Judah Smith Quotes

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

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

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

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

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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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God's love is so extravagant and so inexplicable that he loved us before we were us. He loved us before we existed. He knew many of us would reject him, hate him, curse him, rebel against him. Yet he chose to love us. God loves us because he is love.

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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.

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

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

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

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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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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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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.

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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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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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