Judah Smith Quotes - Page 2

Don't cheapen Jesus's sacrifice by trying to pay him back

Sometimes we get way too fixated on how powerful sin is and how weak we are. We worry that if we relax for a second, we'll mess up royally and ruin everything. Ironically, our paranoia only serves to make us more conscious of our sinfulness.

I’ve never met a person who exaggerated God’s love. Never. It’s impossible.

Once you savor God's goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.

We are often harsher judges than God himself.

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.

God transforms us one area at a time.

Rules are not bad, but they can't save anyone.

A father doesn't say, 'Don't go that way.' He says, 'ome follow me.'

When we meet grace, it becomes the fuel of our faith. We pray, we read our Bibles, we worship and we live the purest lifestyle we can because we love a person.

We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.

The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.

Sometimes God takes your life for some crazy twists and turns.

I think people would be surprised to discover that their challenges and struggles are not too dissimilar to us, average ordinary people. We're all looking for essentially the same thing and I think that's faith and hope and love and meaning and of course satisfaction, peace, joy.

The common denominator is that we all need help.

If we could get people to think about Jesus, we reasoned, Jesus was more than able to reveal himself to them.

I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, "I want a Dad." But you won't abide in anyone.

Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don't focus on riles. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus.

We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.

You didnt access love, love accessed you!

Responsibility is good for your soul

Indifference was our greatest enemy.

But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.

What an opportunity we have to be a community....A community where there are models.

It is absolutely essential to have a living visible example of what a Christian ought to be.