Grace is God-given power to live differently.
JUDAH SMITHNowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn’t share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.
More Judah Smith Quotes
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A father doesn’t say, ‘Don’t go that way.’ He says, ‘come follow me.’
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Don’t cheapen Jesus’s sacrifice by trying to pay him back
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If we could get people to think about Jesus, we reasoned, Jesus was more than able to reveal himself to them.
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Grace is a person. And his name is Jesus.
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Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don’t focus on riles. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus.
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Be the same person privately, publically and personally.
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Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn’t logical.
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The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.
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The common denominator is that we all need help.
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Don’t you know you are the only Jesus many people will ever see? In compromising your lifestyle, you forfeit your capacity to accurately reflect God’s image and endanger an entire generation’s understanding of Jesus.
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Once you savor God’s goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.
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We are often harsher judges than God himself.
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It seemed too good to be true. That’s grace.
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You don’t have to be good to be Jesus’s friend. You just have to be honest.
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I’ve never met a person who exaggerated God’s love. Never. It’s impossible.
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Are you struggling with sin? You don’t need more will power. You need more of Jesus.
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Don’t allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.
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Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.
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God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.
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Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.
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Our righteousness doesn’t depend on our present performance but on Jesus’ finished performance.
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Indifference was our greatest enemy.
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We need to abandon our scale and adopt God’s because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.
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If you dont love, youve lost your distinction, definition, uniqueness, and identity.
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What an opportunity we have to be a community….A community where there are models.
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But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
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