Joby Martin > Quotes

“The three most dangerous words a man can ever say are, “I got this.” There was only one man in the history of men who had it, and you’re not Him.”
― Joby Martin, Stand Firm and Act Like Men: Becoming the Man You Were Created to Be Instead of Who the World Says You Are

“How good is our Father that He would love you enough to walk you through some pain now so that you can ultimately know and trust Him better?”
― Joby Martin, If the Tomb Is Empty: Why the Resurrection Means Anything Is Possible

“Our problem is that by nature and nurture, we are sinners. We are snakebit and the venom runs in all our veins.”
― Joby Martin, Stand Firm and Act Like Men: Becoming the Man You Were Created to Be Instead of Who the World Says You Are

“God fashioned man by hand from the dust, then closed His lips over the man’s nostrils and breathed in the “ruach” of God. This Hebrew word means “breath, spirit, and life.” It means all three. Now step back a minute. When did the dust become a man? When God breathed into him.”
― Joby Martin, Stand Firm and Act Like Men: Becoming the Man You Were Created to Be Instead of Who the World Says You Are

“You see, everybody rejects God. We either reject God in the rebellion of the fruit, or we reject God in the religion of the fig leaf. We”
― Joby Martin, Stand Firm and Act Like Men: Becoming the Man You Were Created to Be Instead of Who the World Says You Are

“Rebellion, though it feels like freedom, always and only leads to death or bondage.”
― Joby Martin, Run Over By the Grace Train: How the Unstoppable Love of God Transforms Everything

“Here’s the point. Men, to stand up and act like a man, you must first bow down and surrender to Jesus. That’s where it starts.”
― Joby Martin, Stand Firm and Act Like Men: Becoming the Man You Were Created to Be Instead of Who the World Says You Are

“He can’t get baptized. Can’t take communion. Can’t serve anybody. Can’t confess his sins to a priest. Can’t do anything. Literally nothing. Except the only thing that matters: He believes Jesus is who He says He is and confesses it with his mouth.”
― Joby Martin, Run Over By the Grace Train: How the Unstoppable Love of God Transforms Everything

“Why? Because there is no glorification without a crucifixion.”
― Joby Martin, Stand Firm and Act Like Men: Becoming the Man You Were Created to Be Instead of Who the World Says You Are

“That word “image” in the original Hebrew is a masculine word. The word “likeness” is a feminine word. So he makes male and female. Don’t miss this. The God of this universe, and every other, made man and He made woman. To bear His image. Reflect Him. And He did so out of and through a limitless love.”
― Joby Martin, Stand Firm and Act Like Men: Becoming the Man You Were Created to Be Instead of Who the World Says You Are

“call these rule makers “church people.” You ever met some really religious people who can’t see the miracle because of the mat? I have met folks on a Sunday who watch videos of life-changing miracles, and they want to critique the manner of the miracle. Man, would you get serious? These religious folks couldn’t see past the law in order to see the lavish love of God. Let me say that again. They couldn’t see past the law in order to see the lavish love of God. They only see the mat. This is not new. Jesus faced the same limiting religiosity in Mark 7. The Pharisees are busting His chops as to why His disciples don’t wash their hands the way Hebrew tradition would mandate. It was a manmade tradition that occurs nowhere in the Word of God. Jesus shakes His head. In my mind, He’s thinking, Guys, would you get a grip. He then quotes Isaiah: “This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men” (Mark 7:6–7; based on Isa. 29:13). He’s telling them, “You have left the commandments of God and are now adhering to your own manmade commandments, as if it’s to my Word. And so, you’ve rejected God to establish your tradition.” This by definition is self-righteous.”
― Joby Martin, Anything Is Possible: How Nine Miracles of Jesus Reveal God's Love for You

“John chapter 4, verses 1–2: “Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but”
― Joby Martin, Run Over By the Grace Train: How the Unstoppable Love of God Transforms Everything

“Safe people make people feel safe, forgiven people forgive people, hurt people hurt people, and wounded people wound people.”
― Joby Martin, Run Over By the Grace Train: How the Unstoppable Love of God Transforms Everything

“hope that you have brothers or sisters in Christ who get so involved in your life that it stretches you. The kind of people that are more concerned about you than what you think about them.”
― Joby Martin, Anything Is Possible: How Nine Miracles of Jesus Reveal God's Love for You

“That He offered His only Son. The ESV translation says His one and only Son. It’s a tough translation. The Greek word is mono genus, like one gene. It literally means “of the same essence.” So “one and only” is not close enough. I have a “one and only” motorcycle, but it is not my mono genus motorcycle.”
― Joby Martin, If the Tomb Is Empty: Why the Resurrection Means Anything Is Possible

“Luke 15, verse 20. “And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.”
― Joby Martin, Run Over By the Grace Train: How the Unstoppable Love of God Transforms Everything

“In regards to eternity, maybe the most important words in the Bible are this, ‘It is finished.’ In our day-to-day life, maybe the most important words in the Bible are this, ‘It is written.’ You better have some ‘it is writtens’ in your life.”
― Joby Martin, Stand Firm and Act Like Men: Becoming the Man You Were Created to Be Instead of Who the World Says You Are

“Jesus is trying to teach us about God the Father. When the son returns home, the father sees him—from a long way off.”
― Joby Martin, Run Over By the Grace Train: How the Unstoppable Love of God Transforms Everything

“In short, take sin very seriously. If it is entangling you, get it off of you. Why? Because it’ll kill you.”
― Joby Martin, Stand Firm and Act Like Men: Becoming the Man You Were Created to Be Instead of Who the World Says You Are

“You can’t simultaneously look up at Christ and look down on anyone else.”
― Joby Martin, Run Over By the Grace Train: How the Unstoppable Love of God Transforms Everything