Surprised by Jesus Quotes

“Our culture tells us that the problem is outside us and the solution is inside us. The gospel tells us that the problem is inside us and the solution is outside us.”
― Dane C. Ortlund, Surprised by Jesus: Subversive grace in the four Gospels

“Penitent hookers enter heaven ahead of smug virgins”
― Dane C. Ortlund, Surprised by Jesus: Subversive grace in the four Gospels

“The ancient Greeks told us to be moderate by knowing our inclinations. The Romans told us to be strong by ordering our lives. Buddhism tells us to be disillusioned by annihilating our consciousness. Hinduism tells us to be absorbed by merging our souls.”
― Dane C. Ortlund, Defiant Grace: The surprising message and mission of Jesus

“Мы должны помнить, что Иисус был не мудрецом, а вестником. Мудрец провозглашает мудрость здорового образа жизни и говорит нам, что делать, чтобы к этому прийти. Вестник же возвещает Благую весть о свершившихся победах, рассказывает о том, что уже было сделано.”
― Dane Ortlund, Surprised by Jesus: Subversive Grace in the Four Gospels

“Если, получив благодать, мы, как Иона, чувствуем обиду, а не благодарность, потому что менее достойные тоже ее получили, значит, мы не поняли благодать. Ведь если благодать - это в самом деле благодать, которая дается безвозмездно и не связана с нашими личным заслугами или промахами, то невозможно заслужить ее меньше или больше.”
― Dane Ortlund, Surprised by Jesus: Subversive Grace in the Four Gospels

“Нам нужно перестать ставить нравственные рекорды ради подкрепления чувства собственного достоинства. Лучше грешить и каяться, чем жить в рамках приличия без покаяния.”
― Dane Ortlund, Surprised by Jesus: Subversive Grace in the Four Gospels

“Christ appeared … as both a lion and a lamb. He appeared as a lamb in the hands of his cruel enemies; as a lamb in the paws, and between the devouring jaws, of a roaring lion; yea, he was a lamb actually slain by this lion: and yet at the same time, as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, he conquers and triumphs over Satan, destroying his own devourer.”
― Dane C. Ortlund, Surprised by Jesus: Subversive grace in the four Gospels

“Christianity’s offer is not an invitation to become a Pharisee. It’s an invitation to acknowledge the Pharisee who is already inside and to lay down our subtle efforts at appeasing God and others by our own resources.”
― Dane C. Ortlund, Surprised by Jesus: Subversive grace in the four Gospels

“Matthew’s Gospel. On a little hill outside Jerusalem, where common thieves were strung up naked on crosses to die an excruciating death, Jesus Christ, sent by his Father for a specific purpose determined before the world began, gave himself up to be killed. On that hill, God poured out all his holy wrath on his beloved Son. This historical event is what maintains the moral fabric of the universe, so that you and I can be approved before God simply by admitting that we shouldn’t be.”
― Dane C. Ortlund, Surprised by Jesus: Subversive grace in the four Gospels

“heart through which God’s forgiveness and our joy flow. Even such a subtle thing as gratitude that I am not a Pharisee can immediately turn me into one, since I am comparing my sin with the sin of another instead of with the holiness of God, before”
― Dane C. Ortlund, Surprised by Jesus: Subversive grace in the four Gospels

“is that it is not guilt which is the obstacle to grace, as moralism supposes. On the contrary, it is the repression of guilt, self-justification, genuine self-righteousness and smugness which is the obstacle.”
― Dane Ortlund, Defiant Grace: The surprising message and mission of Jesus