Jesus Quotes

“The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don’t know.”
― Leonard Sweet, Jesus: A Theography

“Jesus Christ is the rest of God. He is, as N. T. Wright has put it, “the fulfillment of the sabbath.”114 By taking Christ as our rest, we cease from our labors just as God did from His.115 Christianity, therefore, begins not with a do, but with a done—“It is finished!”116 We enter into God’s rest, and we labor from there.”
― Leonard Sweet, Jesus: A Theography

“The end product of biblical Christianity is a person—not a book, not a building, not a set of principles or a system of ethics—but one person in two natures (divine/human) with four ministries (prophet/priest/king/sage) and four biographies (the Gospels). But those four biographies don’t tell the whole story. Every bit of Scripture is part of the same great story of that one person and that one story’s plotline of creation, revelation, redemption, and consummation.”
― Leonard Sweet, Jesus: A Theography

“I understand God’s patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how He can be so patient with the pious. —GEORGE MACDONALD”
― Leonard Sweet, Jesus: A Theography

“The devil ought not to be in our line of vision but in our shadow.”
― Leonard Sweet, Jesus: A Theography

“Philip Yancey was dead-on when he said that some Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.79”
― Leonard Sweet, Jesus: A Theography

“pristine setting of a shared love that flowed between the Father, Son, and Spirit, and made Himself of no reputation as a human being—even a servant.18 While on earth, Jesus divested Himself of His divine rights and was the recipient of the Father’s love, life, and power—just as He had known them in eternity. Consequently, the incarnation should not be seen as a single temporal act in history. But the divine emptying that it embodied began before creation, continued into the incarnation, and further than that. As Paul wrote, it continued to “even the death of the cross.”19 In the incarnation, the God of eternity gave Himself to humanity by becoming human.20 Because we are caught in space-time, the incarnation is something we can approach only from the human side. We know it to be a historical event that took place in the first century. But when we talk about the incarnate Son—Emmanuel, God with us—we’re talking about a profound mystery. The incarnation points to an eternal reality. Namely, God’s nature is that of kenosis, the pouring out of Himself in love into the other members of the Trinity.”
― Leonard Sweet, Jesus: A Theography

“The Second Testament authors used the same First Testament texts independently of one another. And they interpreted them in exactly the same way, often citing the texts in the same order.”
― Leonard Sweet, Jesus: A Theography

“there are more biographies of Jesus than of any other human—one hundred thousand biographies in English alone.4”
― Leonard Sweet, Jesus: A Theography

“When the heartbeat of the church is something other than being a praying and inclusive church (whether it be missional, organic, seeker-sensitive, purpose-driven, or any number of good things), it arouses Jesus’ ire.”
― Leonard Sweet, Jesus: A Theography

“Jewish males prayed a daily prayer of thanksgiving, which ended: Praise be to God who has not made me a non-Jew. Praise be to God who has not made me an ignorant person. Praise be to God who has not made me a woman.68”
― Leonard Sweet, Jesus: A Theography

“God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays. —A.W. TOZER112”
― Leonard Sweet, Jesus: A Theography