J Quotes
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“Jesus never tried to hide his loneliness and dependence on other people. He chose his disciples not as servants but as friends. He shared moments of joy and grief with them, and asked for them in times of need. They became his family, his substitute mother and brothers and sisters. They gave up everything for him, as he had given up everything for them. He loved them, plain and simple.”
“Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“Jesus never wore a collar, built a basilica, or crowned a pope.”
Source: The Devil in the Holy City: How the Roman Catholic Church Corrupted Christianity
“Jesus no doubt fits his teaching into the late-Jewish messianic dogma. But he does not think dogmatically. He formulates no doctrine. He is far from judging any man's belief by reference to any standard of dogmatic correctness. Nowhere does he demand of his hearers that they shall sacrifice thinking to believing.”
Source: Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography: Postscript 1932-1949 by Everett Skillings
“Jesus no longer belongs to the past but lives in the present and is projected toward the future; Jesus is the everlasting "today" of God. This is how the newness of God appears to the women, the disciples, and all of us: as victory over sin, evil, and death - over everything that crushes life and makes it seem less human. And this is a message meant for me and for you, dear sister, you, dear brother. How often does Love have to tell us, "Why do you look for the living among the dead?" Our daily problems and worries can wrap us up in ourselves, in sadness and bitterness...and that is where death is. That is not the place to look for the One who is alive!”
Source: The Church of Mercy
“Jesus not only understood Himself to be the promised Messiah, He also says and does things throughout the Gospels that make it clear He understood Himself to be God incarnate.”
“Jesus of Nazareth became the Son of God from the moment Christ Jesus, the spiritual man within the man Jesus of Nazareth, defeated the nature of fallen Adam, His old man (which Jesus of Nazareth inherited from His parents).”
Source: Adam's Failure or God's Plan???
“Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable, wonderful short stories that entertained and clothed the moral precept in an eternal form. It is not sufficient to catch man's mind, you must also catch the imaginative faculties of his mind.”
“Jesus of Nazareth is so entirely one of them they can hardly find anything special about him at all. He fits right in with the messy busyness of everyday life.
And it is here, in their midst, with their routines of fish and wine and bread, that he proclaims the kingdom of heaven.
The gospel, Jesus teaches, is in the yeast, as a woman kneads it with her bare hands into the cool, pungent dough. It is in the soil, so warm and moist when freshly turned by muscular arms and backs. It is in the tiny seeds of mustard and wheat, painstakingly saved and dried from last season's harvest...
Jesus placed the gospel in these tactile things, with all the grit of life surrounding him, because it is through all this touching, tasting, and smelling that his own sheep- his beloved, hardworking, human flock- know. And it is through these most mundane, touchable, smellable, tasteable pieces of commonplace existence that he shows them, and us, to find God and know him.
Jesus delivered the good news in a rough, messy, hands-on package of donkeys and dusty roads, bleeding women and lepers, water from the well, and wine from the water. Holy work in the world has always been like this: messy, earthy, physical, touchable.”
Source: Long Days of Small Things: Motherhood as a Spiritual Discipline
“Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a new creation.”
“Jesus of Nazareth was a mortal man born with the Holy Spirit, who by the power of the indwelling Christ attained righteousness, overcame the sin nature He received from Mary and was restored to immortality after He ascended out of the grave of this world system.”
Source: The Mind Of The Spirit
“Jesus of Nazareth was born of a woman just like we were. He had a spiritual man, and He had a fallen body, which He received from His mother, and He had a carnal mind, which He received from His mother, which was completely paralyzed and under the authority of the Son of God in Him. What happened to Jesus? He integrated. His spiritual man integrated with His physical man—the complete reverse of the separation that occurs when your spiritual body goes one way and your physical body goes the other way.”
Source: Quantum Mechanics: The Science Of Spiritual Activity
“Jesus of Nazareth was the most famous human being who ever lived on this planet, and he had no infrastructure, and it's never been done. He had no government, no PR guy, no money, no structure. He had nothing, yet he became the most famous human being ever.”
“Jesus offered a single incentive to follow himto summarize his selling point: 'Follow me, and you might be happy-or you might not. Follow me, and you might be empowered-or you might not. Follow me, and you might have more friends-or you might not. Follow me, and you might have the answers-or you might not. Follow me, and you might be better off-or you might not. If you follow me, you may be worse off in every way you use to measure life. Follow me nevertheless. Because I have an offer that is worth giving up everything you have: you will learn to love well.'”
“Jesus offers a type of peace that the world cannot offer (John 14:27). The “peace” that the world gives is fleeting and never fully satisfies. The peace that Jesus gives is real and lasting. It’s everything you’ve been looking for. I can promise you that.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“Jesus offers himself as God's doorway into the life that is truly life. Confidence in him leads us today, as in other times, to become his apprentices in eternal living. "Those who come though me will be safe," he said. "They will go in and out and find all they need. I have come into their world that they may have life, and life to the fullest.”
“Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.”
Source: Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus
“Jesus on the Cross feels the whole weight of the evil, and with the force of God's love he conquers it, he defeats it with his resurrection.”
“Jesus on the cross feels the whole weight of the evil, and with the force of God's love he conquers it; he defeats it with his resurrection. This is the good that Jesus does for us on the throne of the cross. Christ's cross, embraced with love, never leads to sadness, but to joy, to the joy of having been saved and of doing a little of what he did on the day of his death.”
“Jesus on Twitter would have been a pretty amazing thing.”
“Jesus once caused a sick man to arise on the Sabbath and take up his bed, whereupon the pious of the land raised a great outcry. But Jesus answered with superior contempt that the Sabbath was there for the sake of man, not man for the sake of the Sabbath; consequently, man was also master over the Sabbath.”
“Jesus only spoke the words the Father told Him -- the Words of God, which bear the authority (are authored by) of God.”
Source: Kingdom Fundamentals: What the Kingdom of God Means and What it Means for You | A Thorough and Biblical Exposition of the Kingdom of Heaven as Preached by Jesus
“Jesus our Lord is Prophet, Priest, and King. The concept is not new, yet many preachers never preach it, and many congregations never hear it.”
“Jesus our Teacher and Guide loves truth and hates iniquity”
“Jesus paid a high price for your peace. Don't give it away.”
“Jesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our sin on Himself and gave His life on the cross so we could be forgiven and have new life in Him.”
“Jesus paid for our sins, so let's get our money's worth.”
Source: Conspiracies
“Jesus perfected his life and became our Christ. Priceless blood of a god was shed, and he became our Savior; his perfected life was given, and he became our Redeemer; his atonement for us made possible our return to our Heavenly Father, and yet how thoughtless, how unappreciative are most beneficiaries! Ingratitude is a sin of the ages.”
“Jesus picked up the conversation. "As the crowning glory of creation, you were made in Our image, unencumbered by structure and free to simply 'be' in relationship with Me and one another. If you had trully learned to regard one another's concerns as significant as your own, there would be no need for hierarchy.”
“Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.”
Source: The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus
“Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.”
“Jesus placed a great deal of importance on the hearing of the Word of God. In one form or another, the word hear is used thirteen times in Mark 4: 1–34. Obviously, our Lord was speaking, not about physical hearing, but about hearing with spiritual discernment. To “hear” the Word of God means to understand it and obey it (see James 1: 22–25).”
Source: Be Diligent
“Jesus plus nothing equals everything; everything minus Jesus equals nothing.”
“Jesus pointed to something that's irresistibly compelling because it's something immovably authentic.”
“Jesus poured out his soul in life before he poured it out unto death”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 32: Sermons 1877-1937
“Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart.”
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“Jesus' prayer for Peter shows the same pattern in sharp relief. Satan partially got his way with Peter, sifting him like wheat. But in answer to Jesus' prayer, the sifting rid Peter of his least attractive qualities: blustery self-confidence, a chip on his shoulder, a propensity to violence.”
Source: Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?
“Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?”
“Jesus prescribes a doctrinal test for false prophets because a behavioral test is unreliable.”
“Jesus probably studied this same information, in his youth. The apostle Paul probably studied this same information. How can I make such a bold assertion? Because, without this knowledge, much of the New Testament would make no sense.
Many of the idioms used in the New Testament are the result of lessons learned from this ancient Hebrew education system. Unfortunately, what was common in their day, has become forgotten in ours. For a Hebrew, math doesn’t get in the way. It blazes the way. Other languages are disconnected from this mathematical relationship . . . and it shows.”
Source: The Meaning of Hebrew Letters: A Hebrew Language Program For Christians
“Jesus proclaimed the favor of God in His very first sermon. Then He sealed the deal with His death and resurrection. Favor is a function of surrender. If we don't hold out on God, God will not hold out on us.”
Source: All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life
“Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God and what came was the Church.”
“Jesus proclaimed, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. .. He is saying that a whole new order is about to enter history, and if you want to be a part of it, you will need a change so fundamental that the Gospel of John would later refer to it as a "new birth". Being born again was not meant to be a private religious experience that is hard to communicate. .. but rather the prerequisite for joining a new and very public movement - the Jesus and kingdom of God movement.”
“Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“Jesus’ promise of resurrection of believers came with a demonstration. He did it and said His followers who die will do same. This is leadership! It’s based on truth!”
Source: Leaders' Watchwords
“Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.”
“Jesus, properly understood as shalom, coming into the world from the shalom community of the Trinity, is the intention of God’s once-and-for-all mission. That is, the mission of birthing and restoring shalom to the world is in Christ, by Christ, and for the honor of Christ.”
Source: Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision (Prophetic Christianity
“Jesus put his life on the line because He trusted that His Father had a greater plan.”
“Jesus raised the standard high so we would realize we couldn’t possibly do it without a savior.”
“Jesus receives us with all of our limitations, He bring us the mercy of the Father who forgives us, and transforms our heart, rendering it a new heart, capable of loving Him, who loved His own to the end (cf. John 13:1). And this love is manifested in his mercy. Jesus always forgives us.”