115 quotes found
“Trust becomes the only road home, back to love.”
“There is a mathematics to all his relationships, underlying each and every one. He wants it to all add up in his head and he wants to do the adding. And should someone step outside his ciphers, the...”
“Trust is crazy. You are a risky, risky, God. I didnt sign up to be Amazing Trust Boy, and I did not sign up for Danger God. Youre flatly not safe”
“The Adversary, of course, simply wants them to lay down their sins, guilt and all, and follow Him. But this type holds on to their sinfulness and their guilt for it, because otherwise, theyd have n...”
“It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing true and lit with surprise.”
“Indeed, if their wristbands asked them the question: What-Would-Jesus-Buywell now, that could very well revolutionize the Christian church in America.”
“Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, t...”
“Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it His ever-reaching outward for any hand that might reach back. At His love, I tremble yet believe.”
“And once their imaginations are liberated, they begin glimpse the grand interconnectedness of all things. Eternity begins to peek out from behind the everyday things and they see the trappings of a...”
“When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.”
“With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook that prissy little virtue, Temperance for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly un...”
“And keep them thinking in terms of 'being good' as this is not an end so much as a means to something else happiness, respect, self-esteem, etc And whatever their true end is, take it away, and so ...”
“You dont change the world by telling it what to do, sitting at home, and telling it what you believe. You believe by throwing yourself into it. Making a leap, getting involved, then waiting, taking...”
“Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.”
“Life, liberty and the pursuit of happy hour, the long weekend, the all-inclusive island resort, the sunny beach vacation. Happiness is somewhere else, someplace with boat drinks, some secret, dista...”
“If we blind them to The Adversary decrease their desire for The Desire while at the same time encourage them to do anything else they desire with increasing freedom of choice, then eventually we sn...”
“They think that if they were allowed to do anything they desired, they would be satisfied and the more desires the better. But all desires divorced from The Desire eventually collapse in on themsel...”
“If Gods suggesting that I am expected to do good and also obligated to manufacture a genuine desire for it, this boats sunk, still sitting on the trailer in the driveway. A stack of things need to ...”
“Everyone needs to calm down! Okay, you got a weird cookie. So what? I dont mean to swat your ego here, buddy, but this smacks a little narcissistic for me. God is not trying to communicate to you t...”
“The Bible is the one book weve most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way.”
