Seeing Jesus Quotes

“constantly,”
― Jeffrey McClain Jones, Seeing Jesus

“If you listen with your spirit instead of only your physical ears, you’ll continue to hear me. As I told my first disciples, it really is better for me to give you my Spirit to live inside you. With that internal contact, you’ll never have to ask me to speak up. You’ll never have to strain to see me in a crowd. I will be inside you and you inside of me.”
― Jeffrey McClain Jones, Seeing Jesus

“you see with your spirit instead of your physical eyes, you’ll still see me. If you listen with your spirit instead of only your physical ears, you’ll continue to hear me. As I told my first disciples, it really is better for me to give you my Spirit to live inside you. With that internal contact, you’ll never have to ask me to speak up. You’ll never have to strain to see me in a crowd. I will be inside you and you inside of me.”
― Jeffrey McClain Jones, Seeing Jesus

“To ride the stomach-startling careen past the boundaries of our control and into the divine purpose.”
― Jeffrey McClain Jones, Seeing Jesus

“Jesus said. “If you focus instead on my voice, and on what I show you in the world around you, you will be full of joy, instead of fear and depression.”
― Jeffrey McClain Jones, Seeing Jesus

“You’re not responsible for the way people react, only for doing what you know to be right. Not to be rude about it, but really it’s not your business how she’ll react.”
― Jeffrey McClain Jones, Seeing Jesus

“Jesus said, looking back at Philly, “I’ve longed to meet with many of the saints of whom he speaks but they missed my invitation because of their religious busyness.” Then he smiled, “To others I have appeared, in many forms, physically or spiritually, and he would know nothing about those intimate times with the saints that he thinks he knows so well.”
― Jeffrey McClain Jones, Seeing Jesus

“You turn to her, or images of women like her, because people all around you have devoted their creative energy to serving a pagan deity that broadcasts the lie that sex with a beautiful woman will bring you the fulfillment you crave. This lie is not told to your rational mind, which would figure out that it’s a lie, it’s told instead to a confused little boy inside you, what you think of as your emotions and I think of as a broken part of your soul.”
― Jeffrey McClain Jones, Seeing Jesus

“in fact, she is just a person who has needs and who is not the answer to anyone’s deepest longings.”
― Jeffrey McClain Jones, Seeing Jesus

“There is a large gap between believing that God is real, and even that God is engaged in your life, and choosing to cooperate with that engagement.”
― Jeffrey McClain Jones, Seeing Jesus

“You belong to my father in Heaven. He loves you and really wants to be with you.”
― Jeffrey McClain Jones, Seeing Jesus

“There, walking step-for-step with him, was Jesus.”
― Jeffrey McClain Jones, Seeing Jesus

“I’m Jesus and I’m here to keep you company.”
― Jeffrey McClain Jones, Seeing Jesus

“religion generally is the way people try to control God. And, since God is God, it tends to get in the way of actually relating to God.”
― Jeffrey McClain Jones, Seeing Jesus

“You can hear me even when you can’t see me, because you expect to hear me,” he said. “They don’t expect to hear, so they don’t hear.”
― Jeffrey McClain Jones, Seeing Jesus

“I’m content, yet I grieve the profound lack of contentment of most of the people that I love.”
― Jeffrey McClain Jones, Seeing Jesus

“I know what I need you to pray for me now, Grandma,” Philly said in a melancholy voice. “I need you to pray that I survive not having you with me, not having you to talk to, to listen to. That’s what I need you to pray for me now.”
― Jeffrey McClain Jones, Seeing Jesus

“If you can hear me, can you pray for me even now?  Or is it just listening that you can do when you’re in a coma?  I guess you’ll have to tell me when you wake up.”
― Jeffrey McClain Jones, Seeing Jesus

“Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got you covered, old boy,” Philly said, in response to Irving’s impatient mewing.”
― Jeffrey McClain Jones, Seeing Jesus