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“I realized that my desire for meaning and love and approval has been attached to achieving and performing and succeeding, and when I feel I’m failing at doing these things, I become depressed.”
― Thrashing About with God: Finding Faith on the Other Side of Everything
― Thrashing About with God: Finding Faith on the Other Side of Everything
“Most people don’t even try to learn the ways of the kingdom; they just go about their days with a practical agnosticism, hoping things work out, tossing up prayers like they hope to score on a Jesus lottery ticket.”
― Moving Mountains: Praying with Passion, Confidence, and Authority
― Moving Mountains: Praying with Passion, Confidence, and Authority
“The kind of spiritual life and disciplines needed to sustain the Christian life are quiet, repetitive, and ordinary. I often want to skip the boring, daily stuff to get to the thrill of an edgy faith. But it’s in the dailiness of the Christian faith—the making the bed, the doing the dishes, the praying for our enemies, the reading the Bible, the quiet, the small—that God’s transformation takes root and grows.”
― Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
― Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
“Following Jesus is about having your paradigms shift as you navigate a wide range of emotions while living the big life Jesus invites us into.”
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
“I realize that many dear followers of Christ have been taught that God only speaks to his sons and daughters through the Bible. The irony of that theology is this: that’s not what the Bible teaches! The Scriptures are filled with stories of God speaking to his people—intimately, personally. Adam”
― Moving Mountains: Praying with Passion, Confidence, and Authority
― Moving Mountains: Praying with Passion, Confidence, and Authority
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