Christianity Quote by Jen Hatmaker Download Open image “The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.” — Jen Hatmaker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Christianity Self Soil Toxic
As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige, and self-preservation,… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
The Gospel is not about going from bad to good, it's about going from dead to alive! — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“The gospel can lift this destroying burden from the mind, give beauty for ashes, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. But unless the weight of the burden is felt the gospel can mean nothing to the man; and until he sees a vision of God high and lifted up, there will be no woe and no… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share
“The Gospel is not an old, old story, freshly told. It is a fire in the Spirit, fed by the flame of Immortal Love;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When God appoints the gospel of his Son as the universal remedy for the guilt and corruption of mankind, and we diminish that, the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The gospel confronts us with the hopelessness of our sinful condition. But we don't like what we see of ourselves in the gospel, so… — David Platt Copy Share Image
The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Displace the gospel from the center, and studiousness in the Scriptures soon becomes a massive self-salvation project.” — David Mathis Copy Share Image
If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel. The gospel is the life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...when the exhaustive exegesis of God's Word doesn't create people transformed into the image of Jesus, we have missed the forest for the trees.” — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
We cannot carry the gospel to the poor and lowly while emulating the practices of the rich and powerful. We’ve been invited into a… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“Desperately wanting God's kingdom to come, we lead with the law, like a sixteen-year-old girl who thought a Bible on a desk corner would… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“Simply speaking truth out loud is healing in and of itself. When people courageously voice a true, hard thing, they’ve already stolen some of its dark power before we offer one word to fix it. Theology backs that up. Of our own Jesus, Scripture says, “In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share
“Jesus operates beyond the tidy boundaries of good behavior. Rather than simply enforce His rules, we should show our kids His kingdom. That’s where… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“Flatten your feet, because nothing in your life is too dead for resurrection.” — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s my tattoos talking, but this is my favorite missional mandate. Because the perception of Christians as self-righteous segregationists is so prevailing, it is such a pleasure to represent a new expression of faith. For me this is not hard, this is not work, this is not a sacrifice, this is not uncomfortable. A missional approach to a disoriented… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share
“It is incredibly tempting to disparage people who didn’t “change” with us. I have criticized the words of others when the same words came out of my own mouth just two years earlier, which is incredibly un-self-aware. Human insecurity wants everyone right where we are, in the same head space at the same time. We want to progress (and digress)… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share
“We don't see the New Testament church hoarding the feast for themselves, gorging, getting fatter and fatter and asking for more; more bible studies, more sermons, more programs, classes, training, conferences, information, more feasting for us. At some point, the church stopped living the bible and decided just to study it, culling the feast parts and whitewashing the fast parts.… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share
“believe You’re my healer. I believe You are all I need. I believe You’re my portion. I believe You’re more than enough for me. Jesus You’re all I need. So I stood there with tears, hands raised, trusting Jesus to be enough. As I reduce, He is enough. As I simplify, He is enough. He is my portion where food… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share
“Love refuses to deny or dismantle another’s perspective simply because I don’t share it.” — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
“God hates Hell. He hates the idea of people going there. He hates it so much that He was willing to take on human… — Evan Minton Copy Share Image
“some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpit against the KKK, I would have a little… — Norman Moss Copy Share Image
I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“every church can treat each discipleship class and each worship service as an opportunity for continual rehearsal of what the words, stories, symbols, rituals,… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“A question for Christians who accept evolution: When did we gain a "soul"? Did Homo habilis have a soul? Homo ergaster? Did God only… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
The notion of a non-religious Christmas is ridiculous. But so is the insistence on the part of Christians that politicians and retailers carry out their pro-Christmas crusade. — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share
A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to… — Anonymous Copy Share
Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image