Justin Lee Quotes

If anyone had a right to lecture people about their sin, it was the sinless son of God. If even he could meet sinners as equals, how much more should we Christians
all sinners ourselves
treat as equals the people we encounter in our lives?

I want to do what I love, which is act, and hopefully through that, leave a positive impact somehow, someway, with somebody.

No matter how I cut my hair, when it grows out, it will always grow out into The Bowl. I just naturally have a bowl.

The Pharisees lacked - and what we Christians have all too often lacked - is grace. We must never let our theological disagreements get in the way of showing God's unconditional, overpowering grace to everyone we meet.

I guess you could say I was kind of a nerd in high school, so I was in the upper division math courses - I embrace my inner nerd.

There's something weird about arguments: They're the first thing we reach for when we want to change someone's mind, and yet they're not very effective at actually changing minds. The more desperate we are to change someone's mind, the more passionately we argue. And the more passionately we argue, the more defensive each side gets. It's as if we're trying to force them into our way of thinking by making our words louder and harsher, but in so doing, we only cause them to dig in their heels more and more, as both sides grow increasingly angry and irrational.

This is disturbing news for all of us in the Christian community. Jesus wasn't known for his disdain for people; he was known for his unconditional love for everyone, especially outcasts and sinners. One of the charges Jesus' opponents had against him was that he was "a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners."2 Surely the faith he founded should never be known for looking down on anyone.

Whatever mistakes her son might make in life, Cindy was sure God would have mercy on him. The church, she feared, might not.

I do MMA and things like that, so any chance I get to do my own stunts, I love it.

Increasingly, we take our disagreements not to the people we disagree with but to our own echo chambers - spaces where we can talk about, rather than to, the other side - where like-minded people echo our own beliefs right back to us.

My choices, it seemed, were to be branded a sinner and live my life alone; to abandon my faith, the one thing I held most dear in the entire world; or to lie to everyone, pretend I was straight, and forget about it all.

Challenge the church to do better, be more of who Christ wants us to be ...

Unfortunately, some churches are now so worried about being arrogant and unbending like certain other Christians that they fail to stand for anything at all. They hang question marks over all the major doctrines of the faith or throw them out entirely. Bit by bit, they lose the things that set them apart as Christians.

It's easy to decide that the other side's real motivation on an issue is prejudice or selfishness or greed. And sometimes, unflattering descriptions may in fact be true. Unabashed racism or sexism or selfishness or cruelty may in fact be someone's primary motivator. But unless they see themselves as unabashedly racist or sexist or selfish or cruel, there's still an unanswered question, the question of what they think their motivations are. There's nearly always more to the story.

I love food. I'm a huge food addict. I think in my past life I was a pig or something like that, but I love eating; I never stop eating.

The fact that people are able to be positively impacted by any of my work is really just a blessing. And ultimately, that's what I want to do.