4,834 Quotes About Jesus

To embrace God does not involve some complex formula of endless dictates or the embracing of a rule mongering tyrant with a forever list of expectations. It simply involves saying “yes” to the gift of Christmas and “no” to every lesser gift simply because every other gift is lesser. And how simple is that?

Christmas is the beginning of a wonderfully tumultuous story of God coming on tip-toe in order to turn the world on it’s head.

The pit is of my own making.  The rescue is of God's love.  And the deliverance is my acceptance of both.

It’s a matter of time. That’s all it is. For God will allow mankind to fall to its own demise so that God can raise us up to His glory. For the farther the fall, the more miraculous the ascent.

God never delays. Rather, it is our ‘delayed’ willingness to embrace the genius of God as held against the ignorance of our shallowness, for such a crippling posture infuses a sense of delay directly into the middle of strategic perfection.

I might not believe in the possibilities, but that in no way diminishes the realities of the opportunities.

In no way do I want my stubbornness tamed. Rather, I want the whole of it brought into submission to God so that it might be doubled, even tripled in unchecked obedience to His service.

... shape ways of living consistent with faith in the God whom Jesus loved.

The word “impossible” is a word concocted by men so that we might have some tasteless verbiage to describe the way that we’ve surrendered to our limitations. But if we’re walking with God attempting to justify surrender is itself impossible, so maybe we should trash the verbiage and embrace our God.