My Favorite Quotes

Mat 5: 44,46,47

But now I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may become the sons of your Father in Heaven. Why should God reward you if you love only the people who love you? And if you speak only to your friends, have you done anything out of the ordinary?

Mat 6:8

But when you pray, go to your room, close the door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what you do in private, will reward you.

Mat 7:3,4,5

Why, then, do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, and pay no attention to the log in your own eye? How dare you say to your brother, 'Please, let me take that speck out of your eye', when you have a log in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will be able to see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

Mat 5:27,28

You have heard that it was said,' Do not commit adultery'. But now, I tell you: anyone who looks at a woman and wants to possess her is guilty of committing adultery with her in his heart.

Mat 5:38,39

You have heard that it was said,' An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.' But now I tell you: do not take revenge on someone who wrongs you. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, let him slap on your left cheek too.

Mat 7:21

Not everyone who calls me 'Lord, Lord' will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only those who do what my Father in Heaven wants them to do.

Mat 18:12,13

What do you think a man does who has a hundred sheep and one of the gets lost? He will leave the other ninety-nine grazing on the hill side and go and look for the lost sheep. When he finds it, I tell you, he feels far happier over this one sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not get lost.

Mat 25:35,36,40

I was hungry and you fed me; thirsty and you gave me a drink; I was a stranger and you received me in your homes; naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you took care of me; in prison and you visited me.

The King will reply, 'I tell you, whenever you did this for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did it for me!'

Mat 6:3,4

But when you help a needy person, do it in such a way that your closest friend will not know about it (let not your left hand know what your right hand does) . Then it will be a private matter. And your Father, who sees what you do in private, will reward you.

Mat 5:23,24

So if you are about to offer your gift to God at the altar and there you remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar, go at once and make peace with your brother and then come back and offer your gift to God.

Mat 5:43,44,45

You have heard that it was said,' Love your friends; hate your enemies.' But now I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may become the sons of your Father in Heaven. For He makes His sun to shine on bad and good people alike, and gives rain to those who do good and to those who do evil.'

Mark 14:38

And he said to them,' Keep watch, and pray that you will not fall in to temptation. the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.'

Mark 11:17

He then taught the people,' It is written in the scriptures that God said: " My temple will be called a house of prayer for the people of all nations". But you have turned it in to a hideout for thieves!'.

Luke 7:6,7

'Sir, don't trouble yourself. I do not deserve to have you come into my house, neither do I consider myself worthy to come to you in person. Just give the order, and my will get well.

Luke 9:25

Will a person gain anything if he wins the whole world but is himself lost or defeated? Of course not!

Luke 11:9,10,11,12,13

And so I say to you: Ask, and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks will receive, and he who seeks will find, and the door will be opened to anyone who knocks. Would any of you, who are fathers, give your son a snake when he asks for fish? Or would you give him a scorpion when he asks for an egg? Bad as you are, you know how to give good things to your children. How much more then, will the Father in Heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!

Luke 12:28,29,30,31

It is God who clothes the wild grass - grass that is here today and gone tomorrow, burnt up in the oven. Won't He be all the more sure to clothe you? How little faith you have!

So don't be at all upset, always concerned about what you will eat and drink. ( For the pagans of this world are always concerned about all these things). Your father knows that you need these things. Instead be concerned with His kingdom, and He will provide you with these things.

Luke 21:4

For the others offered their gifts from what they had to spare of their riches; but she, poor as she is, gave all she had to live on.

Luke 23:28,34,43

Jesus turned to them and said,' Women of Jerusalem! Don't cry for me, but for yourselves and your children.

Jesus said,' Forgive them, Father! They don't know what they are doing'.

Jesus said to him, 'I promise you that today you will be in paradise with me.'

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life

John 8:12

I am the light of the word; whoever follows me will have the light of life and will never walk in darkness.

John 10:11

I am the good shepherd, who is willing to die for the sheep.

John 12:14,15

Jesus found a donkey, and rode on it, just as the scripture says: 'Do not be afraid, city of Zion! Here comes your King, Riding on a young donkey.'

John 14:5,6

Thomas said to him, 'Lord, we do not know where you are going; so how can we know the way to get there?'. Jesus answered him,' I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one goes to the Father except by me.'

John 15:13

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

John 19:24

The soldiers said to one another,' Let's not tear it; let's throw dice to see who will get it.' This happened in order to make the scriptures come true:

' They divided my clothes among themselves and gambled or my robe.' And this is what the soldiers did.

John 20:25,27,28,29

Thomas said to them,' Unless I see the scars of the nails in His hands and put my finger on those scars and my hand in his side, I will not believe. And then He said to Thomas,' Put your finger here, and look at my hands; then stretch out your hand and put it in my side. Stop doubting and believe.'

Thomas answered Him,' My Lord and my God!'

Jesus said to him,' Do you believe because you see me? How happy are those who believe without seeing me!'.

John 19:36,37

Jesus said,' My kingdom does not belong to this world; if my kingdom belonged to this world, my followers would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish authorities. No, my kingdom does not belong here!'.

So Pilate asked Him,' Are you a king, then?'

Jesus answered,' You say that I am a king. I was born and came in to this world for this one purpose, to speak about the truth. Whoever belongs to the truth listens to me.'