Quotes about Matters

If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?

Tragically, we live in a day when offense to God doesn't matter nearly as much as offense to others.

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him; God is also great because nothing is too small. The Sovereign One cares about every minute detail of our lives.

My prayer is that God will do the same for you. I am convinced that Christ is always the initiator of matters concerning faith

Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, a descendant of Zerah son of Judah, was the king’s agent in every matter concerning the people.

But these matters of life and faith cannot be expressed in the tongues of modernity, for it is this very epistemology that has consigned us to death and despair.

to act on what you learn is all that really matters.

the reason Israel's story matters is that the creator of the world has chosen and called Israel to be the people through whom he will redeem the world.

But in first-century Christianity, what mattered was not people going from earth into God's kingdom in heaven. What mattered, and what Jesus taught his followers to pray, was that God's kingdom would come on earth as in heaven.

Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.”

what he is to the inscrutable God is what matters.

Beauty matters, dare I say, almost as much as spirituality and justice.5 Of course, if you have to choose between beautiful slavery and an ugly Exodus, you must go for the Exodus, but, as William Temple said in a different (though related) context, fortunately we don't have to make that choice.