115 quotes found
“They forget that for a Creator to create, He must be greater than His creation, thus He must be by definition not less than emotional.”
“When everything all in a moment comes together, surprisingly perfect, it doesnt prove theres a loving God; but if there is, isnt it perfect when all in a moment, God proves how surprisingly He loves?”
“Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased facts the new trues.”
“Remember, this type doesnt really believe Hell forgive them, by repenting they are trying to earn what they do not think, in any case, He will pay.”
“So in a man’s mind, he appraises, negotiates, defines, delineates, weighs the information, and that includes God. As you can see, this is a relationship of management, not trust. You don’t trust th...”
“In Joy, to lose one’s life is to gain it, and Joy never loses an opportunity to be lost in the other.”
“But here I’d like to add to what the Tempter’s Manual suggests. Depression, at its finest, is not a Future that they cannot hopefully construct, nor a shamed Past that hounds them, but an agonizing...”
“Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional —the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.”
“That’s where thinking started, where thinking stopped, where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed, nor even dreamed of changing her father. Her dreams now played variation...”
“Trust is crazy. You are a risky, risky, God. I didn’t sign up to be Amazing Trust Boy, and I did not sign up for Danger God. You’re flatly not safe…”
“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-Buy”—well now, that could very well revolutionize the Christian church in America.”
“You don’t 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, takin...”
“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 w...”
“If God’s suggesting that I am expected to do good and also obligated to manufacture a genuine desire for it, this boat’s sunk, still sitting on the trailer in the driveway. A stack of things need 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.”
“Everyone needs to calm down! Okay, you got a weird cookie. So what? I don’t mean to swat your ego here, buddy, but this smacks a little narcissistic for me. God is not trying to communicate to you ...”
“The Bible is the one book we’ve most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way.”
“Still, despite all our noise, this universe hinges on a melody, that’s the dismal truth of it. Oh, we can propagandize all we wish, it doesn’t change the fabric of things. This universe was not mad...”
“I don’t even like the phrase ‘opportunity to sin’ because it implies the opportunity to obey.”
