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“Remember, we are all part of a great story that is really about God, not us. He is the number one character (read: winner), and we are all secondary (read: losers).”
― Losers Like Us
― Losers Like Us
“Peter—the best-known disciple, the one everyone has heard of, the one everyone relates to—is a screwup.”
― Losers Like Us
― Losers Like Us
“We are all losers, fallen and broken and in need of a Savior. And it is with losers that Jesus chose to identify because they (we) make up humanity’s largest demographic: one hundred percent.”
― Losers Like Us
― Losers Like Us
“The righteous man always resembles more a loser than a victor, for the Lord lets him be tested and assailed to his utmost limits as gold is tested in a furnace. Martin Luther”
― Losers Like Us
― Losers Like Us
“In Scripture Andrew, the shadow-dweller, does not have that effect on people. He is safe, trustworthy, approachable. People who want to see Jesus are attracted to Andrew. Wouldn’t it be great if the same could be said about each one of us?”
― Losers Like Us
― Losers Like Us
“I think he wanted to use Simon’s great passion to do great things. Simon is a reminder to us that Jesus does not want a soft, sanitized, well-mannered church, but a church that burns white-hot with the passion of God’s love.”
― Losers Like Us
― Losers Like Us
“It was through Peter that I first realized that the people in the Bible were actually losers, not spiritual giants.”
― Losers Like Us
― Losers Like Us
“It is Robert the Bruce, Wallace’s close associate and fellow freedom fighter. He has turned against Wallace to support the English. At the moment Wallace realizes that he has been betrayed, the light drains from his eyes. He rolls back on his haunches and lies down as if to die. The king’s guards quickly surround and arrest Wallace, who offers no resistance. The fight, the passion is gone. This is betrayal. This is what Jesus experienced.”
― Losers Like Us
― Losers Like Us
“And that leaves the fourth reason Jesus prefers to use losers for kingdom work: empathy. Losers have it; others don’t. Only losers, broken as they are, can speak to the pain and brokenness of other losers. They have earned that right. Let’s”
― Losers Like Us
― Losers Like Us
“At the cross, everything that stroked James’s ego—being called as a disciple, being elevated as one of the “top three,” and even imagining himself to be a great prophet like Elijah—died with Christ.”
― Losers Like Us
― Losers Like Us
“Pragmatists can overanalyze a situation until they are frozen in fear. Walking with Jesus requires a journey into the unknown, and that can be very scary for a pragmatist.”
― Losers Like Us
― Losers Like Us
“the qualifications for ministry are based solely on God’s work in a person’s life.”
― Losers Like Us
― Losers Like Us
