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- Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the…
- A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
- May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the…
- God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
- I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is…
- God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.
- The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive…
- Nevertheless, the central affirmation of the Reformation stands: through no merit of ours, but by his mercy, WE HAVE BEEN RESTORED to a right relationship…
- Do you honestly believe God likes you, not just loves you because theologically God has to love you?
- Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it
- We are made for God, and nothing less will ever satisfy us
- Being the beloved is our identity, the core of our existence. Â It is not merely a lofty thought, an inspiring idea, or one name…
- Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. Â This is the true self. Â Every other identity is illusion. Â God's love for you…
- Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing…
- I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.
- The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our…
- In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.
- All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God
- I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
- Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.
- We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him.
- The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!
- God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to apply spiritual cosmetics…
- Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today. It is…
- Jesus reveals a God who does not demand but who gives; who does not oppress but who raises up; who does not wound but who…
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- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi