Grace is a person. And his name is Jesus.
JUDAH SMITHBut difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
More Judah Smith Quotes
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It’s interesting how people try to redefine God to their liking. They bring him down to their level so they can understand him, then they reject him because he is too much like them.
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Christianity is not about not swearing. It’s not about not having impure thoughts. Really, it’s not about not at all. Christianity is about Jesus.
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We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.
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Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.
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We are often harsher judges than God himself.
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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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Sometimes God takes your life for some crazy twists and turns.
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I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, “I want a Dad.” But you won’t abide in anyone.
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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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Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn’t logical.
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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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You don’t have to be good to be Jesus’s friend. You just have to be honest.
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Don’t cheapen Jesus’s sacrifice by trying to pay him back
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Responsibility is good for your soul.
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A moment with Jesus changed everything.
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Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.
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Nowhere 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.
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If you dont love, youve lost your distinction, definition, uniqueness, and identity.
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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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Once you savor God’s goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.
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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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I’ve never met a person who exaggerated God’s love. Never. It’s impossible.
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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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Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone.
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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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When you look in the eyes of grace, when you meet grace, when you embrace grace, when you see the nail prints in grace’s hands and the fire in his eyes, when you feel his relentless love for you – it will not motivate you to sin. It will motivate you to righteousness.
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