Judah Smith Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone.”
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“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.”
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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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“Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.”
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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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“Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance.”
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“Be the same person privately, publically and personally.”
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“It seemed too good to be true. That's grace.”
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“Grace is God-given power to live differently.”
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“Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.”
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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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“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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“The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.”
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“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.”
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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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“We are often harsher judges than God himself.”
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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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“That’s how we often react when grace comes at us. It’s awkward. God offers us something that’s too good to be true—unearned, unmerited, total forgiveness—and we stand there, stiff and uncomfortable, waiting for the embrace to stop so we can get back to the business of earning our way into heaven. We need to embrace grace. We need to learn how to hug back.”
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“We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.”
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“Jesus is not your accuser. He’s not your prosecutor. He’s not your judge. He’s your friend and your rescuer. Like Zacchaeus, just spend time with Jesus. Don’t hide from him in shame or reject him in self-righteousness. Don’t allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him for yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.”
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“But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.”
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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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“I’ve never met a person who exaggerated God’s love. Never. It’s impossible.”
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“God transforms us one area at a time.”
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“Sometimes God takes your life for some crazy twists and turns.”
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“The common denominator is that we all need help.”
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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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