4,834 Quotes About Jesus

In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.

We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.

Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples - an ornery, undependable, and hopelessly flawed group of men - became drunk with the power of a gospel that offered free forgiveness to the worst sinners and traitors. Those men managed to change the world.

Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. Ask people what they must do to get to heaven and most reply, "Be good." Jesus' stories contradict that answer. All we must do is cry, "Help!"

A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.

The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.

Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.

Charles Williams has said of the Lord's Prayer, "No word in English carries a greater possibility of terror than the little word 'as' in that clause." What makes the 'as' so terrifying? The fact that Jesus plainly links our forgiven-ness by the Father with our forgiving-ness of fellow human beings. Jesus' next remark could not be more explicit: 'If you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.'

All of the images of Jesus and of the kingdom are small things: be a light in the darkness.