J Quotes
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“Jesus accepted the plenary [i.e., complete, extending to all its parts] inspiration of the Bible; when first approached by the devil to turn stones into bread, our Lord replied that man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4 quoting Deut. 8:3). He did not say, "some words" but "every word." If Scripture is breathed out from God (2 Tim. 3:16), then Scripture must be included in what sustains man, not only parts of Scripture but all of it.”
“Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people into some kind of participation.”
“Jesus alone is joy.”
“Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.”
“Jesus also function on the earth through the power of light. Light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom. That is their real power on earth”
“Jesus always existed. At the same time Jesus was begotten (made human). This is the perplexing and elusive mystic core of Christian faith.”
Source: Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots
“Jesus always pointed people towards a better version of themselves - particularly when they'd failed.”
“Jesus and Buddha cannot both be right”
Source: The Lotus and the Cross: Jesus Talks with Buddha
“Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.”
Source: Assassination Vacation
“Jesus and Paul were serious dudes. They had teeth missing. Jesus was a carpenter, Paul was in prison. These guys didn’t eat tofu dogs and bean sprouts. They didn’t play tennis. If there were trucks back in their times, they would have been doing driveway lube jobs on a Saturday afternoon. Same thing with King David. Yeah, he might have played a lyre, but he slaughtered thousands of guys.”
“Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.”
Source: Select Essays and Poems
“Jesus and spirituality can easily become therapies that merely help us cope with life. They can serve us if we chose Him over other service providers. We even talk about "making Jesus my personal Lord and Savior," as if we could make Him anything!”
“Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn.”
“Jesus announced which will be the criteria of the final judgment of our lives: we will be judged according to love.We will be judged according to the poor of spirit or money.”
“Jesus answered, It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. For those of you that are sick, Jesus has healed you, in Jesus name.”
“Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America.”
“Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.”
Source: The Quest of the Historical Jesus
“Jesus asked the Father for his disciples' security, sanctity and unity. Jesus still intercedes for us so fervently because we live in a world that is deceived, dangerous, defiled and divided.”
“Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.”
Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“Jesus asks for far more than you ever thought, but offers more than you ever dreamed.”
“Jesus...Author of my Life 2nd Edition is heightened with healing from the weakest point of view and placing...”
Source: Three In One Healing Book
“Jesus became a God and reached His great state of under-standing through consistent effort and continuous obedience to all the Gospel truths and universal laws.”
“Jesus became flesh to reveal God in His love and kindness”
“Jesus became mortal to give you immortality; and today, through Him, you can be free.”
“JESUS: because the love was so great, the sin is all forgiven.
LAZARUS: Kind Rabbi, you told me so, when I fell at your feet in the house of Simon the Pharisee... Did you know? my companions and I came there that day to mock you. We thought you would be sour and grim, hating all beauty and treating life as an enemy. But when I saw you, I was amazed. you were the only person there that was really alive. The rest of us were going about half-dead—making the gestures of life, pretending to be real people. The life was not with us but with you—intense and shining, like the strong sun when it rises and turns the flames of our candles to pale smoke. And I wept and was ashamed, seeing myself such a thing of trash and tawdry. But when you spoke to me, I felt the flame of the sun in my heart. I came alive for the first time. And I love life all the more since I have learnt its meaning.”
Source: The Man Born to Be King
“Jesus beckons his followers to a path that's far from the easy road. It's a path filled with adventure, uncertainty, and unlimited possibilities - the only path that can fulfill the deepest longings and desires of your heart.”
“Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk the vulnerability of a child so that I might know how strong my Father is and how much he loves me. But truth be told, I would rather be an adult. I'd rather be in a place where I can still pull things together if God doesn't show up, where I risk no ultimate humiliation, where I don't have to take the shallow breaths of desperation. And as a result, my experience of my heavenly Father is simply impoverished.”
“Jesus becomes the captive of the hysterically religious, the chronically fearful, the insecure and even the neurotic among us, or he becomes little more than a fading memory, the symbol of an age that is no more and a nostalgic reminder of our believing past. To me, neither option is worth pursuing.”
Source: Jesus for the Non-Religious
“Jesus began to lean forward and rise from His seat. As the anointing caught in the folds of His garments, it began to splash out and fall over the church. Jesus said, "I am beginning to rise now in preparation for my second coming. Those who will rise with Me will share in this double portion of anointing."”
“Jesus being the embodiment of the Truth thus makes everything He says 'essential' and Eternally valid".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]”
Source: The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal
“Jesus birth was planned by God, and his death was planned by Jesus himself.”
“Jesus brings mystery, paradox, and tension - rarely did someone get a straight answer out of Him”
Source: Death by Church
“Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, 'I and my Father are One.'”
Source: Mind is the Master: The Complete James Allen Treasury
“Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.”
“Jesus brought freedom, not bondage, and the missionaries brought bondage, not freedom.”
Source: Rez Ramblings: Living on the Pine Ridge as 21st Century as an "Injun"
“Jesus brought the kingdom and preached what he brought”
“Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a single thing to work inside.”
“Jesus but people got weird when they lived alone.”
“Jesus by his death, redeemed us from the transgressions committed under the first covenant and became the mediator of a new covenant. Subsequently, those who are called receive the promised eternal inheritance.”
“Jesus called fishermen, not graduates of rabbinical schools. The main requirement was to be natural and sincere.”
Source: Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People
“Jesus called for nonviolent resistance to Rome and just distribution of land and food. He was crucified because he threatened Roman stability -- not as a sacrifice to God for humanity's sins.”
“Jesus called His followers to be a lot of things, but I have yet to find where He warned us to be safe.”
Source: Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption
“Jesus called us to abide in Him. The foundation of this reality means to talk with Him.”
“Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.”
Source: Letters Papers from Prison
“Jesus calls us to a holiness that is positive, generous and openhearted. It's a difficult, daring challenge - do we accept it?”
“Jesus calls us to be a light, not a wildfire.”
Source: American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church
“Jesus calls us to … “hate” money, give it away to the poor, simplify our lives, practice universal love and compassion, and focus our attention, time, and energy on the God of love and peace. Of course,, this either/or teaching can be applied to all the consequences of the idolatry of money. Jesus could just as easily say: “You cannot serve both God and country. You cannot serve both God and war. You cannot serve both God and nuclear weapons. You cannot serve both the God of life and peace and the false gods of death and war. It’s one or the other.”
Source: The Beatitudes of Peace: Meditations on the Beatitudes, Peacemaking & the Spiritual Life
“Jesus calls us to his rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.”
“Jesus came among us to show and teach the life for which we were made. He came very gently, opened access to the governance of God with him, and set afoot a conspiracy of freedom in truth among human beings. Having overcome death he remains among us. By relying on his word and presence we are enabled to reintegrate the little realm that makes up our life in the infinite rule of God. And that is the eternal kind of life. Caught up in his active rule, our deeds become an element in God’s eternal history. They are what God and we do together, making us part of his life and him a part of ours.”
Source: The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
“Jesus came down in flesh and solved both of them. So for me, my household - I just think that we would all be better off if we loved God and loved each other. At the end of the day you will be happy, happy, happy.”