Mandy Smith > Quotes

“All of life is a confession of our doctrine.”
― Mandy Smith, Unfettered: Imagining a Childlike Faith beyond the Baggage of Western Culture

“God does big things. To us they seem very small. I’m learning not to despise the day of small things.”
― Mandy Smith, Unfettered: Imagining a Childlike Faith beyond the Baggage of Western Culture

“I came to see that no Christian leadership can grow from the demanding of rights. And”
― Mandy Smith, The Vulnerable Pastor: How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry

“As Simone Weil so beautifully puts it, “Grace fills empty spaces but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.”7”
― Mandy Smith, Unfettered: Imagining a Childlike Faith beyond the Baggage of Western Culture

“Second, she reflects on her old desire to meet with God for a “business meeting” only to find that God had in mind a “picnic.” What a trade-off! The picnic sounds like an echo of the wondrous affirmation of the Westminster Shorter Catechism that our chief end is to glorify God and enjoy God forever.”
― Mandy Smith, Unfettered: Imagining a Childlike Faith beyond the Baggage of Western Culture