Top 56 Judah Smith Quotes
#1. It seemed too good to be true. That's grace.
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#2. We are often harsher judges than God himself.
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#3. 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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#4. Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone.
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#5. When it comes to sin, the only one who has a right to condemn others is Jesus. And he refused.
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#6. 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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#7. You don't have to be good to be Jesus's friend. You just have to be honest.
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#8. No sinner is irreparable or irredeemable. No sin is so great that the blood of Jesus cannot cover it. His love is so deep and wide that he can, in one moment of our faith, forgive our past, present, and future sins. Sin is simply not a problem for God.
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#9. Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn't logical.
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#10. I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, "I want a Dad." But you won't abide in anyone.
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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance.
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#14. Once you savor God's goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.
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#15. Worry is useless. Worry saps our strength and steals our focus. It causes us to be more awestruck and dumbfounded by storms than by the one who silences storms with a word.
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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. It takes courage and humility to recognize we are as messed up as the drug addict next door, and many of us never get that honest.
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#19. Grace is a person. And his name is Jesus.
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#20. But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
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#21. Jesus didn't care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.
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#23. Sometimes God takes your life for some crazy twists and turns.
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#24. A moment with Jesus changed everything.
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#25. You didnt access love, love accessed you!
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#26. 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.
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#27. Rules are not bad, but they can't save anyone.
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#28. If you dont love, youve lost your distinction, definition, uniqueness, and identity.
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#29. It is absolutely essential to have a living visible example of what a Christian ought to be.
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#30. Are you struggling with sin? You don't need more will power. You need more of Jesus.
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#31. Notorious sinners didn't kill Jesus. Religious people did.
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#32. I've never met a person who exaggerated God's love. Never. It's impossible.
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#33. 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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#34. The common denominator is that we all need help.
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#35. 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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#36. Be the same person privately, publically and personally.
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#37. 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.
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#38. A father doesn't say, 'Don't go that way.' He says, 'ome follow me.'
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#39. 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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#40. 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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#42. 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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#43. What we do on Sunday absolutely doesn't matter unless it meets us on Monday. Changes us on Monday. Transforms us on Monday.
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#44. Religion says that obedience brings acceptance. The gospel teaches the opposite: acceptance brings obedience.
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#45. Rules are not proof of our spirituality. If anything, they are proof of our sinfulness, a reminder that we have a tendency toward wrongdoing and that we need help.
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#47. 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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#48. Don't cheapen Jesus's sacrifice by trying to pay him back
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#49. Grace is God-given power to live differently.
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#50. No sooner do I conquer a bad habit than I become the biggest critic of anyone who still does what I just stopped doing.
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#51. 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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#52. We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.
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#53. What an opportunity we have to be a community ... A community where there are models.
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#54. The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.
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#55. Sometimes I crack myself up; but laughter is biblical, so I feel almost holy laughing at my own jokes.
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#56. But freedom starts with honesty. We aren't doing ourselves any favors by defining our- selves as good and others as bad. Let's just agree that we all need help, that we are all in this together.
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