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“The depth is simply the height inverted, as sin is the index of moral grandeur. The cry is not only truly human, but divine as well. God is deeper than the deepest depth in man. He is holier than our deepest sin is deep. There is no depth so deep to us as when God reveals his holiness in dealing with our sin.... [And so] think more of the depth of God than the depth of your cry. The worst thing that can happen to a man is to have no God to cry to out of the depth.”
― A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
― A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
“I want my prayers, and the prayers of my friends, to ricochet off the rock faces of mountains, reverberate down the corridors of shopping malls, sound ocean deeps, water arid deserts, find a foothold in fetid swamps, encounter poets as they search for the accurate word, mingle their fragrance with wildflowers in Alpine Meadows, sing with the looms of Canadian lakes.”
― Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
― Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
“When it comes to doing something about what is wrong in the world, Jesus is best known for his fondness for the minute, the invisible, the quiet, the slow – yeast, salt, seeds, light. And manure.”
― Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
― Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
“Prayer is a refusal to live as an outsider to my God and my own soul.”
― Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
― Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
“So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.”
― The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language
― The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language
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