Jesus of Nazareth

What an amazing passage. I could write about this for pages and pages but i will limit myself for the sake of my classmates haha
First of all, i loved the quote "Unless you change your life and become like a child, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven." Children are innocent and are untainted by the world. They have little or no worldly desires. They have not yet sinned. Wouldnt it be nice to be a kid again.....haha
I cant really choose a favorite excerpt from this passage but the closest to a favorite would be the one about the prodigal son from the gospel of Luke. The son takes his share of his father's estate and goes wild with it. He spends every last dime and is forced to do labor to make money and survive. He returns to his father and says "Father I have sinned against God and against you, I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Let me be like one of your hired men." In response to this the father ran to his son, embraced him, kissed him, threw a beautiful robe on his back, and gave him a plentiful feast. Jesus told this story to describe God's love for us. We have all sinned, whether its frivolously spending money, lying, cheating, stealing, etc...But God, our father, is running after us...ready to embrace us, kiss us, give us a plentiful feast and forgive us for those sins. Later in the excerpt the father says "But it was proper to rejoice and make merry and rejoice, for your brother was dead, and he has come back to life; he was lost, and is found." What a beautiful thing for a father to say. We are dead and lost. With the love of God in our hearts we are alive and found.