Judah Smith famous quotes

Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone.
-- Judah Smith

#Jesus #Sin

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.
-- Judah Smith

#Powerful #Worry #Relax

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.
-- Judah Smith

#Evil #Levels #Sin

Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.
-- Judah Smith

#Jesus #Care #Scandal

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.
-- Judah Smith

#Knowing #Goal #Priorities

Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance.
-- Judah Smith

#Jesus #Righteousness #Performances

Be the same person privately, publically and personally.
-- Judah Smith

#Persons

It seemed too good to be true. That's grace.
-- Judah Smith

#Grace #Too Good To Be True #Being True

Grace is God-given power to live differently.
-- Judah Smith

#Grace #Given

Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.
-- Judah Smith

#Religious #Jesus #People

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 Smith

#People #Shapes #Opinion

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.
-- Judah Smith

#Eye #Fire #Hands

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

#Real #Issues #People

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.
-- Judah Smith

#Grace #Fuel #Praying

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.
-- Judah Smith

#Jesus #People #Understanding

We are often harsher judges than God himself.
-- Judah Smith

#Judging

You don’t have to be good to be Jesus’s friend. You just have to be honest.
-- Judah Smith

#Jesus #Honest #Being Honest

Grace is a person. And his name is Jesus.
-- Judah Smith

#Jesus #Names #Grace

A moment with Jesus changed everything.
-- Judah Smith

#Jesus #Moments #Changed

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.
-- Judah Smith

#Waiting #Heaven #Grace

We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.
-- Judah Smith

#Needs #Sin #Bigger

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.
-- Judah Smith

#Jesus #Self #People

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

#Choices #Hopelessness #Traps

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

#Jesus #Focus #Grace

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

#Impossible #Mets #Persons

Indifference was our greatest enemy.
-- Judah Smith

#Enemy #Indifference

God transforms us one area at a time.
-- Judah Smith

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

#Crazy #Twists #Sometimes

The common denominator is that we all need help.
-- Judah Smith

#Needs #Helping #Common

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 Smith

#People #Interesting #Trying

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

Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn't logical.
-- Judah Smith

#Grace #Brain #Enemy

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

#Sin #Goodness #Appeals

Responsibility is good for your soul
-- Judah Smith

#Responsibility #Soul #Your Soul

Are you struggling with sin? You don’t need more will power. You need more of Jesus.
-- Judah Smith

#Jesus #Struggle #Needs

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

#Jesus #Thinking #People

Sometimes we are outright rude when we interact with people. We meet a gay guy or a couple living together, and we think we have the obligation and right to warn them what God thinks about their sexuality on our first meeting. As if their sex life is the first thing on God's agenda.It's not.Love is. Grace is. Mercy is. Jesus is.
-- Judah Smith

#Jesus #Sex #Couple

You didnt access love, love accessed you!
-- Judah Smith

What we do on Sunday absolutely doesn't matter unless it meets us on Monday. Changes us on Monday. Transforms us on Monday.
-- Judah Smith

#Monday #Sunday #Matter

I think if Jesus had one shot at fixing us, He’d tell us how much He loves us. Jesus loves us right now, just as we are. He isn’t standing aloof, yelling at us to climb out of our pits and clean ourselves up so we can be worthy of Him. He is wading waist-deep into the muck of life, weeping with the broken, rescuing the lost, and healing the sick.
-- Judah Smith

#Jesus #Healing #Thinking

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

#People #Needs #Labels

If you dont love, youve lost your distinction, definition, uniqueness, and identity.
-- Judah Smith

#Love You #Identity #Definitions

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.
-- Judah Smith

#Jesus #Christianity #Swearing

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

#Jesus #Sacrifice #Trying