Judah Smith > Quotes

“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.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“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.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“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.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“It seemed too good to be true. That's grace.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“Grace is a person. And his name is Jesus.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“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.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is ______: Find a New Way to Be Human

“The common denominator is that we all need help.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“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.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“We are often harsher judges than God himself.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don't focus on riles. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“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.”
― Judah Smith

“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.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is ______: Find a New Way to Be Human

“Indifference was our greatest enemy.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“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.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“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.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“No sooner do I conquer a bad habit than I become the biggest critic of anyone who still does what I just stopped doing.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“Grace is God-given power to live differently.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is ______: Find a New Way to Be Human

“When it comes to sin, the only one who has a right to condemn others is Jesus. And he refused.”
― Judah Smith

“You don’t have to be good to be Jesus’s friend. You just have to be honest.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is ______: Find a New Way to Be Human

“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.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“A moment with Jesus changed everything.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“I can imagine myself in her place: trapped by a sordid past, terribly alone, defenseless before a crowd of jeering judges who hold my life in their hands. And then, when hope is lost, the one who truly has the right to condemn me looks at me. In his eyes I read something completely unexpected. Compassion.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is ______: Find a New Way to Be Human

“God transforms us one area at a time.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn't logical.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is For You

“We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human