Rueben P. Job > Quotes

“We live in a world convinced that security is the most reliable context for freedom. The bitter irony of this conviction is that the havens of security we create are unable to provide the freedom we seek. The quest for national, economic, or personal security too often generates compulsive patterns of life at the expense of genuine freedom. Christian tradition offers an alternative. In biblical perspective, it is obedience rather than security that forms the proper context for freedom. Thus, the Christian vision of freedom is focused through the lens of a paradox: “Whoever cares for his own safety is lost; but if a man will let himself be lost for my sake, he will find his true self” (Matt. 16:25, NEB). —John S. Mogabgab, “Editor’s Introduction,” Weavings (May/June 1988)”
― Rueben P. Job, A Guide to Prayer for All Who Walk with God

“We can also recite the failures of institutions and systems that are near and dear to us. The good news is that the past can be forgiven.”
― Rueben P. Job, Three Simple Rules: A Wesleyan Way of Living

“Today, how do we intend to hear the heartbeat of God? What will we do to make it possible for us to hear God’s comforting, peacegiving, and guiding voice? Rueben P. Job”
― Rueben P. Job, Listen: Praying in a Noisy World

“Offering of Self to God O Lord, we all have things we need to release. With your help we will lay aside all in life that burdens us, leaving behind those things that do not matter and clinging only to the things that do. Amen.”
― Rueben P. Job, A Guide to Prayer for All Who Walk with God

“So by God's grace I take courage today, and with all the faith and trust I can muster, I say yes to God's call.”
― Rueben P. Job, When You Pray: Daily Practices for Prayerful Living

“what about the material stuff that keeps us fed and housed? And what about our attention and our priorities? As we pray into our lifestyle, we encounter the issue of materialism. What is it that holds our attention—God or stuff? —Daniel Wolpert, Creating a Life with God”
― Rueben P. Job, A Guide to Prayer for All Who Walk with God

“Vulnerability before God means really believing in God’s providential love for us and God’s loving presence in the world. After years of obscurity, Jesus went into the desert at that moment when he felt God calling him to begin his public ministry. Where would all this lead? He didn’t know, but he trusted God. Gradually he realized that his ministry meant a life of total economic insecurity—“Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head” (Matt. 8:20,”
― Rueben P. Job, A Guide to Prayer for All Who Walk with God