Thomas H. Green > Quotes

“Fortunately the Lord is patient and understanding, and does write straight with our crooked lines.”
― Thomas H. Green, Weeds Among the Wheat

“We have felt that we came to know God by means of these thoughts and images, but in reality it is impossible for the infinite God to be captured by our finite thoughts, images, and feelings. Now, when everything suddenly becomes dark, when our ordinary ways of knowing are blinded, it is because the light of God has suddenly been turned on”
― Thomas H. Green, When the Well Runs Dry: Prayer Beyond the Beginnings

“Like a young couple courting, our love had to be nurtured and strengthened by frequent presence before we could begin to discover that love is deeper than presence, and can be”
― Thomas H. Green, When the Well Runs Dry: Prayer Beyond the Beginnings

“This is why I urge you to dismiss every clever or subtle thought, no matter how holy or valuable. Cover it over with a thick cloud of forgetting because in this life only love can touch God as he is in himself, never knowledge. As long as we live in these mortal bodies the keenness of our intellect remains dulled by material limitations whenever it deals with”
― Thomas H. Green, When the Well Runs Dry: Prayer Beyond the Beginnings

“Rather, the reason for our loving surrender to God is that we desire to be able to love as we are loved,”
― Thomas H. Green, When the Well Runs Dry: Prayer Beyond the Beginnings