R.J. Blizzard > Quotes

“In life, there are as many critical stages as there are stars, most of the time we cannot see them. They are hidden by storm clouds or bright light. However, there are certain crucial junctures in life; even the blind can easily witness with a little soulful reflection. These moments, lived and experienced properly, bring beauty and grace into the life of every human willing to see.”
― RJ Blizzard

“A lifetime of eating at the foot of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil had produced a vision of saints and sinners. My heart ached to embark on a journey of liberation and taste of the Tree of Life where saint and sinner are one in love. Every saint has a story, and all sinners have glorious pages yet to be written.”
― R.J. Blizzard, Incarnate: The Incredible Journey of Edward Mayus

“The courage to live in the present, between time and timelessness. No matter the circumstance, it is where life is found.”
― RJ Blizzard

“Everything does not happen for a reason. Believing this does not ease the pain for anyone. It hides it.”
― RJ Blizzard

“Purpose and reason? Purpose and reason are not the same thing. Reason seeks to understand. Purpose requires faith. Reason is attained. Purpose is revealed. Reason is acquired by works. Purpose is endowed with grace. And wisdom is the combination of both.”
― RJ Blizzard

“We are all walking a thin line between the sacred and the ordinary. The two are never far from each other, and sometimes they are the same”
― RJ Blizzard

“It is becoming apparent that authentic journeys are not measured by time. The only time is the present, and that is not time at all but, the present just is. This present moment is all we have.”
― R.J. Blizzard, Incarnate: The Incredible Journey of Edward Mayus

“Is God the Grand Chess Master? Is life a game of strategy that I should wonder what His next move will be? Some call this strategy . . . ‘God's will.' Where does the Devil come into this? I never could figure this game of life out. Am I playing against the Devil or God . . . or both? The deck is stacked. Poor Adam never had a chance. Neither do I.”
― RJ Blizzard

“People don’t like surprises,” Caine shot back.
“People love surprises Caine; it's change, they hate. Everything that is living is always changing. If it’s not changing, it’s dying.”
― R.J. Blizzard

“Time heals nothing; it merely manages the hurt through a lens of unreality. The only salvation is to walk into your reality”
― R.J. Blizzard, Incarnate: The Incredible Journey of Edward Mayus

“There are no dead ends in life's journey; there are no crossroads, no forks in the road. People who chose not to see reality, see the world as a tangled maze of intersections, forks in the road, and dead ends. These are illusions of people who follow the well trampled wide path woven out by others. This is not their true path. Life's true sojourn reveals a long winding narrow path that only you can choose. Few have the courage to walk it.”
― RJ Blizzard

“Purpose is how God controls the randomness of life. Without it, you’re just silver ball in the arcade game of life.”
― RJ Blizzard

“The incarnation was a mere theological concept taught to them over the years to be doctrine and held as a foundation for their faith. Incarnation is not something to believe in, but it is meant to experience.”
― RJ Blizzard

“Maggie thinks it's part of God's plan like God has people murdered and tortured for some inexplicable reason that we will all have to trust. We will understand one day when we get to see the re-runs up in heaven, and we will all applaud at what a wonderful plan it was. Does God then take a bow and accept a cosmic Oscar”
― RJ Blizzard

“Edward, trusting in beliefs does not produce faith, it just regurgitates spiritual pooh-pooh.”
― RJ Blizzard

“The real tragedy is; they rely on each other for the very existence of their identity, which they confuse with their reality. They both need each other. The broken need the ‘perceived perfect’ to validate a hope and a future trust to substitute in their heart that one day, maybe one day, God will bless them. The beautifully blessed need the broken to validate that God has shown His favor on their worth. Both views rest on a cornerstone from the Father of Lies who keeps them blind, brokenhearted, and in bondage”
― RJ Blizzard

“Everyone feels they are on a journey, but if you cannot see reality, you are merely on a cosmic treadmill, trapped in time. A person can spend a lifetime going nowhere”
― RJ Blizzard

“Life’s journey is a narrow path that reveals a God to trust. Few take it. Trust only occurs in relationship. Our relationship is the pearl of great price that is already buried in the field of our hearts. The journey is the life-long excavation of our heart.”
― RJ Blizzard

“Love chained becomes bondage”
― RJ Blizzard

“Religion searches for reason, and never finds purpose. They think the purpose is to have better reasons. The people are blind, and their religion does not want them to see. Religion gives them reasons based on principles instead of eyes to see.”
― RJ Blizzard

“Beliefs are not the thing. They are the results of your journey.”
― RJ Blizzard

“You will not know love if you do not know suffering, and you will never suffer if you have never loved.”
― RJ Blizzard

“It’s easier to love the idol than to love Him. The path is narrow, and few find it because they are afraid. We have made God into an idol to fear because we made ourselves to be worthless. The object of God's love has been manipulated to be contemptible.”
― RJ Blizzard

“You studied and did your duty, believed and did what you were told with a promise of a life that is already here. Life is just over those hills. You were told you were on a journey; when all along your sorry ass was sitting inside that car analyzing every belief known to man. Your path will reveal the truth about you. Nobody cares what you believe; they care about who you are.”
― RJ Blizzard

“Edward, maybe you're seeking the wrong answer? You are asking the wrong question. It's not what you believe, but how you choose to believe. Everyone believes something. Even nothing is something.”
― RJ Blizzard

“What your father never understood, is that what he loved most about her was her unbridled love and freedom to live her own life. He loved her colors and viewed her like paint.”
― RJ Blizzard

“Remembering is redemption.”
― RJ Blizzard

“He cements his existence in an echo of time, but the journey demands him to change. He cannot see; his identity is a mask. Nothing in this world stays the same. The path unveils our identity. Our identity is not created but revealed.”
― RJ Blizzard

“The irony of the human condition is that it is the narrow gate to life. Few find it because they are too fearful to look”
― RJ Blizzard