Judah Smith Quotes

Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone.

Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance.

Be the same person privately, publically and personally.

Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.

Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn't logical.

God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.

Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn't share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.

Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.

What we do on Sunday absolutely doesn't matter unless it meets us on Monday. Changes us on Monday. Transforms us on Monday.

You don’t have to be good to be Jesus’s friend. You just have to be honest.

Grace is God-given power to live differently.

Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.

Are you struggling with sin? You don’t need more will power. You need more of Jesus.

We are often harsher judges than God himself.

The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.

Don't cheapen Jesus's sacrifice by trying to pay him back

It’s interesting how people try to redefine God to their liking. They bring him down to their level so they can understand him, then they reject him because he is too much like them.

When we meet grace, it becomes the fuel of our faith. We pray, we read our Bibles, we worship and we live the purest lifestyle we can because we love a person.

It seemed too good to be true. That's grace.

If you dont love, youve lost your distinction, definition, uniqueness, and identity.

Grace is a person. And his name is Jesus.

We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.

Rules are not bad, but they can't save anyone.

A moment with Jesus changed everything.

Christianity is not about not swearing. It’s not about not having impure thoughts. Really, it’s not about not at all. Christianity is about Jesus.

I’ve never met a person who exaggerated God’s love. Never. It’s impossible.

We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.

A father doesn't say, 'Don't go that way.' He says, 'ome follow me.'

If we could get people to think about Jesus, we reasoned, Jesus was more than able to reveal himself to them.

I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, "I want a Dad." But you won't abide in anyone.

Once you savor God's goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.

God transforms us one area at a time.

Responsibility is good for your soul

Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don't focus on riles. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus.

The common denominator is that we all need help.

You didnt access love, love accessed you!

Sometimes God takes your life for some crazy twists and turns.

It is absolutely essential to have a living visible example of what a Christian ought to be.

But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.

Indifference was our greatest enemy.

What an opportunity we have to be a community....A community where there are models.

Rules are not proof of our spirituality. If anything, they are proof of our sinfulness, a reminder that we have a tendency toward wrongdoing and that we need help.

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.

No sooner do I conquer a bad habit than I become the biggest critic of anyone who still does what I just stopped doing.