Judah Smith Quotes
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Our righteousness doesn't depend on our present performance but on Jesus' finished performance.
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A father doesn't say, 'Don't go that way.' He says, 'ome follow me.'
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The common denominator is that we all need help.
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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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Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.
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Don't cheapen Jesus's sacrifice by trying to pay him back
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I’ve never met a person who exaggerated God’s love. Never. It’s impossible.
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Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.
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A moment with Jesus changed everything.
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What an opportunity we have to be a community....A community where there are models.
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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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You don’t have to be good to be Jesus’s friend. You just have to be honest.
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Rules are not bad, but they can't save anyone.
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God transforms us one area at a time.
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Grace is God-given power to live differently.
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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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Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone.
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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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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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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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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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It is absolutely essential to have a living visible example of what a Christian ought to be.
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We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.
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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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Once you savor God's goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.
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Be the same person privately, publically and personally.
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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 our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn't logical.
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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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