J Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with J. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Jesus doesn't care if you feel guilty. Jesus wants you to change.”
“Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it upon himself. Jesus doesn't explain why there is suffering, illness, and death in the world. He brings healing and hope. He doesn't allow the problem of evil to be the subject of a seminar. He allows evil to do its worst to him. He exhausts it, drains its power, and emerges with new life.”
“Jesus doesn't just want songs. He wants justice for the people on planet Earth.”
“Jesus doesn't need you to make him palatable...he needs you to be faithful.”
“Jesus doesn't say, "The religion founded in my name is the way, the truth, and the life, [and] what people say about me is the way." "Our way of worship, the Christian structure, is not the way," [he would say,] "I am. I am. If you want to know what life is all about, what it's supposed to be, where it's supposed to go, where it's supposed to derive its strength from, don't look at anything people say about me. Don't look at the faith that's been created. Look at my life, which is a life ultimately of sacrificial love."”
“Jesus doesn’t dominate the other, avoid the other, colonize the other, intimidate the other, demonize the other, or marginalize the other. He incarnates into the other, joins the other in solidarity, protects the other, listens to the other, serves the other, even lays down his life for the other.”
“Jesus doesn’t take sides; He takes over.”
“Jesus, Dolores, you've got to get yourself together. You've got responsibilities. Think about those sometimes - okay? - and get your fucking head right."
Those were the last words his wife heard from him. He'd closed the door and walked down the stairs, paused on the last step. He thought of going back. He thought of going back up the stairs and into the apartment and somehow making it right. Or, if not right, at least softer.
Softer. That would have been nice.”
Source: Shutter Island
“Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Jesus drank a cup of wrath without mercy, that we might drink a cup of mercy without wrath.”
“Jesus: Enough with the rebuking!”
Source: Passion Play: Written, Produced & Directed by Jesus H. Christ
“Jesus entered as he did, where he did, doing what he did because God needed us to finally comprehend the truth: God is not a sky king who heads an empire. God is the love that gives itself away for the sake of more love.”
Source: The Church Cracked Open: Disruption, Decline, and New Hope for Beloved Community
“Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail to honor the people around us as the beautiful image-bearing creatures that they are.”
Source: Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up
“Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess Jesus into existence through their constant prophecies”
“Jesus existed, and those vocal persons who deny it do so not because they have considered the evidence with the dispassionate eye of the historian, but because they have some other agenda that this denial serves.”
Source: Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth
“Jesus experienced homelessness at Christmas so that we could experience a love we could never lose.”
“Jesus explains that the church is like a hospital. But this hospital doesn't want to let any sick people in. I feel like people like that have had to lead these secret lives because they're so afraid of how people will react. I think we have to get to the point where we're restoring people and caring for them, and when they fall, we pick them up. My thing is that we need to love this guy and pray for him and his family and open our homes to him if need be. I don't know if he wants to come sleep on my futon here in Brooklyn, but he's welcome to if he'd like.”
“Jesus expressed intense anger toward those who where immoral, such as the self-righteous Pharisees, but he never suggested that they were demonized. Toward the demonized, however, he never expressed anger; rather he exhibited only compassion. As Langton notes, "Pity rather than anger characterizes the attitude of Jesus toward the possessed...He treats them as if they were the victims of an involuntary possession." Indeed, he treats them as though they are casualties of war. For, in his view, this is precisely what they are.”
Source: God at War: The Bible & Spiritual Conflict
“Jesus' final act of public ministry was to address the needs of a widow, his own mother, whose eldest son was dying before her very eyes.”
Source: Half the Church: Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women
“Jesus first of all, loves His Father in heaven and would never compromise the message that sinners must be delivered or be damned. That is the reason Jesus came to earth-to save sinners.”
“Jesus flips the tables.
A poor man spends day and night praying in front of a golden statue. He begs that his family be freed of poverty. The priest says to him to pay his tithe on the way out.
Jesus flips the tables.
A poor man goes to a place he calls home. He invites his neighbours, friends and family. He opens the good book and prays direct to God.
Jesus flips the tables.”
“Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.”
“Jesus fought Satan in 'hand to hand combat' . . . 'you need to protect this victory.'”
“Jesus-fucking-Christ, people are gullible. I really don’t know how we’ve survived on this planet for so long. We’re evolution’s version of that one mistake we all make that haunts us for the rest of our lives.
You know what I’m talking about. You’re going along minding your own business, and then BAM! Suddenly you’re in the middle of the biggest mistake of your life that everyone will bring up at the family Christmas dinner every year for the rest of time because it’s the funniest shit they ever heard, and it’ll embarrass you every time, but eventually you’ll be able to laugh too.
That’s what humans are to evolution, I’m pretty sure.
It’s embarrassing how dumb we are when we get in groups.”
Source: The Trouble With Trying to Save an Assassin
“Jesus," Gansey said. "I can't take this."
"Worry is weakness, king," Gwenllian piped up.
Silence.
Then a hoarse, cutoff shout in an unrecognizable voice. Adam, or Ronan, or something else entirely.
Gansey made a terrible sound and rested his forehead against the wall. Blue's hand shot out to grab his, tightly. She couldn't bear it, either, but there was nothing to do but bear it. Inside her, this new, black fear grew, the knowledge that death happened in a moment and to anyone. Ronan and Adam could be dead and there would be no earthquake. There would be no fanfare.”
Source: Blue Lily, Lily Blue
“Jesus gave gift to men so that they can function in their calling.”
“Jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe. We're not redeemed by silver or gold. Jesus paid for it with his blood.”
Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ
“Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.”
“Jesus gave up His life to God, and by this He taught us that the only thing that life is worth living for is to give it back to God, even unto death.”
“Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism - Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet.”
Source: Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage
“Jesus gave us the victory with which He overcame Satan, and commissioned us to cast out devils in His Name.”
“Jesus, Georgia. I'm going to fucking come before I'm even inside you.”
Source: Light in Mourning
“Jesus give me equanimity;
To be rooted in Your sublimity.”
Source: Fractures of Gold
“Jesus gives us hope because He keeps us company, has a vision and knows the way we should go.”
“Jesus gives us the gift of the Holy Spirit, yet when the Spirit comes, He is loaded with packages! He desires to release much more in us and through us than we could ever imagine. These gifts are given for delivery, not for accumulation. We receive them to pass them on to others.”
Source: Explaining the Trinity
“Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.”
“Jesus growls, ‘Man is his own worst enemy! Nothing but a cannibal eating his own head; a volatile, self-obsessed hybrid, that never should’ve been allowed to evolve. Let them swallow each other up!”
Source: Finding Jesus
“Jesus H. Christ. It's like drowning in a bath of hormones.”
Source: Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
“Jesus H. Christ. I have new respect for the female of the species suddenly.”
Source: Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series
“Jesus had a humble heart. If He abides in us, pride will never dominate our lives.”
“Jesus had a tough life. I read about that guy. Jesus is the only guy that ever came back from the dead that didn't scare the F- out of everybody!”
“Jesus had no money,
but was the richest of all time;
had no education,
but was the smartest of all time;
had no titles,
but was the noblest of all time;
had no pedigree,
but was the finest of all time;
and had no power,
but was the greatest of all time.”
“Jesus had no money,
but was the richest of all time;
had no education,
but was the smartest of all time;
had no titles,
but was the noblest of all time;
had no pedigree,
but was the finest of all time;
and had no power,
but was the strongest of all time.
He had no wife,
but was the meekest husband of all time;
had no children,
but was the gentlest father of all time;
had no teacher,
but was the humblest pupil of all time;
had no schooling,
but was the wisest teacher of all time;
and had no temple,
but was the godliest rabbi of all time.
He had no sword,
but was the bravest warrior of all time;
had no boat,
but was the shrewdest fisherman of all time;
had no winery,
but was the aptest winemaker of all time;
had no mentor,
but was the nicest counselor of all time;
and had no pen,
but was the greatest author of all time.
He had no seminary,
but was the sharpest theologian of all time;
had no university,
but was the brightest professor of all time;
had no degree,
but was the ablest doctor of all time;
had no wealth,
but was the biggest philanthropist of all time;
and had no stage,
but was the grandest entertainer of all time.”
“Jesus had over death and we don't have to worry about death. We don't have to worry about where our loved ones are going if they know Jesus.”
“Jesus had the ministry of light (knowledge).”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“Jesus has a special, compassionate concern for those who are broken and needy.”
“Jesus has been in my room. He has taken my hand and told me, No, Not now. I have other things for you to do.”
“Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hangs upon the cross! This is the greatest sight you will ever see. Son of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God. Oh, the glory of that sight! The innocent punished! The Holy One condemned! The Ever-blessed made a curse! The infinitely glorious put to a shameful death! The more I look at the sufferings of the Son of God, the more sure I am that they must meet my case. Why did He suffer, if not to turn aside the penalty from us? If, then, He turned it aside by His death, it is turned aside, and those who believe in Him need not fear it.”
Source: All of Grace
“Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hang upon the cross!”
Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon
“Jesus has chosen, even in a resurrected, otherwise perfected body, to retain for the benefit of His disciples the wounds in His hands and in His feet and in His side-signs, if you will, that painful things happen even to the pure and the perfect; signs, if you will, that pain in this world is not evidence that God doesn't love you; signs, if you will, that problems pass and happiness can be ours.”