A Life for God Quotes

“Hebrews 10:35 says, So don’t throw away that courage of yours, which carries with it such a great reward.”
― Rabbi Greg Hershberg, A Life for God: A Rabbi’s Analysis of Life, the Cross, and Eternity

“We need to look at the word deny to understand what Yeshua was saying to them. It means to forget oneself. It’s not the same as self-denial. That’s giving things up to show God we’re good people. What He’s talking about here is the act of restraining one’s own desires. It means we have no rights. What? If He’s saying we have no rights, He’s basically saying, we’re called to be bondservants.”
― Rabbi Greg Hershberg, A Life for God: A Rabbi’s Analysis of Life, the Cross, and Eternity

“Once things start to control us, we take our focus off the One who should be controlling us.”
― Rabbi Greg Hershberg, A Life for God: A Rabbi’s Analysis of Life, the Cross, and Eternity

“Our bodies are intended to be our servants, not our masters.”
― Rabbi Greg Hershberg, A Life for God: A Rabbi’s Analysis of Life, the Cross, and Eternity

“Courage isn’t the absence of fear. It’s moving ahead in spite of the fear, because we’ll never get rid of all our fears.”
― Rabbi Greg Hershberg, A Life for God: A Rabbi’s Analysis of Life, the Cross, and Eternity

“The number seven speaks of spiritual perfection and completeness and is tied closely to God’s seven-day creation week with God’s Sabbath being the seventh day. The book of Revelation describes seven churches, seven angels, seven seals, seven trumpets, and seven thunders. Between Genesis and Revelation, the number seven continues to appear.”
― Rabbi Greg Hershberg, A Life for God: A Rabbi’s Analysis of Life, the Cross, and Eternity