Jesus Quotes
The gospels, never meant to report, butrather to convince, are in no sense objective and dispassionate biographies. They are glowing accounts meant to persuade people of the writers’ convictions.
Against the subtle cries of nature, I found peace. I found home. I found the past and the future strung into a present that demanded to be lived.
To abandon all is to take our hearts, place them before the One who created them, and dare to believe He can live life powerfully through our surrendered lives.
Once I finally understand the immensity of my own impoverishment, I am finally in a position to see the enormity of God’s majesty.
Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis.
The Church should spend less time trying to be "relevant", which can come across as disingenuous, and more time trying to align their hearts to the authentic gospel message.
Greatness demands that I understand that I am not nearly as big as I thought myself to be, but that I am capable of becoming far bigger than I ever imagined myself to be.
When I’m at the bottom looking up, the main question may not be ‘how do I get out of this hole?’ In reality, the main question might be ‘how do I get rid of the shovel that I used to dig it?
Your love, not your worry, is the most valuable thing any of us can give our children.
We are partners with our children because we are just like them, dearly loved sinners.
We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are.
If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence?
The Bible is gloriously for us, but it is not mainly about us.
Why do people believe what they read in the newspapers, but question what they read in the Bible?
We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us.
The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?
Mine is the only view that appropriately combines the end-time messianic expectations of the Jews with Christian scripture.
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.
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.
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.
Even death is going to die!
A good shepherd always gives people freedom to choose
It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.
God uses language to create and command us.
Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.
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.
Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.
The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.
One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity!
Christmas is a bold act of emboldening sacrifice and the most selfless gift ever granted the rebellious lot that we are.