What If It's True? Quotes

“Could you wash Judas’s feet?”
― Charles Martin, What If It's True?: A Storyteller’s Journey with Jesus

“Sin requires blood. I can’t explain why. It just is. Somewhere in here, I came to grips with the beautiful, tender, magnificent, barbaric, soul-shattering, eternal, unequivocal reality that the birth, life, and death of this innocent boy and magnificent Man are simply my King’s first step from throne to trough to cross to tomb to hell to God’s right hand. As a result, I am blood bought. Blood washed. And blood redeemed.”
― Charles Martin, What If It's True?: A Storyteller’s Journey with Jesus

“He elbows his way—blindly—through the crowd. People are ushering him forward. “Hurry, He’s calling you. He’s very busy.” Bartimaeus bounces forward like a pinball. Feet shuffling. Steps uncertain. Note the context: Jesus is on His way to Jerusalem. To the cross. Where He is going to redeem His people from the curse. He knows this. He is walking straight toward His own execution, and yet for some illogical and inexplicable reason He stops to talk with the blind, smelly beggar living under a curse.”
― Charles Martin, What If It's True?: A Storyteller’s Journey with Jesus

“If you're having trouble making a distinction between the voices in your head, let me put it this way: there are two sources of supernatural power on this earth. Jesus and satan. If what you're hearing does not come from Jesus, then by definition, it does come from satan.”
― Charles Martin, What If It's True?: A Storyteller's Journey With Jesus

“Truth is, our hardship does not determine His character or His love for us, and it doesn’t make Him any less King or any less capable or any less good or any less in love with us. The choice is ours.”
― Charles Martin, What If It's True?: A Storyteller’s Journey with Jesus

“And just as we desperately need it from Jesus, there are people who, whether they know it or not, need that gift from us.”
― Charles Martin, What If It's True?: A Storyteller’s Journey with Jesus