Mike Donehey > Quotes

“Okay, God, I have these dreams and these desires and talents, and they seem to be leading me in a particular direction. So show me where they need to shift and change to be Your dreams and Your desires.”
― Mike Donehey, Finding God's Life for My Will: His Presence Is the Plan

“Let yourself go. Let others in. This is the essence of being made in God's image.”
― Mike Donehey

“God's nature is love, because God is a relationship.”
― Mike Donehey, We Are Cathedrals

“When we ask God to draw near, what we're really asking is for Him to make us aware of Him.”
― Mike Donehey, We Are Cathedrals

“I've come to believe that God is much less interested in what we do with our lives and much more concerned with how and why we live our lives.”
― Mike Donehey, Finding God's Life for My Will: His Presence Is the Plan

“In Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov, the following words shone brighter than my best attempts to sum up my thoughts:

I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage...in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come up to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but justify all that has happened.”
― Mike Donehey, Finding God's Life for My Will: His Presence Is the Plan

“There is no longer a fight between the secular and the sacred. If the Spirit dwells in us, then whether it be school or Starbucks, we make the world sacred, just by walking through the door. It's all sacred. It's all holy.”
― Mike Donehey, We Are Cathedrals

“We do battle with our minds and deceptive hearts, that we may might lay our souls down upon the grace of God.”
― Mike Donehey, We Are Cathedrals