Jesus Quotes
My advice: just keep movin' straight ahead. Every now and then you find yourself in a different place.
After eating the world's bread, we wake each morning to remember: We are still hungry. Seek a better loaf. Eat, and never die. Taste, savor, and be filled forever.
Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don't focus on riles. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus.
A saving, though an immethodical knowledge of Christ, will bring us to heaven, John 17: 2, but a regular and methodical, as well as a saving knowledge of him, will bring heaven into us, Col. 2: 2, 3.
Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance.
Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.
I had no shoes, and I felt sorry for myself until I met a man who had no feet. I took his shoes. Now I feel better.
God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.
Sometimes God takes your life for some crazy twists and turns.
Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch. We experience his care.
And off we go, out onto the highway looking for a little fun. Perhaps a flatbed truck loaded with human cadavers will explode in front of a Star Trek reunion. One can only dream and hope.
Believe that God is strong enough to save your children, no matter how you fail.
Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)
The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew
Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.
Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.
Dare to be brave today, and trust that when you extend your wings, you will fly.
Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.
Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.
God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth.
I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
Pride and entitlement always go with unforgiveness. The longer you hold someone's offense over them, the more likely you are to start feeling arrogant and entitled to your posture toward him.
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.
Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.
Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't.
I'm not a person who thinks they can have it all, but I certainly feel that with a bit of effort and guile I should be able to have more than my fair share.
With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.
But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.
As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.
Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.
We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He’ll do more than we expect.
Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.
She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.
It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.
Serving your enemies is the fastest way to learn to love them.
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.
Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.
It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
The most important thing for us to do as beings is to be aware of our position in the world on a micro and macro level.
