20 Quotes by Jefferson Bethke

Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy.

While it is true after Genesis 3 we are sinners, we are still made in the image of God, no matter how broken that image is. Beauty is more primal than the curse; and we were children before we were runaways.

This is why the Bible doesn’t end how it starts. It starts in a garden but ends in a city. It starts with Law, but ends with intimacy. It starts with God in a tent, but ends with God in us.

The more I read, the more I felt the Bible looked a lot more like the movie 300 than the movie Pleasantville.

God is constant. Always forgiving. Always loving. Never changing.

My generation is the most fatherless and insecure generation that's ever lived, and we are willing to sacrifice everything if we just can be told we are loved.If only we knew just how loved we really are.

Trying to be good enough to earn heaven is like trying to jump to Hawaii from the coast of California. Everyone looks like an idiot, some drown, some get three feet, some get ten feet, but no one even gets close to Hawaii.

The biggest difference between between religious people and gospel-loving people is that religious people see certain people as the enemies, when Jesus-followers see sin as the enemy.

Our job as Christians is to stick so close to Jesus that when people are around us, they sense him.