Create Yours

Top 20 K.J. Ramsey Quotes (2024 Update)

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “Suffering whispers, shouts, and screams the story no one wants to remember: we are not in control, and we are all going to die.”

1. “Suffering whispers, shouts, and screams the story no one wants to remember: we are not in control, and we are all going to die.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “So listen to this more closely than to those who taunt or judge, including yourself: “God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world.”3 The parts of your story that seem to be keeping you from strength and significance are what God calls chosen and valuable.”

2. “So listen to this more closely than to those who taunt or judge, including yourself: “God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world.”3 The parts of your story that seem to be keeping you from strength and significance are what God calls chosen and valuable.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “Often the pain that makes us feel most stuck is not our suffering; it is experiencing distress in the presence of people who expect us to get better faster than we can.”

3. “Often the pain that makes us feel most stuck is not our suffering; it is experiencing distress in the presence of people who expect us to get better faster than we can.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “And if what we hear from God’s people is largely the language of try hard and triumph, the sugar-lipped expectation that we’ll get better and move on, when our efforts are futile and triumph seems distant, we might just believe that the story of Jesus isn’t for us or isn’t even true. Prolonged pain becomes shame, a hidden hurt that we might not be loved by God after all.”

4. “And if what we hear from God’s people is largely the language of try hard and triumph, the sugar-lipped expectation that we’ll get better and move on, when our efforts are futile and triumph seems distant, we might just believe that the story of Jesus isn’t for us or isn’t even true. Prolonged pain becomes shame, a hidden hurt that we might not be loved by God after all.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “We need water that flows when we are fragile, grace that girds when we are weak, hope that holds us when our hands are empty, holiness that hears and shatters our pride, and a faith far deeper and more mysterious than a mere affirmation that God is good. We need to be pulled into God’s goodness in embodied experiences reflecting who he is.”

5. “We need water that flows when we are fragile, grace that girds when we are weak, hope that holds us when our hands are empty, holiness that hears and shatters our pride, and a faith far deeper and more mysterious than a mere affirmation that God is good. We need to be pulled into God’s goodness in embodied experiences reflecting who he is.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “The deepest anguish of suffering involves coming up against the divide in ourselves between believing God is loving and feeling it is true.”

6. “The deepest anguish of suffering involves coming up against the divide in ourselves between believing God is loving and feeling it is true.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “Shame wants us to live divided, dishonest, disembodied lives, to treat our bodies and stories like failures to conceal, to let our lips say we believe God is good while our hearts stay discouraged in the dark. The most harrowing power of shame might be its stealth in convincing us that silencing our pain behind statements of God’s goodness is spiritual, when really it’s just a churchy form of self-sufficiency.”

7. “Shame wants us to live divided, dishonest, disembodied lives, to treat our bodies and stories like failures to conceal, to let our lips say we believe God is good while our hearts stay discouraged in the dark. The most harrowing power of shame might be its stealth in convincing us that silencing our pain behind statements of God’s goodness is spiritual, when really it’s just a churchy form of self-sufficiency.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “Grasping to find the purpose in your pain may be the very thing preventing you from experiencing comfort and even transformation in your suffering.”

8. “Grasping to find the purpose in your pain may be the very thing preventing you from experiencing comfort and even transformation in your suffering.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “Shame wants us to believe the story that weakness is a private, avoidable problem we should overcome by ourselves.”

9. “Shame wants us to believe the story that weakness is a private, avoidable problem we should overcome by ourselves.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “Shame is the stealthy, compelling energy evil is constantly using to distract us from living in the story where grace is here.”

10. “Shame is the stealthy, compelling energy evil is constantly using to distract us from living in the story where grace is here.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “All pain triggers a reminder, deeper than thought, buzzing through blood and bone, that we are fragile and finite.”

11. “All pain triggers a reminder, deeper than thought, buzzing through blood and bone, that we are fragile and finite.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “Holiness can look only like Jesus. It will sound like crying, like groaning. It will speak with force, with fury. It will include peace and gentleness, but it will never be stoic.”

12. “Holiness can look only like Jesus. It will sound like crying, like groaning. It will speak with force, with fury. It will include peace and gentleness, but it will never be stoic.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “Love won’t come easy and it often will feel like exposure. Love will look like weakness and sometimes feels like dying. A soul alive in Christ allows itself to be repositioned. The Sprit turns us towards the place old self would naturally resist and our consent will be the continual reversal that forms the love of Christ into our memories, our neural networks, our inner most being.”

13. “Love won’t come easy and it often will feel like exposure. Love will look like weakness and sometimes feels like dying. A soul alive in Christ allows itself to be repositioned. The Sprit turns us towards the place old self would naturally resist and our consent will be the continual reversal that forms the love of Christ into our memories, our neural networks, our inner most being.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “Sin is expecting ourselves and others to be miniature self-saviors who can rise above our broken bodies and broken stories and eliminate suffering by the power of our own determined truth-telling.”

14. “Sin is expecting ourselves and others to be miniature self-saviors who can rise above our broken bodies and broken stories and eliminate suffering by the power of our own determined truth-telling.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “The seemingly impossible task of enduring suffering and rejoicing in it is born in the impossible reality that God became human. The implausibility of having joy in a body with an incurable disease is made possible by God in a body. The possibility of hope in your despair is alive, here, as close as your breath.”

15. “The seemingly impossible task of enduring suffering and rejoicing in it is born in the impossible reality that God became human. The implausibility of having joy in a body with an incurable disease is made possible by God in a body. The possibility of hope in your despair is alive, here, as close as your breath.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “The loneliness of realizing there’s a weakness inside us that no amount of effort or faith can eradicate makes us feel like exiles. Living with suffering that lingers can feel like being an unwanted refugee in a country blind to pain. You feel outside grace, outside light, out of reach of what you think makes life good. Your body holds a story quite different than the story your culture says is worth living. And you’re not sure you want to, or even can, move forward with this body in this story.”

16. “The loneliness of realizing there’s a weakness inside us that no amount of effort or faith can eradicate makes us feel like exiles. Living with suffering that lingers can feel like being an unwanted refugee in a country blind to pain. You feel outside grace, outside light, out of reach of what you think makes life good. Your body holds a story quite different than the story your culture says is worth living. And you’re not sure you want to, or even can, move forward with this body in this story.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “Something unspoken can’t be known. It becomes a private asphyxiation, a see stuck in the throat of an individual body staining for the oxygen of God’s love.”

17. “Something unspoken can’t be known. It becomes a private asphyxiation, a see stuck in the throat of an individual body staining for the oxygen of God’s love.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “What if self-sufficiency was always a bankrupt lie, and suffering simply demonstrates its poverty? What if suffering isn’t ruining our selves but re-creating them? Suffering is an invitation to live and tell the story truer and more satisfying than pain-free ease. It is an invitation to know and be known by the God who entered the human story intent on transforming death into life. The presence of prolonged suffering begs us to remember our true story and its suffering Lord.”

18. “What if self-sufficiency was always a bankrupt lie, and suffering simply demonstrates its poverty? What if suffering isn’t ruining our selves but re-creating them? Suffering is an invitation to live and tell the story truer and more satisfying than pain-free ease. It is an invitation to know and be known by the God who entered the human story intent on transforming death into life. The presence of prolonged suffering begs us to remember our true story and its suffering Lord.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “When pain of any kind makes us feel less ourselves and less capable of engaging in relationships, we experience it as suffering.”

19. “When pain of any kind makes us feel less ourselves and less capable of engaging in relationships, we experience it as suffering.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “This faith we possess is not a list of beliefs that remains effectual only when we can feel their truth.”

20. “This faith we possess is not a list of beliefs that remains effectual only when we can feel their truth.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “I reject the notion that I am an individual being, built by the bulk of my successes, suffering in the wake of my failures, a tree rooted in determination or withering in its lack.”

21. “I reject the notion that I am an individual being, built by the bulk of my successes, suffering in the wake of my failures, a tree rooted in determination or withering in its lack.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “We who mourn carry vision the world needs. Through the lenses of tears, we can truly see.24 Something is broken that God will make whole.”

22. “We who mourn carry vision the world needs. Through the lenses of tears, we can truly see.24 Something is broken that God will make whole.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “Sin is any Christian’s response to pain, poverty, and weakness that assumes they are individual problems to solve rather than places to patiently embody the solidarity of Jesus.”

23. “Sin is any Christian’s response to pain, poverty, and weakness that assumes they are individual problems to solve rather than places to patiently embody the solidarity of Jesus.”

— K.J. Ramsey

K.J. Ramsey Quote: “Living with long-term suffering in American culture feels like being off-key. Suffering quiets and slows, but our culture prefers a crescendo.”

24. “Living with long-term suffering in American culture feels like being off-key. Suffering quiets and slows, but our culture prefers a crescendo.”

— K.J. Ramsey

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS APPLE

Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

COURAGE MOTIVATIONAL STRENGTH

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

LIFE SPIRITUALITY

Save image...
Permalink
Open in new tab
Copy quote text

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 20 K.J. Ramsey Quotes.

All the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters, and more.

Thank you!

Please check your email.