Jesus Quotes
The instant is gone, time has carried us into the realm of memory, it was like this, no, it was not, and everything becomes what we choose to invent.
It was the call for animals that have two horns that brought out the snail
Your ability to consummate Leadership or follower-ship brings fulfillment at each appointed time in life
Man is, that he may have Joy.
Greater love hath no man then this, that a man lay down his life for his friends
He's firmly, irrevocably, unambiguously convinced that you're somebody worth dying for.
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.
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.
I admit that at times my prayer for my children is nothing more than vocalized unbelief aimed at God.
I did my best parenting by prayer. I began to speak less to the kids and more to God. It was actually quite relaxing.
The Jesus Movement had survived the fad phase and was settling down for the long haul.
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.
He (Chuck Smith) was leery of music that moved the body more than the soul.
A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.
Here is a very simple and trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: If it's not about Christ, it's not Christianity.
Referring to the church as a building is like referring to people as two-by-fours.
Open-handed generosity and caring for the poor and marginalized as if we were caring for Jesus himself are extensions of our worship.
Apart from childhood and crisis, prayers have a way of being abstracted from the homely and distinctive details that are part and parcel of our ordinary and daily life.
The only cure for suffering is to face it head on, grasp it round the neck and use it.
In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah’s history written in advance in story form.
Once upon a time, a king came to earth to tell stories, and the stories contained the mystery of eternal life.
Wanted: Steel toed Bible thumpers to reach a monster truck mad world.
The more I read, the more I felt the Bible looked a lot more like the movie 300 than the movie Pleasantville.
If we fail to understand the biblical story of Jesus, we will compromise our prophetic interpretations of the end-times. And that's exactly what we've done.
Often the question of, "Who am I?" should be answered with, "Whose am I?
It's all about the spirit. Every man, woman and child should be seen as a spirit first, before anything else. We are all spirits in the first instance.
I know my rightful place as a child of God
I would be an utter fool to let my journey be defined by the denial of the journey.
No one has ever been deeply changed by an act of the will. The only thing that can re-forge and change a life at its root, is love.
The next time an unbeliever tells you they would believe in God "if He would just do a miracle, " you will know that is not true. Miracles do not convert people, God converts people.
The difference between a theist and an atheist is the degree to which God has revealed himself to them.
Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we sink into the mire of deceit and self-delusion.
The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became.
In our sin, we’d rather trust in ourselves than another, amass our own righteousness than receive another’s, speak our own mind rather than listen to someone else.
The proper biblical understanding of sin is much more radical and far-reaching. It can never be used as a weapon, because it will recoil on anyone who tries to deploy it that way.
Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.
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.
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.
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.
Christmas is a bold act of emboldening sacrifice and the most selfless gift ever granted the rebellious lot that we are.
One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity!
The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.
Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.
The Gospel isn’t a life management program. It shouldn’t merely be the crutch we fall on when life gets ugly. It should be the legs we walk on, the air we breathe.
Even death is going to die!
Out of humility I label not myself or others. All I can say is this
Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ and author of the Four Spiritual Laws chose three words for his tombstone: "slave for Jesus".
Thanksgiving is an attitude that must be rooted in the ‘gift of life’ if we ever hope to be thankful for the ‘gifts’ of life.