All Quotes By Tag: Salvation

“Jesus was born in a borrowed barn, he was buried in a borrowed tomb, and in-between it all he borrowed mankind’s sin with the intent of never returning it.”

“What in the world would drive an author to write his own death into the script, and then sentence himself to that very death by turning his fiction into fact? The fact is, you and I are that ‘what the world.”

“The greatest angst imaginable is to create something magnificent for those I love and then watch those I love utterly destroy the very thing that I created for them. And while I would surrender under the weight of the resulting carnage, God took a very different approach and surrendered His son to repair the carnage.”

“To die for the very thing that you’re saving is far less a death and far more what it is to live.”

“Who in the world would walk into the very things that we created in order to save us from what we created by dying right in the middle of what we created? God did it by creating something called Christmas.”

“Some would say that paradise is the escapist ‘fiction’ of hapless minds caught up in the denial of a darkening world. But Christmas would say that the ‘paradise’ of escapist fiction has not a single shred of fiction in it at all.”

“Why was God born in a borrowed barn to two impoverished teenagers in a town far off the pages of commerce and industry? Because true greatness will always shed the mantel of privilege in order to meet us in the muck of our lives.”

“The phenomenally improbable message of Christmas is that everything that we were convinced was a defeat is in fact a victory in the making.”

“Because we don’t ‘want’ God in no ways means that we don’t ‘need’ Him. And if we confuse the two, we might get what we want but we will die for lack of what we need.”

“I look at a baby born in a manger and I ask, “Would I be willing to do that?” And the fact that I’m not evidences the need for Christmas.”

“Have we not considered that the greatest sacrifices imaginable arise from the greatest love conceivable which results in the greatest transformations possible. And if this is not our understanding of Christmas, we have no Christmas.”

“I have made myself my own first-responder. And if I’m really all that good, why am I still laying at the scene of the accident?”

“I tell myself that I am what I need. But it is quite evident that what I need is what I’m not. And the greatest thing I’m not is God.”

“To think that God pens history solely as a retelling of ‘what was’ is to miss the extraordinary fact that history is God’s initiation to ‘what can be.’ And Christmas is one of the greatest moments in history which renders it one of the greatest invitations of our life.”

“The genius in Christmas is that it changes the trajectory of everything through a baby who was born into nothing. And if we have any shred of genius in us at all, it will be evidenced by our willingness to embrace that ‘everything’ out of our ‘nothing.”