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.
JUDAH SMITHIf you dont love, youve lost your distinction, definition, uniqueness, and identity.
More Judah Smith Quotes
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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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The common denominator is that we all need help.
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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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But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
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We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.
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Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn’t logical.
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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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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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The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.
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Grace is a person. And his name is Jesus.
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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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It is absolutely essential to have a living visible example of what a Christian ought to be.
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Sometimes God takes your life for some crazy twists and turns.
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A father doesn’t say, ‘Don’t go that way.’ He says, ‘come follow me.’
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Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone.
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It seemed too good to be true. That’s grace.
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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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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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God transforms us one area at a time.
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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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Indifference was our greatest enemy.
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You didnt access love, love accessed you!
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Our righteousness doesn’t depend on our present performance but on Jesus’ finished performance.
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Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.
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Rules are not bad, but they can’t save anyone.
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