A Quote by Mike Yaconelli

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

Mike Yaconelli

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Broken Common Could Cross Godly Idea Jesus Landed Ordinary People Screwed Screwed-Up Up

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Mike Yaconelli
American - Writer
July 24, 1942 - October 30, 2003

Screwed-up people settle fights through violence. Screwed-up people start wars that could kill millions. Normal people settle fights through cookies, cakes, and pies. Normal people are fat.

Christopher Titus

And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.

John Green

What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort. Christians come together because they have all been loved by Jesus himself. They are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus' sake.

D. A. Carson

Just as you should never confuse the law with common justice, intelligence should not be confused with common sense. Some of the brightest people in the world have no idea how to cross the road.

Terry Wogan

Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.

Anne Lamott

Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for surrendering our 'godly gift' of reason when we cross their mental thresholds?

Christopher Hitchens

People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.

Ned Vizzini

We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up.

Henry Mintzberg

Who is Jesus to me? Jesus is the Word made Flesh. Jesus is the Bread of Life. Jesus is the Victim offered for our sins on the cross. Jesus is the sacrifice offered at holy Mass for the sins of the world and for mine. Jesus is the Word - to be spoken. Jesus is the Truth - to be told. Jesus is the Way - to be walked. Jesus is the Light - to be lit. Jesus is the Life - to be lived. Jesus is the Love - to be loved

Mother Teresa

We're not godly because we're perfect. We're godly because we're perfectly broken.

Tedashii

You should be more careful. You could have broken your neck or as big as you are landed on someone and killed them. (Tory)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!

John Piper

Jesus represents a point of common ground an esteemed rabbi to the Jew, a god to the Hindu, an enlightened one to the Buddhist, a great prophet to the Muslim. Even to the New Age guru, Jesus is the pinnacle of God-consciousness. At the same time, Jesus is the divider. None but Christians see Him as a member of the Godhead on an exclusive mission to repair the broken world.

Philip Yancey

For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a godly person. Yet when I look at the yesterdays of my life, what I see, mostly, is a broken, irregular path littered with mistakes and failure. I have had temporary successes and isolated moments of closeness to God, but I long for the continuing presence of Jesus.

Mike Yaconelli

The most common way Jesus comes into our lives is through a broken heart.