21 quotes found
“Prayer makes no sense apart from waiting.”
“Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.”
“Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.”
“This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.”
“But grace and effort are not opposites. Grace and earning are opposites.”
“Ironic that those most holy are least likely to see themselves that way.”
“Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and uph...”
“Author wonders whether God's proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to world-weary man as much as humbling him.”
“One of the most convicting things I have recently come to realize about Jesus is that He was never, not once, in a hurry.”
“Silence is the room we create for the searching of God, where we hear His voice and follow.”
“Love cant cover over the sins we cover upIf you want God and others to cover over your sin, stop covering it up.”
“There is too wide a gap, for most of us, between what we say and what we mean. Between our words and our thoughts. The first thing the Prophet Isaiah said when he saw the living and exalted God was...”
“Laughterjust good bone-shaking, belly-jiggling, light-in-the-head laughter, is a sure sign of health. The only one who hates it is Satan and all his wannabes.”
“We honestly think that we ourselves and those around us should be proficient with spiritual power, moving and acting with agility and endurance, wisdom and purity, able to conquer long-established ...”
“The Pharisees had an ethic of avoidance, and Jesus had an ethic of involvement.”
“For the place God calls us into isnt doubt freehow can any place where we walk by faith and not by sight be that? No, the holy wild is where we have driving and haunting doubts, God-hungry doubts t...”
“Gods definition of going well is unique, distinct, almost eccentric. His definition of wellness is not about health, finances, or job security. Its not about unfailing protection from the vagaries ...”
“Love can’t cover over the sins we cover up…If you want God and others to cover over your sin, stop covering it up.”
“Laughter—just good bone-shaking, belly-jiggling, light-in-the-head laughter, is a sure sign of health. The only one who hates it is Satan and all his wannabes.”
“For the place God calls us into isn’t doubt free—how can any place where we walk by faith and not by sight be that? No, the holy wild is where we have driving and haunting doubts, God-hungry doubts...”
