257 quotes found
“Women in Jesus' day were less than second-class citizens.”
“Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake.”
“You give your way out of poverty but you sacrifice your way to wealth.”
“The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah...and died to give his work its final consecration never existed. ["Modern Christian Thought: The twentieth century, Volume 2" by Jame...”
“In times of suffering, don't turn inward to self-pity or outward to revenge, but turn to the lover of your soul, Jesus.”
“Jesus does not impose intolerable restrictions on his disciples, he does not forbid them to look at anything, but bids them look on him. If they do that he knows that their gaze will always be pure...”
“Things I learned from a man called The Nazarene 1- Being poor does not equal being miserable.2- People will judge you, but their judgment should not define who you are.3- Going against what others ...”
“Jesus sleeps on the cross by the church door. When he wakes up, he'll be old. The air in the village will be brighter than his naked skin.”
“Joy is found in Jesus when we rejoice in Him. We can rejoice our way to joy!”
“When you look in the eyes of grace, when you meet grace, when you embrace grace, when you see the nail prints in graces hands and the fire in his eyes, when you feel his relentless love for you - i...”
“Matthew lists Rahab as one of the ancestresses of the Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 1:5), and that may be one reason why there was something about free-wheeling ladies with warm and generous hearts th...”
“Jesus is great -- is there a better role model? No. It's religion, it's the people who get in between -- the bureaucracy, you know. ... It's the way people abuse Jesus. Was there ever a greater vic...”
“Creation is the result, but not the beginning of love. Redemption is the manifestation of God as love, and therefore points to a love of absolute necessity and eternity. God is love, not God became...”
“Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.”
“The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ”
“The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of hope and healing to those who have been marginalized.”
“Jesus is not your accuser. Hes not your prosecutor. Hes not your judge. Hes your friend and your rescuer. Like Zacchaeus, just spend time with Jesus. Dont hide from him in shame or reject him in se...”
“A moment with Jesus changed everything.”
“Some people have a warped idea of living the Christian life. Seeing talented, successful Christians, they attempt to imitate them. For them, the grass on the other side of the fence is always green...”
“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.”
