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.
JUDAH SMITHResponsibility is good for your soul.
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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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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A father doesn’t say, ‘Don’t go that way.’ He says, ‘come follow me.’
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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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We are often harsher judges than God himself.
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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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Don’t cheapen Jesus’s sacrifice by trying to pay him back
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Rules are not bad, but they can’t save anyone.
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But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
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It is absolutely essential to have a living visible example of what a Christian ought to be.
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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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Once you savor God’s goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.
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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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What an opportunity we have to be a community….A community where there are models.
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We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.
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