4,834 Quotes About Jesus

We have been granted an exclusive part in the greatest story ever told. And without a doubt, to walk away from that part would be to write greatest tragedy ever conceived.

I suppose that Christmas seems vexingly improbable in my mind because God did something for all of mankind that I’m too selfish to do even for myself. But isn’t that the exact reason why we need Christmas?

God's deposit is great inside u, the prophet only calls it out

We are deathly afraid of attempting great things, yet on the other hand we are also deathly afraid of missing great things. But the larger question in all of this might be, “Why is it that great things matter to us in the first place?” They matter because God made us for great things.

Christmas and hope are bound inseparable. But because we can’t separate ourselves from our need to deny such a truth, we’ve bound ourselves to live without hope.

Christmas subjugates the pessimism of my mind to the optimism of God’s heart. On second thought, it might be more accurate to say that it drowns it.

What further evidence do we need regarding our inability to save ourselves? For if we dare to take even the briefest look at the world around us, we’ll rather quickly see that we can’t even save ourselves from the evidence that we can’t save ourselves.

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

It seems to me that our incessant attempts to define God is far more about our desire to humanize Him and far less about our desire to understand Him. And if I persist in my attempts to do the former I will never achieve the latter which leaves me with neither.