Jordan Carlson
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“You see, the verdict is in. And now I perform on the basis of the verdict. Because He loves me and He accepts me, I do not have to do things just to build up my résumé. I do not have to do things to make me look good. I can do things for the joy of doing them. I can help people to help people – not so I can feel better about myself, not so I can fill up the emptiness.”
― The Freedom of Self Forgetfulness
― The Freedom of Self Forgetfulness
“We are commanded by Jesus in Matthew 9:38 to pray that the Lord would send out workers into his harvest field (and we should take it as a corollary that if we pray for that, we must also be willing to be part of that mission by being workers in that harvest field).”
― Why We Pray
― Why We Pray
“At first, as the months went by, it was shameful to me when I would realize that without my consent, almost without my knowledge, something had made me happy. And then I learned to think, when those times would come, 'Well, go ahead. If you're happy, then be happy.' No big happiness came to me yet, but little happinessess did come, and they came from ordinary pleasures in ordinary things; the baby, sunlight, breezes, animals and birds, daily work, rest when I was tired, food, strands of fog in the hollows early in the morning, butterflies, flowers. The flowers didn't have to be dahlias and roses either, but just the weeds blooming in the fields, the daisies and the yarrow. I began to trust the world again, not to give me what I wanted, for I saw that it could not be trusted to do that, but to give unforeseen goods and pleasures that I had not thought to want.”
― Hannah Coulter
― Hannah Coulter
“Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbor; act as if you did.”
― The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
― The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
“American culture never allows you to be satisfied,” he said. “When you want something, you go after it and get it, and as soon as you do, you want for something else, maybe a thousand more things. American culture will never have enough. It stands to reason that the church would follow suit.”
― Wild in the Hollow: On Chasing Desire and Finding the Broken Way Home
― Wild in the Hollow: On Chasing Desire and Finding the Broken Way Home
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