
Jesus is the culmination of the greatness and the goodness of God.
The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous.
I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.
Control is the inner disease of those who need stability and order to function.
Stop living a double life, God isn't looking for a part- time christian but he's looking for a full-time Christian.
Cross and resurrection are the South and North polls, true gospel polarities, of a single, undivided, salvation world. Remove either Paul and you've got salvation.
Without stories we end up with stereotypes -- a flat earth with flat cardboard figures that have no texture or depth, no INTERIOR.
When I think of how Jesus loved people, the word “cherish” comes to mind. When we cherish someone, we combine looking and compassion—we notice and care for that person. We don’t shut him or her out.
We begin to resemble what we focus on. If we devote our lives to our jobs, then we mentally take the office to our daughter’s lacrosse game.
Loving means losing control of our schedule, our money, and our time. When we love we cease to be the master and become a servant.
The Word, the Gospel, creates not just people individually but A people collectively
Maybe the greatest hope of Christmas is that what it purports to be is exactly what it is.
Let him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let him in can he pull us out.
As we enter the path of transformation, the most valuable thing we have working in our favor is our yearning.
The risen Lord is the new Temple, the real meeting place between God and man.
Idolatry is always subject to the law of diminishing returns.
I realized that what I feared the most had materialized, yet I survived.
We often forget how thirsty we are because we believe we will fulfill our dreams.
When we would say 'No way, ' he would say, 'My way.' Then the ones who doubted would scramble to salvage the blessing. And the one who gave it would savor the surprise.
You're a miracle, Walker. Your fingers are. Your toes are. Your crushing sadness and guilt are.
One of the effects of the gospel going deeper into our souls is that it frees our fingers to loosen their grasp on our goods.
Everyone has honour and a good name. It is the only sacred thing that every person has.
To pray is to learn to believe in in a transformation of self and world, which seems, empirically, impossible.
Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.
What says Christ doesn't return today and His most faithful followers don't turn around and have Him crucified again (if that were possible)? That’s what happened the first time, after all.
When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and breaks her.
One of the things I really dislike about Christians is their hypocrisy
In the deepest sense, the Bible is not meant to be interpreted, but rather revealed!
The fool has said in his heart: pass me another Everlasting God-Stopper, please.
The problem is not that we don’t recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don’t want to recognize what the truth might mean for us if we hear it.
Rules are not proof of our spirituality. If anything, they are proof of our sinfulness, a reminder that we have a tendency toward wrongdoing and that we need help.
The hands of the clock are ever in the hands of God. It is arrogant to plan without planning for God.
Could it be that following our initiatory path and connecting with higher source wisdom might actually be one of our species’ best defense systems?
Why build entirely new systems for connecting to Christ consciousness when the institutions—whether Methodist, Lutheran, or Baptist—have already been created?
Maybe the same essential download was also being delivered to other people—a massive, compassionate battalion of us—at the same time.
What good is a revolution anyway if it isn’t joyful?