4,834 Quotes About Jesus

There is no depth that exceeds the reach of the God who is, at this very moment, seeking you out in the holes that you have dug for yourself.

I have sat in the impossible places that existed leagues beyond the reach of the prose of men, the touch of friends, and the encouragement of family. And in these horribly famished places where hope languished and desperation ruled, I eventually fell to exhaustion and laid my life in the frigid embrace of an awaiting death only to find that instead I had fallen into the warm hands of a loving God. And while these words are the prose of yet another man, the hands that they speak of are not.

We all need role models in different seasons, people we look to who bring encouragement for the journey. Every role model but One will fail. If we get up-close we will see that each one is imperfect, except the One perfect lamb who was crucified for our sins. He was the scapegoat. He was the rejected One.

Do you want to make the darkness around you seize up in fear? Pray. For prayer is the soul turning the dark of a long night into the light of a forever day.

It is at the moment that we began to pray that the darkness begins to die.

When I surrender to God all of the things in my life that I have surrendered to, I have surrendered to ever having to surrender again.

The Bible recounts the story of a king whose claim to a throne is recognized from the beginning, but whose majesty and authority are only fully apprehended in its closing pages, when we see him crowned and ruling at last. His faithful utterance from the throne is this: Behold, I am making all things new" (Rev 21:5).

Humanity is capable of unimaginable good. However, in the light of those who perpetrate evil, such good seems unimaginable. Therefore, maybe it’s time that we break ourselves free to ‘imagine,’ so that we can break our world free from those who perpetrate evil.

God sees the child He created in the fool that sees neither.