Jesus Quotes
If I were to be brutally honest with myself, how often is my journey actually a path designed to circumvent my journey?
Whatever I ‘align’’ myself with are the very things that will create a ‘line’ into my future.
The present is too often squandered grieving the past or fearing the future, which makes the present nothing more than a cheap facsimile of what was or what will be instead of what it could be.
The denial of Christ has less to do with facts and more to do with the bent of what a person is prejudiced to conclude.
Dark night of the soul, ” said Jesus, “Happens to everybody sooner or later.
Sin is a fundamental failure to rejoice in what we should rejoice in.
Prayer doesn’t begin with our needs, but with his bounty.
It shouldn’t surprise us…to find that prayer is not finally about getting things from God, but getting God.
This is the heart of prayer—not getting things from God, but getting God.
…Prayer to God is not only the place for divulging our heart, but also developing our desires.
The great purpose of prayer is not getting things from God but getting God.
We are not to mimic witches spicing their caldrons with a little eye of newt and tail of squirrel when we add Jesus’ name to our prayers.
If He strips us of all our own resources, we just might learn to lean on Him. And to start praying again.
Close your eyes, and with Jesus, journey back through your day. As you do, confess sin as you see it...
My goal is to correct evil. I have to instruct these people on the right path.
The self, when confined into the usual wakeful state of consciousness, is human, but when enters into the transcendental state of Absolute Oneness, becomes God.
Try taking five minutes for meditation. Close your eyes and in your mind picture Jesus. Watch Him turn, look at you and hear Him...
I listened to God and to my husband, not the the enemy's whispers, not to other people's opinions.
She has committed great sins, but they've been forgiven, and that's why she loves so deeply.
Ask God to give you the fifty-year view of your hurt.
Forgiveness of sins is great, but I'd rather have the ability to quit doing the things I keep needing forgiveness for.
Christ did to the Jewish orthodoxy, what Buddha did to the Hindu orthodoxy.
Think of the good that Christ imparted on the society. And think of the great evil that has been done through fanaticism over one damn phrase “salvation through Christ, the Son of God.
Jesus recognized that God within him and became Christ - so did Siddhartha Gautama and became Buddha - so did I - and so can you.
Incarnation is good news not because it offers us a way out of the mess of this world, but because it shows us what God's love looks like here and now.
It took him a while to figure out that gaining an audience was not the same thing as gaining friends.
The more we love, the more it hurts, and the more we have to let go.
It has been said that a man with an argument is no match for a man with an experience.
We spend more time asking what would Jesus do instead of what did Jesus do.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is an offense to both religion and irreligion. It can't be co-opted by either moralism or relativism.
Human language falls short of expressing all that He is, even as a thimble lacks capacity to hold Niagara Falls.
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last.
When God looks at sin, what he sees is what a violin maker would see if the player were to use his lovely creation as a tennis racquet.
The blessing we receive for following Jesus comes also with persecutions, which, if we have faith to accept them, can also be a blessing.
I follow Jesus not because I don't have any doubts. I follow Jesus because in my doubt, He has always been tender with me.
If Jesus looks too feminine to us, maybe it says more about our understanding of masculinity than it does about a possible conspiracy to feminize the church and men.
Rather than elevating poverty to a form of righteousness, Jesus is instead calling for a revolution of imagination around the nature of what we consider true blessing.
It seems that God arranged the most humiliating circumstances possible for His entrance, as if to avoid any charge of favoritism.
To be in Jesus' easy yoke is an easy way of doing hard things." (p. 202)
The biggest difference between between religious people and gospel-loving people is that religious people see certain people as the enemies, when Jesus-followers see sin as the enemy.
At this moment God might not necessarily be a necessity, but know that His absence will of necessity eventually result in His necessity.
In the Upper Room and on Calvary's hill, Jesus teaches us that the most important aspects of a well-lived life are love, humility and obedience.
Our job as Christians is to stick so close to Jesus that when people are around us, they sense him.
To keep my life free of evil I must of necessity keep my life full of God, for keeping my life full of anything else will give evil everything else.
His soul was shaped by the cadence of Sabbath keeping and seasonal festivals that were intended to help Him and all people to remember God's faithfulness, protection, and provision.
Paul may be an excellent source for those interested in the early formation of Christianity, but he is a poor guide for uncovering the historical Jesus.
No sooner do I conquer a bad habit than I become the biggest critic of anyone who still does what I just stopped doing.