Quotes about Jesus
In our culture of "seeker sensitivity" and radical inclusivity, the great temptation is to compromise the cost of discipleship in order to draw a larger crowd. With the most sincere hearts, we do not want to see anyone walk away from Jesus because of the discomfort of his cross, so we clip the claws on the Lion a little, we clean up a bit the bloody Passion we are called to follow.
— Shane Claiborne
Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God's blessing on the po0r rather than on the rich and would insist that it's not enough to just love your friends. I just began to wonder if anybody still believed Jesus meant those things he said.
— Shane Claiborne
So if the world hates us, we take courage that it hated Jesus first. If you're wondering whether you'll be safe, just look at what they did to Jesus and those who followed him. There are safer ways to live than by being a Christian.
— Shane Claiborne
I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said? .
— Shane Claiborne
Whether Jesus calms the storm or calms us in the storm, His love is the same, and His grace is enough.
— Sheila Walsh
There is nothing more certain in Time or Eternity than what Jesus Christ did on the Cross.
— Oswald Chambers
Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time - one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you... to be the centerpiece of everything you do.
— Joyce Meyer
Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.
— George Whitefield
With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Sept 15 1930 at the independence festival of the school of cretins…At the head of the table by the bowl of pomegranates, Senora Bartolome had put a note: Take only one, our Lord Jesus is watching!. A second note appeared at the foot of the table beside the sugared almonds: Take all you want, Jesus is looking at the pomegranates.
— Barbara Kingsolver
A disappointed-looking Jesus eyed her from the wall...Look, look, her steps called out, here is a red headed sinner on the move.
— Barbara Kingsolver
It's football. Take that out of high school, it's church with no Jesus. Who would even go?
— Barbara Kingsolver