Andrew Farley > Quotes

“The bottom line is that if you appeal to Jesus as your priest, what place is there for the law in your life? You call on a man from Nazareth, from the tribe of Judah, who shares no family lineage with Aaron,”
― Andrew Farley, The Naked Gospel: Truth You May Never Hear in Church

“You can’t find relaxation if you try to make Jesus fit with the old way of law-based religion.”
― Andrew Farley, Relaxing with God: The Neglected Spiritual Discipline

“So God’s not up in heaven swirling around and around in some barbershop chair, with his face toward you when you’re good and his back to you when you’ve blown it. His face is always toward you.”
― Andrew Farley, Relaxing with God: The Neglected Spiritual Discipline

“We look to hide or change our feelings rather than realizing it is our thinking that needs to change. Try”
― Andrew Farley, The Hurt & The Healer

“We buy the lie that our value comes from what those around us say or think about us. If they feel okay about us, then we feel okay too.”
― Andrew Farley, The Hurt & The Healer

“We have two options: we can live in the beautiful reality of who we really are, or we can live in a debilitating delusion.”
― Andrew Farley, Relaxing with God: The Neglected Spiritual Discipline

“or Levi, or any other qualified priest of the law. You call on an outsider, a renegade, a table turner.”
― Andrew Farley, The Naked Gospel: Truth You May Never Hear in Church

“Law crumbles religious dreams and shuts everybody up, revealing they are prisoners of sin.”
― Andrew Farley, Relaxing with God: The Neglected Spiritual Discipline

“unlearning. Underneath all the layers of religiosity that we’ve added over the years, our God has already adorned the halls of our heart with his exuberant love.”
― Andrew Farley, Relaxing with God: The Neglected Spiritual Discipline

“The belief systems we have about ourselves and about God determine many of our everyday thoughts, which then dictate our emotions.”
― Andrew Farley, The Hurt & The Healer

“We relax in the grand beauty of God’s perfect promises.”
― Andrew Farley, Relaxing with God: The Neglected Spiritual Discipline

“What if you truly are who God says you are? After all, when our view of ourselves disagrees with God’s view of us, who’s right?”
― Andrew Farley, Relaxing with God: The Neglected Spiritual Discipline

“The phrases “ask forgiveness” and “ask for forgiveness” do not appear even once in any New Testament epistle. In fact, while these phrases appear about a dozen times in the Qur’an, they don’t show up anywhere in the Bible at all! While it’s a very religious move to ask for forgiveness, the plain fact is that God works within a blood-based economy, so it’s not about asking.”
― Andrew Farley, Relaxing with God: The Neglected Spiritual Discipline

“We take in the splendor of the new covenant and celebrate with amazement.”
― Andrew Farley, Relaxing with God: The Neglected Spiritual Discipline

“In God’s economy, there’s only one thing that brings forgiveness. It’s not an apology, or a confession: it’s blood. Only blood sacrifice brings forgiveness (Hebrews 9:22). Jesus shed His blood only once. He’ll never shed His blood again. Why not? Because it worked the first time! Therefore, we were forgiven once for all our sins. As Jesus said, “It is finished” (John 19:30). We’re as forgiven right now as we’ll ever be!”
― Andrew Farley, Twisted Scripture: Untangling 45 Lies Christians Have Been Told