
“The key, though, win or lose, is not to fail. And the only way to fail is not to fight. So you fight until you can’t fight anymore. Hold up you head and enter the arena, and face the enemy. Fight until you can’t fight anymore, never let go, never give up, never run, never surrender. Fight the good fight, you fight even when it seems inevitable that you’re about to go down swinging.”
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“Heaven isn’t a place for people who are scared of hell; it’s for people who love Jesus.”
― Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough
― Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough

“He actually does the opposite. He says, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.â€�1 If Jesus wanted to grow a church, didn’t he know telling people they need to daily pick up an instrument of torture, death, and shame wasn’t the way to do it? Jesus opposed the pharisaical legalism of his time, but he also opposed the watered-down, flimsy, cultural religion. He was essentially saying, “I know my miracles are awesome. I know I have immense power. But don’t follow me for the wrong reason. The cost is high. The road to follow me is tough, it’s painful, it hurts, and you might even face death, but I promise there is joy on the other side. Do you want in?”
― Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough
― Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough

“We’ve lost the real Jesus—or at least exchanged him for a newer, safer, sanitized, ineffectual one. We’ve created a Christian subculture that comes with its own set of customs, rules, rituals, paradigms, and products that are nowhere near the rugged, revolutionary faith of biblical Christianity. In our subculture Jesus would have never been crucified—he’s too nice.”
― Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough
― Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough

“God’s grace is so much more powerful of a motivator than fear. Love is the deepest motivator. Only love can produce not only willing obedience but also lasting obedience. If you are being motivated by fear, rules, anger, or some other emotion, it usually only lasts while that emotion is there. Love, being a state of the heart, lasts even past the initial emotion.”
― Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough
― Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough
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