14 Quotes by Tom Gilson

Jesus never walked away from a conversation saying, 'You know I could've said that better.' He got it right every single time.

Power and love meet in Jesus like they never have in any other person, or even any other character in literature.

Jesus never let his extraordinary powers control him. He never even use them for his own benefit. It was always for others.

His death on the cross, too, has often been called "the great equalizer," because he died for all, thus showing that we're all equally human with equal worth in God's eyes.

While skeptics just love pointing out that people die for lies all the time, we never find people dying for lies they made up themselves.

Jesus knew his mission required truly committed and trained followers, not casual bread-seekers.

In his passion he displays perfectly the paradox of power expressed in humility explainable only by his purpose, to die for our sins.

Everything Jesus did, he did brilliantly. Yet in almost every case, he did it in ways unlike the rest of us would.

It isn't just that he didn't have to die for our sins. He didn't even have to be born. He chose it freely, in willing obedience to the father.