Quotes About Jesus

Peter looked at Jesus and said, 'Get away from me; I'm a sinful man.' A dumb guy from Galilee named Pete. Jesus made him into Bishop of Rome, chief of the apostles, the foundation stone. Christ built a Church on all that weakness. That's what hit me most of all, the weakness. Inside the weakness was a terrific secret.

Here's the rock, I said to myself. This man, this rough, humble, big man was just like me. Jesus looked at him and loved him. Peter looked at Jesus and said, Get away from me, I'm a sinful man. A dumb guy from Galilee named Pete. Jesus made him into Bishop of Rome, chief of the apostles, the foundation stone. Christ built a Church on all that weakness. That's what hit me most of all, the weakness. Inside the weakness was a terrific secret.

When everything is stripped down to its essential form, our faith is a belief in One who loves us; in Jesus, true God and true man, the only Christ, dwelling in the heart of His Church; in Him who was, who is, and who is to come—in You, O Lord! That is why our home is the universal Church, the throne on which you reign, a Church that is within time and yet outside of time.

Oh, how beautiful is the heart of Jesus! How beautiful that he loves us in our foolishness, he who suffered so much for us. Now our poor world grows indifferent to what he gave, though not all. We still find many who are not blind.

now the Spirit had come, and Mark's account of the baptism makes it abundantly clear that he sees Jesus as the Messianic Son and the Suffering Servant, equipped for his stupendous task with the Spirit of God promised for the end-time. The last days are no longer entirely in the future; in the person of Jesus the end has dawned.

For Paul, the will of God is known in essence in the obedient death of Jesus. In concrete and specific ways, however, God's will is known only when one offers oneself and one's body daily as a living sacrifice to one's rightful Lord:

This is the consistent witness of the New Testament: that the exalted Lord remains the crucified Jesus.20 And this one is "the true face of God."21 When this witness is neglected or forgotten, trouble follows swiftly.

faith is an initial and ongoing participation in the faith (i.e., faithful death) of Jesus.

Faith begins by acknowledging the faith of Jesus and dying with him by no longer relying on the law and the self for right relations with God. Faith continues by daily relying on Christ as the energizing force for all of life, and by allowing the faith of the Son of God, expressed in his self-giving, loving death, to reexpress itself in the life of the believer

Paul's act of faith has enabled him to share in the faith of Jesus, the faith that expressed itself in self-giving love.

It is the vision of a slaughtered Lamb, not a ferocious Lion. "The shock of this reversal," writes Richard Hays, "discloses the central mystery of the Apocalypse: God overcomes the world not through a show of force but through the suffering and death of Jesus, 'the faithful witness [martys]

What is a good definition of a disciple of Jesus? Do you agree with the statement, "All disciples are believers, but not all believers are disciples"? Why or why not? Are you a disciple of Jesus? Who is a disciple of Jesus today? Is discipleship optional?

And those of us with a strong burden for the purity of the Body must remember something essential: Jesus, not sin, must be our emphasis! Preachers who major on sin and minor on Jesus are like a bridegroom who takes his eyes off his precious bride as she walks down the aisle and focuses instead on a fly on her gown. We need to stay centered on our Savior and Lord!

It may be Jewish in the traditional sense to deny that Jesus is the Jewish Messiah, but that is only because that particular form of Jewishness deviated at some key points from the Hebrew Scriptures.

Here, then, is a simple rule of thumb for all of us to apply: If the words of Jesus challenge something I believe or challenge the way I live, the problem is not with Jesus. The problem is with me. Charles Spurgeon expressed this in broader, scriptural terms when he said, "If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching."31

We are accepted because of Jesus, and that's the ground of our security. Now it is our holy privilege to walk worthy of that high calling, drawing near to God in confidence, "with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water" (Heb. 10:22).

Then a white man raised his hand and said that, in those days, he had been involved in the Ku Klux Klan. Immediately after that, a black man sitting next to him—but a stranger to him—raised his hand and said that he had been a member of the Black Panthers! The two of them laughed and hugged while the audience cheered. That is how Jesus deals with racial hatred and prejudice, by changing the heart and bringing reconciliation, not by violent confrontation.

Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.

It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God.

Late afternoon he pulls up outside a white painted Baptist church with a wooden cross on the front wall above a sign that reads, JESUS DOESN'T NEED TO TWEET. pg 138

Why write a book advocating the idea that the Hebrew Bible is messianic?1 Since Jesus told his disciples, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms must be fulfilled" (Luke 24:44), it would seem obvious to affirm the messianic nature of the Hebrew Bible.

When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they're all about change.

There's a strangeness in these hills that tells you not to pray to Jesus, he's not lord of this ground; drive on down to Blythe if that how you pray, Jesus and McDonald's have franchises down there.

For when you are subject to the bishop as to Jesus Christ, it is evident to me that you are living not in accordance with human standards but in accordance with Jesus Christ, who died for us in order that by believing in his death you might escape death.