Quotes About Jesus

To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing.

I try to help people see they're going to have these times in which they turn away, in which they deny Christ and their faith grows cold, their convictions weakened; but Jesus is waiting.

The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.

When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.

The Scriptures bear ample and continuous evidence that the faith of the resurrection of the body lies in the faith that Jesus Christ died and rose again.

At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection.

Dont' worry if you have haters; Jesus Christ was perfect, and they still hated him! What should we expect being imperfect?

Lent is the time of our lives where we are most especially called to reflect on our own lives and ask ourselves, how much do we thirst for an intimate relationship with our loving Jesus who is just waiting for us to respond to His love? It is the time that we must deeply ponder how much do we thirst for a life that is life-giving to others?

We are all living in the world, and we are part of what is going on all around us. We have things to do, people to see, places to visit. But if that is all we are doing, we are missing out on the point of living. The point is to respond to the heart of God and be conformed to the likeness of Jesus, who is the image of the invisible One. Our quest in this life is the ecstasy of communion that can never be broken. This is not religiosity. It is real spirituality, and there is a difference.

We may understand again, therefore, from this picture, that God's purpose in the cross of Jesus Christ was two-fold: first that we might be forgiven, being saved from sin's penalty because Christ died for us, and secondly, that we might be delivered from sin's power, because this old sinful nature, called the flesh, died with Him.

Although Jesus Christ was Himself the Creative Deity, by whom all things were made, as man He humbled Himself--set aside His divine prerogatives and walked this earth as man -- a perfect demonstration of what God intended man to be--the whole personality yielded to and occupied by God for Himself.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Jesus himself, even in his obscurity, dreaded the gathering of crowds, and where possible avoided them. Everything in Christianity that matters is from individual to individual; collectivities belong to the Devil, and so easily respond to his persuasion. The Devil is a demagogue and sloganeer; Jesus was, and is, concerned with individual souls, with the Living Word. What he gives us is truth carried on the wings of love, not slogans carried on the thrust of power.

Nicht ein Gesetz, sondern der lebendige Gott und der lebendige Mensch, wie er mir in Jesus Christus begegnet, ist Ursprung und Ziel meines Gewissens.

Christentum entspringt aus der Begegnung mit einem konkreten Menschen: Jesus.

Weil Jesus Christus die menschgewordene Liebe Gottes zu den Menschen ist, darum ist er nicht der Verkünder abstrakter ethischer Ideologien, sondern der konkrete Vollstrecker der Liebe Gottes.

Weil aber Jesus sich das Licht und alles andere die Finsternis nannte, darum haßten die Menschen dieses Licht und liebten ihre strahlende Finsternis.

Jesus ruft nicht zu einer neuen Religion, sondern zum Leben.

Jesus is parched, for [20]He meets only the ungrateful and indifferent among His disciples in the world, and among His own disciples, alas, He finds few hearts who surrender to Him without reservations, who understand the real tenderness of His infinite Love.

When I am preparing for Holy Communion, I picture my soul as a piece of land and I beg the Blessed Virgin to remove from it any rubbish that would prevent it [80r°] from being free; then I ask her to set up a huge tent worthy of heaven, adorning it with her own jewelry; finally, I invite all the angels and saints to come and conduct a magnificent concert there. It seems to me that when Jesus descends into my heart He is content to find Himself so well received and I, too, [5]am content.

I see that suffering alone gives birth to souls, and more than ever before these sublime words of Jesus unveil their depths to me: "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless the grain of [5]wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it will bring forth much fruit.

they are equally pleasing to Him, since all of them followed the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and since the Lord has said: "Tell the just man ALL is well."259 Yes, all is well when one seeks only the will [10]of Jesus,

from the moment I understood that it was impossible for me to do anything by myself, the task you imposed upon me no longer appeared difficult. I felt that the only thing necessary [10]was to unite myself more and more to Jesus and that "all things will be given to you besides.

We really have to ask for indispensable things, but when we do it with humility, we are not failing in the commandment of Jesus; on the contrary, we are acting like the poor who extend their hand [10] to receive what is necessary for them; if they are rebuked they are not surprised, as no one owes them anything.