89 Quotes by Judah Smith

Sometimes we get way too fixated on how powerful sin is and how weak we are. We worry that if we relax for a second, we’ll mess up royally and ruin everything. Ironically, our paranoia only serves to make us more conscious of our sinfulness.

It’s interesting how people try to redefine God to their liking. They bring him down to their level so they can understand him, then they reject him because he is too much like them.

Storms happen. I can’t promise that you won’t get wet. I can’t promise that you won’t go through tough times. But I can promise that Jesus is bigger than your storm and that he is with you. The storm will end. The wind will cease. The waves will be still. Jesus will see you safely through to the other side.

I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, “I want a Dad.” But you won’t abide in anyone.

Jesus is giving us an invitation to life. The invitation is to truly live: not just to exist, not just to breathe, but to live life as it was meant to be lived. But his invitation to this existence is paradoxical. God’s invitation to life comes through death.

I can imagine myself in her place: trapped by a sordid past, terribly alone, defenseless before a crowd of jeering judges who hold my life in their hands. And then, when hope is lost, the one who truly has the right to condemn me looks at me. In his eyes I read something completely unexpected. Compassion.

A father doesn’t say, ‘Don’t go that way.’ He says, ‘ome follow me.’

God is with us, loves us, and wants us to be fulfilled and satisfied. God wants our lives to be awesome in every way.