Tina > Tina's Quotes

“We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.”
― Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind

“The same hand that stilled the seas stills your guilt.
The same hand that cleansed the Temple cleanses your heart.
The hand is the hand of God.
The nail is the nail of God.
And as the hands of Jesus opened for the nail, the doors of heaven opened for you.”
― Max Lucado, He Chose the Nails: What God Did to Win Your Heart

“But here the correlation with Beauty and the Beast ends. In the fable, the beauty kisses the beast. In the Bible, the beauty does much more. He becomes the beast so the beast can become the beauty. Jesus changes places with us. We, like Adam, were under a curse, but Jesus "changed places with us and put himself under that curse" (Gal. 3:13).”
― Max Lucado, He Chose the Nails: What God Did to Win Your Heart

“The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.”
― Max Lucado, He Chose the Nails: What God Did to Win Your Heart