Jeff Cook > Quotes

“It may take years of struggle and confession, battle and failure. The places in my life where I struggle with deadly sins are matters of a decade or more of focus, repentance, shame, and grace. I’ve traveled some long roads simply to lessen the depth of some of my failures and addictions — just to get to a place where I can receive fresh grace and encouragement.”
― Jeff Cook, Seven: The Deadly Sins and the Beatitudes

“Heaven wants to engulf us here and now. It is chasing us, enlivening us, beginning to grow right here in our midst. It’s as though the renewal of all things cannot wait to get started. It is peaking its head in wherever it can.”
― Jeff Cook, Everything New: Reimagining Heaven and Hell

“Hope then isn’t that someday I will escape. Hope is that someday I will be transformed”
― Jeff Cook, Everything New: Reimagining Heaven and Hell

“resurrection insists that the darkness is actually surrounded by light—and the light is growing.”
― Jeff Cook, Everything New: Reimagining Heaven and Hell

“Entering dark places and raising human beings to a new kind of life was Jesus’ primary activity.”
― Jeff Cook, Everything New: Reimagining Heaven and Hell

“Jesus believed that God’s will being done on earth as in heaven was God’s chief priority.”
― Jeff Cook, Everything New: Reimagining Heaven and Hell

“the cross and resurrection are the sign to all that evil cannot overcome the life in God’s Son.”
― Jeff Cook, Everything New: Reimagining Heaven and Hell

“When paradigms change, the world itself changes with them … during revolutions scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments in places they have looked before.”
― Jeff Cook, Everything New: Reimagining Heaven and Hell

“Out of what was unsettled and ugly, God crafted a new creation.”
― Jeff Cook, Everything New: Reimagining Heaven and Hell