Top 70 Judah Smith Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Grace is a person. And his name is Jesus.”

— Judah Smith

2. “Be the same person privately, publically and personally.”

— Judah Smith

3. “Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.”

— Judah Smith

4. “God’s love is so extravagant and so inexplicable that he loved us before we were us. He loved us before we existed. He knew many of us would reject him, hate him, curse him, rebel against him. Yet he chose to love us. God loves us because he is love.”

— Judah Smith

5. “Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone.”

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6. “We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.”

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7. “You didnt access love, love accessed you!”

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8. “A moment with Jesus changed everything.”

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9. “Once you savor God’s goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.”

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10. “You don’t have to be good to be Jesus’s friend. You just have to be honest.”

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11. “Don’t allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.”

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12. “God transforms us one area at a time.”

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13. “Don’t cheapen Jesus’s sacrifice by trying to pay him back.”

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14. “God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.”

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15. “Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.”

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16. “Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn’t share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.”

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17. “Indifference was our greatest enemy.”

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18. “But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.”

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19. “Don’t you know you are the only Jesus many people will ever see? In compromising your lifestyle, you forfeit your capacity to accurately reflect God’s image and endanger an entire generation’s understanding of Jesus.”

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20. “When you look in the eyes of grace, when you meet grace, when you embrace grace, when you see the nail prints in grace’s hands and the fire in his eyes, when you feel his relentless love for you – it will not motivate you to sin. It will motivate you to righteousness.”

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21. “Healthy people don’t need a doctor,” Jesus said. “Sick people do.” That’s why he spent his time with the needy, the helpless, and the depraved. He came down to their level because they could never rise to his. He wasn’t out to prove how good he was or how bad they were. He just wanted to offer them hope.”

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22. “Sometimes God takes your life for some crazy twists and turns.”

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23. “Sometimes our brains are our own worst enemy because grace isn’t logical.”

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24. “Are you struggling with sin? You don’t need more will power. You need more of Jesus.”

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25. “Christianity is not about not swearing. It’s not about not having impure thoughts. Really, it’s not about not at all. Christianity is about Jesus.”

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26. “Jesus is not your accuser. He’s not your prosecutor. He’s not your judge. He’s your friend and your rescuer. Like Zacchaeus, just spend time with Jesus. Don’t hide from him in shame or reject him in self-righteousness.”

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27. “Jesus loves us right now, just as we are. He isn’t standing aloof, yelling at us to climb out of our pits and clean ourselves up so we can be worthy of him. He is wading waist-deep into the muck of life, weeping with the broken, rescuing the lost, and healing the sick.”

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28. “It seemed too good to be true. That’s grace.”

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29. “The common denominator is that we all need help.”

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30. “Grace is God-given power to live differently.”

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31. “Responsibility is good for your soul.”

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32. “God loves us with never-ending love and unconditional passion.”

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33. “The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.”

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34. “God is with us, loves us, and wants us to be fulfilled and satisfied. God wants our lives to be awesome in every way.”

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35. “Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!”

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36. “But it doesn’t work that way. No matter how hard we study or work, no matter how early we wake up or how late we go to bed, ultimately time and chance happen to us all. We can’t guarantee anything. But God can. And only God can. When we remember that, a peace that passes understanding floods our souls. Quietness and rest are found not in control but in surrender.”

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37. “No sinner is irreparable or irredeemable. No sin is so great that the blood of Jesus cannot cover it. His love is so deep and wide that he can, in one moment of our faith, forgive our past, present, and future sins. Sin is simply not a problem for God.”

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38. “In the journey of life, emotions make great companions but terrible leaders. But.”

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39. “Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don’t focus on riles. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus.”

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40. “I’m a big fan of Disney’s animated movies, or at least of most of them. I don’t know what it is, but the songs get stuck in my head. There is a Disney song for every situation you encounter in life. Some people quote The Godfather. Some quote Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I quote Walt Disney. Those are the true classics.”

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41. “It takes courage and humility to recognize we are as messed up as the drug addict next door, and many of us never get that honest.”

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42. “Sometimes we get way too fixated on how powerful sin is and how weak we are. We worry that if we relax for a second, we’ll mess up royally and ruin everything. Ironically, our paranoia only serves to make us more conscious of our sinfulness.”

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43. “That’s how we often react when grace comes at us. It’s awkward. God offers us something that’s too good to be true – unearned, unmerited, total forgiveness – and we stand there, stiff and uncomfortable, waiting for the embrace to stop so we can get back to the business of earning our way into heaven. We need to embrace grace. We need to learn how to hug back.”

— Judah Smith

44. “Jesus is giving us an invitation to life. The invitation is to truly live: not just to exist, not just to breathe, but to live life as it was meant to be lived. But his invitation to this existence is paradoxical. God’s invitation to life comes through death.”

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45. “I’ve never met a person who exaggerated God’s love. Never. It’s impossible.”

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46. “We need to abandon our scale and adopt God’s because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.”

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47. “When we meet grace, it becomes the fuel of our faith. We pray, we read our Bibles, we worship and we live the purest lifestyle we can because we love a person.”

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48. “Sometimes I crack myself up; but laughter is biblical, so I feel almost holy laughing at my own jokes.”

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49. “It’s interesting how people try to redefine God to their liking. They bring him down to their level so they can understand him, then they reject him because he is too much like them.”

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50. “Jesus was different. He didn’t wink at sin, but he didn’t write sinners off either. He offered faith, hope, and love. That’s why time after time in the Bible we find hardcore sinners seated around a table with Jesus, just chilling. They would spend hours listening, asking questions, laughing, crying. They were captivated by his compassion and riveted by his practical explanations of how to do life. Jesus let them belong long before they believed or behaved.”

— Judah Smith