#jesus

Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch. We experience his care. ↗

— Max Lucado

#christian-living #christianity #jesus #jesus-christ #experience

Herein lies the great difference between divine weakness and human weakness, the wounds of Christ and the wounds of man. Two human weaknesses only intensify each other. But human weakness plus Christ's weakness equals a supernatural strength. ↗

— Christian Wiman

#equality

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of God came not from exegetes, theologians, and spiritual writers, but from sitting still in the presence of the living Word and beseeching Him to help me understand with my head and heart His written Word. Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of *knowing* Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#gospel #grace #jesus-christ #word #experience

And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:19 New American Standard) ↗

— Anonymous

#faith #god #jesus-christ #faith

From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information. ↗

— Idries Shah

#dialogue #information #jesus #mohammed #religion

I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my heavenly Father nor a sappy spirituality that portrays God as such a benign teddy bear that there is no aberrant behavior or desire of mine that he will not condone. I want a relationship with the Abba of Jesus, who is infinitely compassionate with my brokenness and at the same time an awesome, incomprehensible, and unwieldy Mystery. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#faith #jesus #spiritual #faith

Eternity is not just looking to the future and our place with God in Heaven, but it is looking at our Eternity as if it were only moments away. ↗

— Beth Nimmo

#believe #inspiration #inspirational #jesus #jesus-christ

These early Saints were indeed homeless, but they were not hopeless. Their hearts were broken, but their spirits were strong. They had learned a profound and important lesson. They had learned that hope, with its attendant blessings of peace and joy, does not depend upon circumstance. They had discovered that the true source of hope is faith—faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and in His infinite Atonement, the one sure foundation upon which to build our lives. ↗

— Wilford W. Andersen

#hope #jesus-christ #lds #mormon #faith

Good works" are those works that have their origin in Jesus Christ--whose activity is released through your body, presented to Him as a living sacrifice by a faith that expresses total dependence, as opposed to the Adamic independence (Rom. 12:1, 2). ↗

— W. Ian Thomas

#dependence #faith #good-works #jesus-christ #living-sacrifice

I used to think that kid might become a preacher. Now I don't see how he's going to stay out of prison. Nobody in this family ever went to prison for sex crimes. He'd be the first." Yes," says Jesus, "you never know about these things." He and Grandpa are drinking cups of coffee and eating ginger snaps. Grandpa says, "When are you planning to return to earth?" Soon as I finish this coffee," say Jesus. "Pretty good, isn't it. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#religion #family