Casey Tygrett > Quotes

“Forgiveness isn’t about paperwork. It’s about presence. It is the way we walk in the world, never to return again. To do anything else is to die as a refugee, a person without a holy country, who is in search of life. The”
― Casey Tygrett, Becoming Curious: A Spiritual Practice of Asking Questions

“There’s a difficult line to walk between what we need to know and what falls into the realm of mystery. Walking that line often wears on our nerves and causes incredible tension, and so we settle for easy answers. We stop asking questions. We give up. We begin to lose the one thing that fiercely energizes the transformation of our souls—something beautiful, poetic, joyful, and happily disruptive: curiosity. Curiosity”
― Casey Tygrett, Becoming Curious: A Spiritual Practice of Asking Questions

“The process of becoming curious is the movement away from simply living by what and how, and moving into the beautifully ambiguous and possibility-laden world of God’s why and all that comes with it. What”
― Casey Tygrett, Becoming Curious: A Spiritual Practice of Asking Questions

“without our memories, growth and formation simply wander into oblivion”
― Casey Tygrett

“We cannot experience and memorize the stories of Jesus without seeing his radical inclusion - taking those who were left on the edges of society, left to their own solitude, and bringing them into his Kingdom.”
― Casey Tygrett, As I Recall: Discovering the Place of Memories in Our Spiritual Life

“To step out, to lead in an intense and difficult time, is not simply about the guts that it takes to move forward. The courage comes from a place of acknowledgement that while failure is not an option, it is, in fact, part of our makeup and presence.”
― Casey Tygrett, As I Recall: Discovering the Place of Memories in Our Spiritual Life

“Any process of change requires a form of dying”
― Casey Tygrett, As I Recall: Discovering the Place of Memories in Our Spiritual Life

“Without grace, our failures cannot become wisdom.”
― Casey Tygrett, As I Recall: Discovering the Place of Memories in Our Spiritual Life

“The destructive quality of spiritual amnesia is that we forget the promise in light of the problem, and we also forget the times when the provision was made for us and we found ourselves standing safe and secure on the other side.”
― Casey Tygrett, As I Recall: Discovering the Place of Memories in Our Spiritual Life