Quotes about jesus
jesus believe church
The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees. Mike Yaconelli
jesus adventure knowing
I want a lifetime of holy moments. Every day I want to be in dangerous proximity to Jesus. I long for a life that explodes with meaning and is filled with adventure, wonder, risk, and danger. I long for a faith that is gloriously treacherous. I want to be with Jesus, not knowing whether to cry or laugh.
jesus mirrors voice
Speed damages our souls because living fast consumes every ounce of our energy. Speed has a deafening roar that drowns our the whispering voices of our souls and leaves Jesus as a diminishing speck in the rearview mirror.
jesus party doors
Nothing in the church makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and find the uninvited standing at the door making sure no other uninviteds get in. Then a strange phenomenon occurs: as soon as we are included in the party because of Jesus' irresponsible love, we decide to make grace "more responsible" by becoming self-appointed Kingdom Monitors, guarding the kingdom of God, keeping the riffraff out (which, as I understand it, are who the kingdom of God is supposed to include).
jesus godly ideas
What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly.
jesus bumps arms
Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes ... a life ruined by a Jesus who loves us right into his arms.
jesus fighting animal
All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too. Mike Tyson
jesus crazy men
When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
jesus art men
O most sacred, most loving heart of Jesus, thou art concealed in the Holy Eucharist, and thou beatest for us still.... Thou art the heart of the Most High made man.... Thy Sacred Heart is the instrument and organ of Thy love. It did beat for us. It yearned for us. It ached for our salvation. It was on fire through zeal, that the glory of God might be manifested in and by us.... In worshipping thee I worship my incarnate God, my Emmanuel John Henry Newman
jesus holy-days names
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
jesus father produce
Jesus refused to produce a sign. .. because it was not the Father's will, nor his, to be Messiah. John Hagee
jesus messiah
Jesus did not come to be the Messiah
jesus school mean
As soon as Jesus sits on his throne he's gonna rule the world with a rod of iron. That means he's gonna make the ACLU do what he wants them to. That means you're not gonna have to ask if you can pray in public school. We will live by the law of God and no other law.
jesus sick pay
Jesus did not help just the sick who could afford to pay for it. John F. Kerry
jesus home joy
An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness. John Eldredge
jesus personality followers
If only Jesus' followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.
jesus needs true-knowledge
A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.
jesus reading personality
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off,
jesus ocean humility
He is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm; he is cunning as a snake and gentle as a whisper; the gladness of sunshine and the humility of a thirty-mile walk by foot on a dirt road.
jesus heart giving
Of course, none of this can happen for us until we give our lives back to God. We cannot know the joy or the life or the freedom of heart I've described until we surrender our lives to Jesus and surrender them totally... We turn, and give ourselves body, soul, and spirit back to God, asking him to cleanse our hearts and make them new. And he does. He gives us a new heart. And he comes to dwell there, in our hearts.
jesus play personality
What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.
jesus hate lying
somehow we have overlooked the fact this treasured called the heart can also be broken, has been broken, and now lies in pieces down under the surface. When it comes to habits we cannot quit or patterns we cannot stop, anger that flies out of nowhere, fears we cannot overcome, or weaknesses we hate to admit--much of what troubles us comes out of the broken places in our hearts crying out for relief. Jesus speaks as if we are all brokenhearted. We would do well to trust His perspective on this.
jesus mysterious knows
Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him. John Ortberg
jesus mean differences
There is a immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something....Sp iritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.... Following Jesus simply means learning from him how to arrange my life around activities that enable me to live in the fruit of the Spirit
jesus outcast spokes
Jesus ... associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
jesus pain choices
Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away, will you still say, 'My Lord,' even though his ways are not clear to you? Will you keep going-with all the grace and grit and faith you can muster-and live in hope that one day God will set everything right. Will you trust that God is good? ... Ultimately, the choice everyone faces is the choice between hope and despair. Jesus says, 'Choose hope.'
jesus prayer real
The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.
jesus mean decision
The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
jesus lakes storm
Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
jesus movement world
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
jesus thinking medicine
Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
jesus past climbing
The entire life of Jesus isn't the story of somebody climbing up a ladder; it's a picture of someone coming down-a series of demotions. The problem with spending our lives climbing up the ladder is that we will go right past Jesus, for He's coming down.
jesus people would-be
The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.