Deferred Hope Quotes

“King David in Psalm 37 writes "Take delight in the Giver, and He will give you the desires of your heart," intimating that the secret to finding our way in the world is more about cooperating with God than appeasing God.

That the Giver of life is also the Giver of our desires, which means that life has an invitational co-creative nature to it...

Why do we always believe that the path of our deepest desire would be so far from the path that God would have us walk? How is the path of desire so different from the path to the Giver of that desire?”
― Scott Erickson, Say Yes: Discover the Surprising Life Beyond the Death of a Dream

“Why do we always believe that the path of our deepest desire would be so far from the path that God would have us walk? How is the path of desire so different from the path to the Giver of that desire?”
― Scott Erickson, Say Yes: Discover the Surprising Life Beyond the Death of a Dream