Quotes About Jesus

A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.

From doing to listening in the end, the most important thing is not to do things for people who are poor and in distress, but to enter into relationship with them, to be with them and help them find confidence in themselves and discover their own gifts. . . . The promise of Jesus is to help us discover that the poor are a source of life and not just objects of our charity.

Jesus does not impose or force anything on anyone. He gently invites each one of us to move forward. He says "come," come and see, come and live an experience of love, healing and a new inner freedom.

taken aback by the bookshops in all the cathedrals; visions of Jesus chasing the money changers out of the temple sprang to mind.

It is a privilege to help children learn the true meaning of Christmas, which is gratitude to God for sending us his son Jesus, and gaining from that gratitude a sense of love and generosity of spirit toward others,

legislators organized by Coe and subsequently won the good graces of a far more powerful group of American congressmen, who helped pour a billion dollars in aid into Brazil's long dictatorship of the generals.30 "I never invite them," Coe said in 2007 of his dictator friends. "They come to me. And I do what Jesus did: I don't turn my back to any one. You know, the Bible is full of mass murderers."31

Jesus loved the will of His Father. He embraced the limitations, the necessities, the conditions, the very chains of His humanity as He walked and worked here on earth, fulfilling moment by moment His divine commission and the stern demands of His incarnation. Never was there a word or even a look of complaint.

He Himself has been praying for me all along: "He is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them" (Heb. 7:25, NIV).

Jesus comes into our lives in these places of need. And if we recognize Him because of our need, then we can receive whatever it is that He is prepared to offer us whether it's the grace of forgiveness or the patience to wait for the answer to that prayer or healing or serenity in the midst of the worst times of your life. Whatever it is, you can receive it and say, "Thank You, Lord.

Although I have not found intellectual satisfaction, I have found peace. The answer I say to you is not an explanation but a person, Jesus Christ, my Lord and my God.

We need Jesus Christ, our refuge, our fortress, the stronghold of my life. It takes desolation to teach us our need of Him.

She tries to be a good Christian. Jesus went around forgiving everyone, though her personal belief is that he went a little too far with that business.

God values Christian character, which shines in positive, outward conduct. Fashion your heart after Jesus.

Faith in Jesus is the most important event in the history of a child's life.

Our conduct is an advertisement for or against Jesus Christ. That's why unity in the body of Christ is so important.

No matter what you're facing, embrace life in trust and contentment based on your faith in Jesus.

When all is said and done, one of our rewards may be praise, but the greater reward is being faithful to follow our Lor and Savior, Jesus Christ.

No I have not asked Jesus to join us. All I hope and long for now is that He will ask me to join Him.

Jesus? she breathed. Into Jesus' face came the old smle with which he had so often looked at the children who crowded around him. It is--all right? she whispered. It is all right, Jesus answered. Do not be afraid.

That's when I understood deeply that with all my studies of other religions, basically I really am devoted to Jesus. I am not a church-going Christian, not a conventional one by most standards, but in my heart, Jesus is my guru.

Jesus appears to have walked unstressed and unhurried. His peaceful pace seems to imply that he measured himself not by where he was going and how fast he could get there but by whom he was following and how closely they walked together.

Deserts unclutter the soul. The hot desert sun vaporizes all manner of luxuries. Then the cold, shelterless nights expose the essential guts of life. I needed to eat, to sleep, to be protected, and to not be alone. Lent had come half a year early. God asked me to fast mental and physical strength. He invited me into holy weakness. I found Jesus there.

Jesus lived a truly uncluttered life and died a focused, eternally fruitful death. How I long to follow His example.

From John's perspective, the true value of people seeing him was that people would then be positioned to see through him and gaze at Jesus. By