Liberating Jesus Quotes

“And, make no mistake. When you are in what we call the afterlife levels and in active contact with the parts of your mind that you can’t directly access when in a body, you crave spiritual growth like every craving you ever have felt in your life at once. Like food and drink and sex, like a baby in your arms or financial success, you pine for what the dead tell us is the greatest possible thrill: you yearn for more intimate communion with God. So, as much as you are thinking now that you never will choose to go through this again, inevitably you will want another earth-lifetime. Everyone does. Until we reach a level of spiritual fitness that will let us serve others while remaining in the afterlife levels as we continue to work toward our spiritual perfection, we eagerly line up for more time on earth.”
― Roberta Grimes, Liberating Jesus

“Of course, the other end of the Lord’s crucial command to “Love your neighbor as yourself” (MT 22:39) is self-love, which turns out to be no less important than loving others. My own experience has been that as I have freed myself from religious fears and learned to better love the genuine God of which my mind is a part, I have begun to hold myself in higher esteem. That is likely also to be your experience. As you better internalize the extraordinary extent to which God loves you in particular, you will find yourself standing a little straighter. You will breathe more deeply. It is so much easier to learn to love others when you are doing that from the certain knowledge that you are a powerful eternal being and the best-beloved child of an infinitely powerful God! Learn first to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind” (MT 22:37). Once your love of God is perfected to this extent, then your love of yourself and of every other person on the face of the earth becomes an easier and a natural progression.”
― Roberta Grimes, Liberating Jesus

“Max Planck won the 1918 Nobel Prize in physics as the father of quantum mechanics. In 1931, Planck said, “I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.” By 1944, he was positing a force that controls the atom. He said, “We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.”
― Roberta Grimes, Liberating Jesus

“My fear is that by the end of this century, traditional Christianity will be in sharp decline, and we must make sure that people won’t throw away our precious Baby with what is apparently bathwater. I still love the Christianity I used to practice. I can sing so many hymns by heart! And the comfort of knowing that just by being the right kind of Christian I was on God’s A-list is something I so fondly remember. But in compensation for my lost faith, I have found a glorious certainty. I have learned that Jesus is more important than I ever in my wildest dreams imagined, and God’s plan for what is possible on earth is more wonderful than the human mind can dream.”
― Roberta Grimes, Liberating Jesus