Judah Smith Quotes

God loves us with never-ending love and unconditional passion. ~ Judah Smith

Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out. ~ Judah Smith

Responsibility is good for your soul ~ Judah Smith

If we could get people to think about Jesus, we reasoned, Jesus was more than able to reveal himself to them. ~ Judah Smith

Many of us live with incredible tension and anxiety because we think that our dreams will come true if we just get the right degree, if we just meet the right people, if we just get the right job. We assume our happiness is tied to our success, and our success depends on our performance. So we sweat and struggle and scheme and strategize, and we wonder why we aren't enjoying life. ~ Judah Smith

We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin. ~ Judah Smith

I think people would be surprised to discover that their challenges and struggles are not too dissimilar to us, average ordinary people, we're all looking for essentially the same thing and I think that's faith and hope and love and meaning and of course satisfaction, peace, joy. ~ Judah Smith

Notorious sinners didn't kill Jesus. Religious people did. ~ Judah Smith

I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, "I want a Dad." But you won't abide in anyone. ~ Judah Smith

Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone. ~ Judah Smith

God's love is so extravagant and so inexplicable that he loved us before we were us. He loved us before we existed. He knew many of us would reject him, hate him, curse him, rebel against him. Yet he chose to love us. God loves us because he is love. ~ Judah Smith

A father doesn't say, 'Don't go that way.' He says, 'ome follow me.' ~ Judah Smith

A moment with Jesus changed everything. ~ Judah Smith

But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness. ~ Judah Smith

When we meet grace, it becomes the fuel of our faith. We pray, we read our Bibles, we worship and we live the purest lifestyle we can because we love a person. ~ Judah Smith

I'm a big fan of Disney's animated movies, or at least of most of them. I don't know what it is, but the songs get stuck in my head. There is a Disney song for every situation you encounter in life. Some people quote The Godfather. Some quote Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I quote Walt Disney. Those are the true classics. ~ Judah Smith

Sometimes we get way too fixated on how powerful sin is and how weak we are. We worry that if we relax for a second, we'll mess up royally and ruin everything. Ironically, our paranoia only serves to make us more conscious of our sinfulness. ~ Judah Smith

Be the same person privately, publically and personally. ~ Judah Smith

No sooner do I conquer a bad habit than I become the biggest critic of anyone who still does what I just stopped doing. ~ Judah Smith

When it comes to sin, the only one who has a right to condemn others is Jesus. And he refused. ~ Judah Smith

Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don't focus on riles. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus. ~ Judah Smith

We are often harsher judges than God himself. ~ Judah Smith

Rules are not bad, but they can't save anyone. ~ Judah Smith

It is absolutely essential to have a living visible example of what a Christian ought to be. ~ Judah Smith

Jesus is not your accuser. He's not your prosecutor. He's not your judge. He's your friend and your rescuer. Like Zacchaeus, just spend time with Jesus. Don't hide from him in shame or reject him in self-righteousness. ~ Judah Smith

No sinner is irreparable or irredeemable. No sin is so great that the blood of Jesus cannot cover it. His love is so deep and wide that he can, in one moment of our faith, forgive our past, present, and future sins. Sin is simply not a problem for God. ~ Judah Smith

It takes courage and humility to recognize we are as messed up as the drug addict next door, and many of us never get that honest. ~ Judah Smith

God is with us, loves us, and wants us to be fulfilled and satisfied. God wants our lives to be awesome in every way. ~ Judah Smith

God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern. ~ Judah Smith

Rules are not proof of our spirituality. If anything, they are proof of our sinfulness, a reminder that we have a tendency toward wrongdoing and that we need help. ~ Judah Smith

What we do on Sunday absolutely doesn't matter unless it meets us on Monday. Changes us on Monday. Transforms us on Monday. ~ Judah Smith

Once you savor God's goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal. ~ Judah Smith

Christianity is not about not swearing. It's not about not having impure thoughts. Really, it's not about not at all. Christianity is about Jesus. ~ Judah Smith

That's how we often react when grace comes at us. It's awkward. God offers us something that's too good to be true - unearned, unmerited, total forgiveness - and we stand there, stiff and uncomfortable, waiting for the embrace to stop so we can get back to the business of earning our way into heaven. We need to embrace grace. We need to learn how to hug back. ~ Judah Smith

We aren't Christians because we live like Christians; we are Christians because we have accepted the gift of salvation. We have come to know God on an experiential, authentic level. ~ Judah Smith

But freedom starts with honesty. We aren't doing ourselves any favors by defining our- selves as good and others as bad. Let's just agree that we all need help, that we are all in this together. ~ Judah Smith

You don't have to be good to be Jesus's friend. You just have to be honest. ~ Judah Smith

It's interesting how people try to redefine God to their liking. They bring him down to their level so they can understand him, then they reject him because he is too much like them. ~ Judah Smith

Worry is useless. Worry saps our strength and steals our focus. It causes us to be more awestruck and dumbfounded by storms than by the one who silences storms with a word. ~ Judah Smith

Sometimes God takes your life for some crazy twists and turns. ~ Judah Smith

It seemed too good to be true. That's grace. ~ Judah Smith

I think if Jesus had one shot at fixing us, He'd tell us how much He loves us. Jesus loves us right now, just as we are. He isn't standing aloof, yelling at us to climb out of our pits and clean ourselves up so we can be worthy of Him. He is wading waist-deep into the muck of life, weeping with the broken, rescuing the lost, and healing the sick. ~ Judah Smith

The common denominator is that we all need help. ~ Judah Smith

You didnt access love, love accessed you! ~ Judah Smith

I can imagine myself in her place: trapped by a sordid past, terribly alone, defenseless before a crowd of jeering judges who hold my life in their hands. And then, when hope is lost, the one who truly has the right to condemn me looks at me. In his eyes I read something completely unexpected. Compassion. ~ Judah Smith

God transforms us one area at a time. ~ Judah Smith

Are you struggling with sin? You don't need more will power. You need more of Jesus. ~ Judah Smith

What an opportunity we have to be a community ... A community where there are models. ~ Judah Smith

The statement I made in regard to, 'Will can do whatever he wants,' has illuminated the need to discuss the relationship between trust and love and how they co-exist Should we be married to individuals who can not be responsible for themselves and their families within their freedom? Should we be in relationships with individuals who we can not entrust to their own values, integrity, and LOVEfor us??? Here is how I will change my statementWill and I BOTH can do WHATEVER we want, because we TRUST each other to do so. This does NOT mean we have an open relationshipthis means we have a GROWN one. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists. ~ Thorne Smith

Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was 13 years old and lived in New Jersey, Pennsylvania. At the time of his death, his license was current and he had had all of his shots. He is survived by two adults, three children, a cat named Daisy who drove him nuts, and his lifelong companion, Pudgy, whose spaying he always regretted, as well as a host of fleas who have gone elsewhere, probably to Pudgy. He will be missed by all, except Daisy. He never bit anyone, which is more than you can say for most of us. ~ Anna Quindlen

[The Doctor] pulled the thing out of Prince Boris's mouth, waving it around. 'Oh. Blimey. This is not a spatula. What is it?'
I [Amy] stared at the stubby thing. It looked like the world's chunkiest novelty gift pen ... I coughed. 'That, Doctor, is the sonic screwdriver.'
'Ah,' Dr Smith boggled. 'Right. Is it? Oh dear.' Another pause. 'What does it do?'
'Well ... it screws things ... sonically. On a good day, we fight off monsters with it.'
'Monsters, eh?' Dr Smith nodded gravely and ... pointed it at the doorway like a gun and said, hopefully, 'Pew! Pew! Pew!' He turned back to me. 'Like that?'
'Other way up,' I said gently. ~ James Goss

It has been truthfully said that organic evolution is Satan's chief weapon in this dispensation in his attempt to destroy the divine mission of Jesus Christ. ~ Joseph Fielding Smith

If you can find one good thing to say about her I'll turn vegetarian! ~ L.J.Smith

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn't have to be justified by some political point of view, and it's kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else. ~ Elliott Smith

If men had to have babies there wouldn't be any sex life left. ~ Thorne Smith

I never knew whether his speedy speech patterns reflected amphetamine use or an amphetamine mind. He would often lead me up blind alleys or through an endless labyrinth of incomprehensible logic. I felt like Alice with the Mad Hatter, negotiating jokes without punch lines, and having to retrace my steps on the chessboard floor back to the logic of my own peculiar universe. ~ Patti Smith

It was a tough decision.' Mickey crosses his arms and scoffs, 'No such thing, mate. You're either right or you ain't. And ~ Zadie Smith

If you have enemies, then your biggest enemy is yourself. Do you know that, Mma? ~ Alexander McCall Smith

He looked at her then, and she could see he wasn't afraid.
"Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten," he said. ~ L.J.Smith

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist. ~ Shane Smith

So she learned ways of conserving bits of seconds. Long before the train ground to a stop at her station, she pushed her way to the door to be one of the first expelled when it slid open. Out of the train, she ran like a deer, circling the crowd to be the first up the stairs leading to the street. Walking to the office, she kept close to the buildings so she could turn corners sharply. She crossed streets kittycorner to save stepping off and on an extra pair of curbs. At the building, she shoved her way into the elevator even though the operator yelled "Car's full!" And all this maneuvering to arrive one minute before, instead of after nine! ~ Betty Smith

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you. ~ Wilbur Smith

Before that first line of pale chalk, before the underdrawing fleshes out into shapes and proportions, there is a stab of grief for all the things she didn't get to paint. The finches wheeling in the rafters of the barn, Cornelis reading in the arbor, Tomas bent over in his roses in the flower garden, apple blossoms, walnuts beside oysters, Kathrijn in the full bloom of her short life, Barent sleeping in a field of lilacs, the Gypsies in the market, late-night revelers in the taverns…. Every work is a depiction and a lie. We rearrange the living, exaggerate the light, intimate dusk when it's really noonday sun. ~ Dominic Smith

I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare. ~ Sheridan Smith

Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story. ~ Shane Smith

My work life makes much less sense now than 20 years ago. It's Humpty-Dumpty-like in a way; I can't put the pieces back together. ~ Kiki Smith

People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing. ~ Elliott Smith

You want a profound and total lack of people violently dying on you, try dairy farming instead. ~ Anna Smith Spark

The mother eagle teaches her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. And just so does our God to us. He stirs up our comfortable nests, and pushes us over the edge of them, and we are forced to use our wings to save ourselves from fatal falling. Read your trials in this light, and see if you cannot begin to get a glimpse of their meaning. Your wings are being developed. ~ Hannah Whitall Smith

It's good to do something for Americans for once. ~ Jeff Smith

I want to embrace my full self, as natural as I can be. ~ Willow Smith

When there is nothing you can do to stop the march of adverse events, then the best thing, she felt, was to get on with life and not to worry. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

The living turn quickly from the dead. We can sit deathwatch for a time, but at last their great absence will remind us that we are still present, and we will need to get on with being so. Life is not fussy about where it grows, but it is set on doing so. ~ Ananda Braxton-Smith

We never realise how transparent we are. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

A toy is seen both as a bauble and as an intellectual machine. ~ Brian Sutton-Smith

I had found out in that glittering corridor off the ballroom that being with him could be more painful than being away from him. ~ Dodie Smith

I broke every barrier I could to see things as they are. ~ Lillian Smith

I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things? ~ Dodie Smith

Words can make big things little, you know. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved. ~ Red Smith

I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America. ~ Seth Grahame-Smith

I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was raised to believe you eat because your body needs fuel for energy, so I eat super foods. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

After walking the Royal Mile, we visit Edinburgh Castle. Overlooking the city from the grassy hilltop of the Castle Rock, the fortress itself looks as though it has been carved from the very stone upon which it sits. It is powerful yet elegant, lavish yet wholly inviting to anyone fortunate enough to find themselves standing at the castle gate. These are doors and walls and windows that have seen kings and queens, saints and sinners, voyagers from all corners of the world. And now us. ~ Jacqueline E. Smith

In my generation, if a man washes the dishes, the older women still tend to cluster around and coo and thank him and praise him. But if a woman washes the dishes, it's business as usual, even if both man and woman have tough office jobs. ~ Sherwood Smith

But with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'. ~ Huston Smith

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. ~ Adam Smith

In retirement, Smith reflected on his exceptional performance, saying simply, I never stopped trying to become qualified for the job. ~ James C. Collins

When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do. ~ Bessie Smith

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other. ~ Anna Deavere Smith

People always find it so frustrating that there's no structure they can see, that they just have to follow the river downstream and see what they find. They want to know the plot so they can guess the end, because they're afraid of what it might be. I can understand that, even though I know it's not the way things work. I never know what the hell's going to happen next, but I can live with that. ~ Michael Marshall Smith

Are we facing a new Dark Age, Angus? Possibly, Lou. A dark age in which our concentration spell is this long. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day. ~ Kiki Smith

I'm an enigma, an unknown. ~ Emmitt Smith

In The Theory of the Moral Sentiments, Smith emphasized that trust, responsibility and accountability exist only in a society that respects them, and only where the spontaneous fruit of human sympathy is allowed to ripen. It is where sympathy, duty and virtue achieve their proper place that self-interest leads, by an invisible hand, to a result that benefits everyone. And this means that people can best satisfy their interests only in a context where they are also on occasion moved to renounce them. Beneath every society where self-interest pays off, lies a foundation of self-sacrifice. ~ Roger Scruton

The keys to life are running and reading. When you're running, there's a little person that talks to you and says, "Oh I'm tired. My lung's about to pop. I'm so hurt. There's no way I can possibly continue." You want to quit. If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will how to not quit when things get hard in your life. For reading: there have been gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There's no new problem you could have
with your parents, with school, with a bully. There's no new problem that someone hasn't already had and written about it in a book. ~ Will Smith