Quotes about Living

Jesus told his disciples that if they leveraged everything to seek the kingdom by following him, everything else would be thrown in as well! In other words, the secret to living the good life, to having it all, is seeking God's kingdom above everything else and becoming an apprentice of Jesus.

Archie's been living off the fat of the land. I'm here to give him his pension plan.

We spend more time learning how to make a living than we do learning to make a life.

What the Gospels offer is not a philosophical explanation of evil—what it is or why it's there—but the story of an event in which the living God deals with it

The good news that Jesus announced, like the good news that his first followers announced about him, was not a piece of advice, however good. It was about something that had happened, about something that would happen as a result, and about the new moment between those two, the moment in which people were in fact living, whether they realized it or not.

Jesus is a walking, living, breathing Temple, he is also the walking, celebrating, victorious sabbath.

When Jesus gave his disciples this prayer, he was giving them part of his own breath, his own life, his own prayer. The prayer is actually a distillation of his own sense of vocation, his own understanding of his Father's purposes. If we are truly to enter into it and make it our own, it can only be if we first understand how he set about living the Kingdom himself.

As C. S. Lewis said in a famous lecture, next to the sacrament itself your Christian neighbor is the holiest object ever presented to your sight, because in him or her the living Christ is truly present.3

The Psalms are the steady, sustained subcurrent of healthy Christian living.

it is possible to allow the study of the text, and of different interpretations of the text, to become a substitute for allowing the text to bring us into the presence of the living God.

Learning how to think as the Messiah had thought, Paul insisted, was the only way to radical unity in the church, and it was also the secret of how to live as "pure and spotless children of God in the middle of a twisted and depraved generation

Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.