8 Quotes by Brant Hansen

Offense obscures our vision. Removing offense enables us to see people in wonderful, new ways.

One of the hardest-to-swallow, most countercultural, counter intuitive implications of the gospel is that bearing up under a difficult burden with patient perseverance is a good thing.

Forgive in the big things and the small things. Don’t take offense.

He realized he couldn't be a believer in Jesus and remain angry with his family's killers. He realized it was simply incompatible.

Loving others means divesting ourselves of our status. We're not being naive in doing it. We've surrendered it for good reason, believing that there is something better in exchange.

We can play pretend and try to set up an aquarium-type existence, devoid of interaction with anything or anyone who might challenge or upset us, but that's not the world Jesus came to save.

It takes childlike humility to embrace the love of God, to realize how "unfair" it is, and then quickly add, "but I'll take it!

It’s true, though, others won’t understand me. I know that. I’m still an alien in the American Christian subculture.Each evening I retreat from it, and I go straight to the Gospels.It's not out of duty that I read about Jesus; it's a respite.