Top Jesus Shock Quotes

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone...

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his lifeuntil he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

Most Christians believe that Jesus IS God, that Jesus is the same jealous and angry God that abhorred homosexuals and condemned them as "an abomination." He is the same deity that gave instructions on...

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

Not all who listen, believe. If you call the Gospel a crazy fairy tale, a far-too-good-to-be-true myth, an insane extension of wishful thinking, or even a blasphemous lie, I will respect you and argue...

No books is more fascinating than the Bible. And no books are less fascinating than most of our commentaries on the Bible. Nothing is more formidable and unconquerable than the Church Militant. But no...

No story is more beautiful than the Gospel, even though it is a story full of pain and nails and hate and blood and sin and murder and betrayal and forsakenness and unimaginable agony and death. It is...

If Christianity is true, this changes EVERYTHING. Christ's very last words to us in scripture were: Behold, I make all things new. (Rev. 21:5) I hope you remember that most moving line in the most mov...

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces nice people, not heroes...

It is just as crazy to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs d...

Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.