![The demands of Jesus are difficult because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time He asks us to regard these [acts of goodness] as something usual, ordinary.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-demands-of-jesus-are-difficult-because-they-require-us-to-do-something-extrao.jpg)
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today. Carson McCullers
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I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren't true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn't keep a lie for three weeks. You're telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible. Charles Colson
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Through Jesus, your past is explained, your present has a purpose, and your future is secure. What more could you really want in life? Jase Robertson
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In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.
jesus real responsibility
A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.
jesus real believe
One of the underlying things I like to do in books, is just say, stop and look at this for a moment. Not that you've got to believe that Jesus was real, or not to believe in God, but the belief that it isn't just happenstance. Dean Koontz
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Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me. Bob Dylan
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Any man having one drop of the seed of Cane in him Cannot hold the priesthood ... I will say it now in the name of Jesus Christ. I know it is true & they know it. The Negro cannot hold one particle of Government ... if any man mingles his seed with the seed of Cane the only way he Could get rid of it or have salvation would be to Come forward & have his head Cut off & spill his Blood upon the ground. It would also take the life of his Children. Brigham Young
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[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion. Orson Scott Card
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Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things. Thomas Merton
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No one is ever ordinary. Tanith Lee
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Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me Marilynne Robinson
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Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff. Nick Cave
ordinary committed persons
I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things. Iyanla Vanzant
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I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things. Rian Johnson
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It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary. Veronica Roth
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Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts. Ralph Goodale
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As directed in a letter on March 7 demanding payment of wages, arrangements have been made to ensure that all employees are paid wages owed them. Robert Jones
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People are very surprised that there is strong demand out there. There's still a strong housing market. Mirko Mikelic
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The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.
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This is not enough, the King has not addressed the minimum demands of the seven-parties alliance. Sushil Koirala
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This is not a populist demand for reduced compensation. This is a demand for more accountable compensation that in effect allows investors to relate pay to performance.