Jesus is hungry but feeds others; He grows weary but offers others rest; He is the King Messiah but pays tribute; He is called the devil but casts out demons; He dies the death of a sinner but comes to save His people from their sins; He is sold for thirty pieces of silver but gives His life a ransom for many; He will not turn stones to bread for Himself but gives His own body as bread for people.
Interpretation
This quote illustrates the selflessness and sacrificial nature of Jesus, emphasizing His role as a servant leader.
The quote reflects the paradoxical nature of Jesus's life and mission, demonstrating how He embodies humility and sacrifice while also holding a position of divine authority. Through His actions and choices, He prioritizes the needs of others over His own, serving as a model for love, compassion, and leadership, illustrating that true greatness comes from serving others.
In practice
During a sermon about kindness, you might quote this to illustrate the importance of helping others even at our own expense.
Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax - in the cross.
It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.
Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.
I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted with this whole different world, and to find out what goes on behind the scenes is so interesting. There's so much of the city that you don't really bother to investigate. Ahh... New York.
Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?
I hope to see the two great religions, Islam and Christianity, hand-in-hand, embracing each other. Then the Torah and the Bible and the Qur’an will become books supporting one another being read everywhere, and respected by every nation … [I am] looking forward to seeing Muslims read the Torah and the Bible.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.
Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.
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