Diane Comer > Quotes

“I’ve learned that when I confess my sins, my flaws, my guilt, and my failures to God, He takes the softest washcloth to my mess and bathes me in beauty. I lean into His warmth, breathing in the scent of Him, wanting more. From admitting that I lost my temper and shouldn’t have spoken so derisively to my husband again, I progress to shedding all the pride and defensiveness that makes me prickly and resistant to soul intimacy. I shed the part of me that pretends to be perfect, the part that keeps missing the point of the cross, which is redemption. Not simply to wash me clean of my sins, as magnificent as that is, nor to protect me from God’s wrath, as undeserving as I am, but to redeem me from all the mess my sin-infected DNA dictates.”
― Diane Comer, He Speaks in the Silence: Finding Intimacy with God by Learning to Listen

“To choose surrender is to choose something better than control, better than the perfectly manicured life. To choose surrender and all the messiness that goes with it is to choose to sit at Jesus’ feet in unfettered abandon, to hear and understand the better thing that each of us so desperately needs.”
― Diane Comer, He Speaks in the Silence: Finding Intimacy with God by Learning to Listen