Jesus Quotes

The reason we haven't yet fully understood the Jesus story is that we are gospel-based rather than Bible-based Christians!

To become more like Jesus we must understand that the only growth we can be in charge of is our own.

Money is a cheap but powerful substitute for Jesus, and wielding money is intoxicating, but it won't usher in the kingdom of God, nor will it ensure eternal treasures.

Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present.

When Jesus isn’t our everything, our enough, we pursue every other thing that fills.

You don’t need a Master’s in Theology to love people.

Make no mistake, sin has been dealt with once for all, and we are as close to Him as we will ever be.

When I was trying to earn Jesus by being good, I missed the real Jesus who wants us to love him and serve him not for what he gives but for who he is—dangerous, unpredictable, radical, and amazing.

But freedom starts with honesty. We aren’t doing ourselves any favors by defining our- selves as good and others as bad. Let’s just agree that we all need help, that we are all in this together.

Being a “friend of sinners” is an accusation that Christians should wear as a badge of honor, for nothing could honor Jesus more, and nothing is more revealing of who God actually is.

To not follow Jesus is to be unmoved. To be unmoved is to risk the greatest danger of all: To misunderstand and misrepresent God.

Jesus is supposed to be the Alpha and the Omega, but in the Bible he's neither. He's stuck in the middle like the letter Q.

Christians who say we are not to judge others are only partially correct! Judging rightly is what Jesus commands. Love and truth are “The Commanded Conjoined Twins” for Jesus Followers

The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate.

We are not saved by good deeds

The end of ourselves is the beginning of God

To mourn is to touch directly the substance of divine compassion.

To fully understand how utterly amazing we really are we must first understand all of the things about us that are not, and then we must make our habitation where they are not.

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness.

Growth comes in the aftermath of failure, not wild success.

I am most thankful for what I don’t have, for had my life’s wish list been filled in the manner I had chosen I would be steeped in meaningless trinkets verses bathed in God’s treasures.

My vision of what God can do is nothing more than a fleeting glance of the backside of the ‘possible, ’ while God is inviting me to the forefront of the ‘impossible.

At some point I hope to have grown sufficiently in both stature and wisdom to understand that I cannot deliver myself from myself, and that God alone can save me from me.

Your current situation and workplace are your personal mission field. Why? Because you can reach people a church can't. You're on the front lines!

The war on Christmas is waged of weakness and fed by vision blinded. It is a war of intellect blunted to stupidity and calling begging at the feet of cowardice.

The only cure for suffering is to face it head on, grasp it round the neck and use it.

Christianity is like a nail, " he (Yemelian Yaroslavsky). "The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.

I know much less about why God allows people to suffer than I know that He Himself is a suffering God.

At Gethsemane: "Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires.

In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is.

Of course I don’t want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?

Discouragement is the cancer of great things.

I had escaped the snare of certitude that I welcomed so avidly at first and entered, via the name of Jesus, the wide and comprehensive company of Jesus.

The goal of our lives should be nothing less that becoming so familiar with the "mind of Christ" that we could write Jesus' speeches.

[The Rule:] Just do the next thing you're reasonably certain Jesus wants you to do.

[The 10-Second Rule's] power is in its simplicity, and yet it gets straight to the heart of what it means to actually follow Jesus.

He created us for adventure, not ease.

It is grace to be forgiven of sinful acts, and grace to be supplied the heart for righteous ones.

The grace of God cannot be quarantined to individuals.

Every moment thou waitest does but increase thy misery

Only when holiness and worship meet can evil be conquered. For that, only the Christian message has the answer.

New Testament gospels are traditionally accorded a cultural sanctity and lofty regard completely out of line with their literary worth.

Most people, solidly frozen into long-held, common notions, are unable to grasp clearer views.

It is vital to see not only what Christianity asserts, but where its precepts came from – how they evolved from primitive, superstitious metaphysical claims into “Gospel Truth”.

The only difference between holding one god as exclusive or supreme and believing in many gods specialized in function is the number.

In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept.

You encounter, at its core, a subjective Reality, one based on meaning and value reflective of your own Self, not an objective universe, cold, particle-based and indifferent as science projects.

Various visionaries through time came to see with some degree of clarity that Oneness, that intrinsic connection between Self and experienced Reality.

Josephus is the first historian to make note of Jesus having even existed – and that happened six full decades after his death.

That means 19 or 20 of the books of the NT (New Testament) are anonymous. Many are blatantly pseudepigraphic (forgeries, see next section), with famous names applied to artificially promote veracity.