Of Jesus Christ Quotes
I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.
If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty of erasers and a whole lot of white-out. Better yet, I should invest in a good shredder.
To attempt to know myself ‘apart’ from God is to choose to know nothing more than ‘a part’ of myself.
Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life.
Easter is God throwing everything at death so that I can give everything to life.
Of course God does outrageous things. But in reality, what insanity would prompt me to follow a God who did anything less?
Easter says that every ending ever experienced by man is exquisitely crafted to find its own ending at the feet of a fresh beginning.
We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that.
The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior.
The worst defeat of all is to surrender without having been defeated. And it is Christmas that obliterates both.
Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever and He doesn't need a makeover!
A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the man or woman on their knees that builds the former and gives wind to the latter.
In life I will fall, I will backslide, but mark my word I will never give up.
Given the lethal enormity of sin and the inestimable value of a single soul, a baby in a manger and a man on a cross makes more sense that anything else I will ever be able to possibly imagine.
My prayer is that God would continue to love me enough to refuse to answer the prayers I'm praying that I shouldn't be praying.
Too often my solution is to let something die because I can’t keep it alive, when God’s solution is to let something live because His Son already died for it.
Human language falls short of expressing all that He is, even as a thimble lacks capacity to hold Niagara Falls.
When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last.
The Christmas story is penmanship of the most brilliant sort, where God crafted a beginning that would never be subject to an ending.
Christmas embodies everything that I need. However, everything that I need is often made up of a lot of stuff I don’t want.
I would like to say that I’m sacrificial. But am I sacrificial enough to acknowledge the fact that I’m not?
More often than not, rejecting rescue is in reality rejecting our need to be rescued. And it may very well be that is why so many reject Christmas.
This is the wonder of Christmas, that in the solitary form of an impoverished infant God has handed me everything that I could never create so that I can be everything that I could never be.
Worlds of my own creation are erected with walls that are within but a few scant paces of each other. The world that God creates for me has no idea what walls are.
The love and compassion of Jesus christ is not understood and felt by devils.
From beginning to end, our Christian lives— highs and lows, fasting and fornication— are a tapestry of grace.Charis: God's Scandalous Grace for Us (p. 31).
To be Spirit-filled is to be Christ-centered.
I am so glad that Jesus does not say, “Practice more spiritual disciplines.” He says, “Come to me…and I will give you rest.
He endured all that hell is on the cross, so that you would never know what hell is like.
Unfortunately when I'm on my death bed I believe I'll be like most people and still looking for Jesus. And yes I've checked my sock drawer.
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.
Eternity is not just looking to the future and our place with God in Heaven, but it is looking at our Eternity as if it were only moments away.
Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn't make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the eyes to see and the ears to hear... then his message was easily understood.
If economies collapse and lawlessness rules and resources are scarce, many people who claim with their mouths that they follow Jesus... will abandon him with their lives.
"The more we spend our time 'practicing the presence' of Jesus, the more we become like Him"~ R. Alan Woods
Mine is the only view that appropriately combines the end-time messianic expectations of the Jews with Christian scripture.
And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed robbery.
