Quotes about jesus
jesus firsts
Jesus [was the] first American Jerry Falwell
jesus mean one-day
The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.... J. R. R. Tolkien
jesus hero world
Our Lord Jesus Christ , my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants. Gerard Manley Hopkins
jesus church ministry
Remove the centrality-of-Jesus-Christ message from ministry and meetings, and you can forget church life or organic meetings. He must be the center of everything...not in lip service, but in the dynamic experiential whole. Gene Edwards
jesus law requirements
In both its precepts and penalty, the law of God in its most exacting requirements was fulfilled by Jesus. And He did this in our place as our representative and our substitute. Jerry Bridges
jesus thinking way
I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form. Huston Smith
jesus loves money worry
He hugged me and said, 'I don't have any money to give you,' ... I said, 'Don't worry about that. Jesus loves you, and I love you.'
jesus religion different
Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get him there by different routes. Richard Dawkins
jesus ascension resurrection
Presumably what happened to Jesus was what happens to all of us when we die. We decompose. Accounts of Jesus's resurrection and ascension are about as well-documented as Jack and the Beanstalk.
jesus blessed saint
If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would be the joyfulest tidings in the world. O that I might see His kingdom come! It is the characteristic of His saints to love His appearing, and to look for that blessed hope. "The Spirit and the bride say, Come." "Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Richard Baxter
jesus thinking needs
I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ. Willie Aames
jesus fruit christ
Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers. William S. Burroughs
jesus mean dollars
I don't mean to toot my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let's just say things would have turned out differently. Richard Gere
jesus kings prince-of-peace
So hold me Jesus, 'cause I'm shaking like a leaf. You have been King of my glory won't You be my Prince of Peace. Rich Mullins
jesus mean thinking
And I really suspect that of all the things we think we want to know, the only thing we really want to know is that we are loved. And if Jesus means anything, he means that you are loved. I hope you know that. And I hope you stop worrying about all the stuff you don't know, because I don't think it amounts to a hill of beans.
jesus cost assuming
Never forget what Jesus did for you. Never take lightly what it cost Him. And never assume that if it cost Him His very life, that it won't also cost you yours.
jesus military mean
I would hope that wherever I go I bring good news - that's what that word means, right? It began with the first followers of Jesus taking a Roman military propaganda term and co-opting it for their own subversive purposes, insisting that the world isn't made better through coercive military violence but through sacrificial love. How great is that!? Unfortunately this word has been hijacked in several years for other purposes but no worries, we're taking it back. Rob Bell
jesus stories world
I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.
jesus mean difficult-questions
Every generation has to ask difficult questions about what does it mean to follow Jesus.
jesus way argument
The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.
jesus taught-us heaven
It often appears that those who talk the most about going to heaven when you die talk the least about bringing heaven to earth right now, as Jesus taught us to pray: 'Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.' At the same time, it often appears that those who talk the most about relieving suffering now talk the least about heaven when we die.
jesus our-world joy
This is misguided and toxic and ultimately subverts the contagious spread of Jesus’ message of love, peace, forgiveness and joy that our world desperately needs to hear,
jesus believe people
What is God like? Because millions and millions of people were taught that the primary message - the center of the Gospel of Jesus - is that God is going to send you to hell, unless you believe in Jesus. And so, what gets, subtlely, sort of caught and taught is that Jesus rescues you from God. But what kind of God is that; that we would need to be rescued from this God? How could that God ever be good; how could that God ever be trusted? And how could that ever be good news.
jesus reality heaven
So this is reality, this forgiveness, this reconciliation, is true for everybody. Paul insisted that when Jesus died on the cross, he was reconciling "all things, in heaven and on earth, to God." All things, everywhere. ...This reality then isn't something we make come true about ourselves by doing something. It is already true. Our choice is to live in this new reality or cling to a reality of our own making.
jesus strong weak
Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.
jesus reality differences
And this reality extends beyond this life. Heaven is full of forgiven people. Hell is full of forgiven people. Heaven is full of people God loves, whom Jesus died for. Hell is full of forgiven people God loves, whom Jesus died for. The difference is how we choose to live, which story we choose to live in, which version of reality we trust.
jesus reality heaven
For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little of the life beyond this one…
jesus blood flesh
The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, Me too.
jesus godly messiah
If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus.
jesus struggle divorce
The peace we are offered is not a peace that is free from tragedy, illness, bankruptcy, divorce, depression, or heartache. It is peace rooted in the trust that the life Jesus gives us is deeper, wider, stronger, and more enduring than whatever our current circumstances are, because all we see is not all there is and the last word about us and our struggle has not yet been spoken.
jesus believe needs
I have been told that I need to believe in Jesus. Which is a good thing. But what I am learning is that Jesus believes in me.
jesus issues people
Missions then is less about the transportation of God from one place to another and more about the identification of a God who is already there [...] You see God where others don't. And then you point him out. So the issue isn't so much taking Jesus to people who don't have him, but going to a place and pointing out to the people the creative, life-giving God who is already present in their midst.
jesus names cages
Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain and name him, especially the one called "Christianity.