Mike Yaconelli Quotes About Jesus

Quotes about: Jesus

• The power of the Church is not a parade of flawless people, but of a flawless Christ who embraces our flaws. The Church is not made up of whole people, rather of the broken people who find wholeness in a Christ who was broken for us.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Power, Broken

• Speed damages our souls because living fast consumes every ounce of our energy. Speed has a deafening roar that drowns our the whispering voices of our souls and leaves Jesus as a diminishing speck in the rearview mirror.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Mirrors, Voice

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.64, Harper Collins

• Religious people love to hide behind religion. They love the rules of religion more than they love Jesus. With practice, Condemners let rules become more important than the spiritual life.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Spiritual, Religious, Jesus

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.36, Harper Collins

• Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring. The grace of God is preposterous enough to accept as beautiful a coloring that anyone else would reject as ugly. The grace of God sees beyond the scribbling to the heart of the scribbler - a scribbler who is similar to two thieves who hung on crosses on either side of Jesus. One of the two asked Jesus to please accept his scribbled and sloppy life into the kingdom of God and He did. Preposterous. And very good news for the rest of us scribblers.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Beautiful, Jesus, Heart

• Nothing in the church makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and find the uninvited standing at the door making sure no other uninviteds get in. Then a strange phenomenon occurs: as soon as we are included in the party because of Jesus' irresponsible love, we decide to make grace "more responsible" by becoming self-appointed Kingdom Monitors, guarding the kingdom of God, keeping the riffraff out (which, as I understand it, are who the kingdom of God is supposed to include).

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Party, Doors

• I want a lifetime of holy moments. Every day I want to be in dangerous proximity to Jesus. I long for a life that explodes with meaning and is filled with adventure, wonder, risk, and danger. I long for a faith that is gloriously treacherous. I want to be with Jesus, not knowing whether to cry or laugh.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Adventure, Knowing

  Michael Yaconelli, Mike Yaconelli (2000). “Dangerous Wonder: The Adventure of Childlike Faith”

• Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes ... a life ruined by a Jesus who loves us right into his arms.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Bumps, Arms

• What landed Jesus on the cross was the preposterous idea that common, ordinary, broken, screwed-up people could be godly.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Godly, Ideas

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.14, Harper Collins

• Sin does not always drive us to drink; more often it drives us to exhaustion. Tiredness is equally as debilitating as drunkenness. Burnout is slang for an inner tiredness, a fatigue of our souls. Jesus came to forgive us all of our sins, including the sin of busyness. The problem with growth in the modern church is not the slowness of growth but the rushing of growth.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Rushing, Soul

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.64, Harper Collins

• The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Believe, Church

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.26, Harper Collins

• Jesus cares more about desire than about competence

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Desire, Care

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.25, Harper Collins

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