4,834 Quotes About Jesus

Maybe I can’t fight this battle because I was never supposed to in the first place. And maybe that’s because God wanted me to ‘sit this one out’ so that He could step up and ‘take this one out.

He told us we should always pray to God- talk to Him and all- wherever we were. He told us to think of Jesus as our buddy and all. He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car.

Once I stare into the face of God, I can stare into the face of anything.

Life offers us many paths, but there’s only One that doesn’t lead to the edge of a cliff.

Yet, the gospel offers hope for wandering hearts like ours. The Bible reveals that instead of judging all of humanity in one fell swoop —God visited us in our despair. The gospel is the story of God writing himself into human history. Of course, if God really does exist, then he has been a part of the story from the very beginning. Thus, the gospel is really not our introduction to God but rather our re-introduction.

This is specifically the point of the gospel: Jesus has taken all our sin. And faith in him cleanses us from all transgressions and all unrighteousness. Jesus bore the full weight of our sin in our place. As a substitute he took it all. He took it all out of the way. He nailed it all to his cross.

Apart from Christ there are no objective explanations, no certainty, no grace, and no ultimate meaning. He alone possesses the words of eternal life. For the first century disciples, and for us today, it is simply Jesus or Nothing.

The gospel does not imply that Jesus has risen and nothing else matters, but rather Jesus has risen and now everything matters. We can now live above the line of despair because the gospel is true.

If I’ve created this road, it’s likely that my agendas define it. And although I believe the ascent to be lofty, it’s anything but the ‘higher road’ that I pretend it to be. However, if God’s truth’s define it, there is no road that is higher and there’s no pretending that it’s not.