The edge of life can be marked in black faster than one would suppose. Why not ring all the bells?
“It is the most counterintuitive aspect of Christianity, that we are declared right with God not once we begin to get our act together but once we collapse into honest acknowledgment that we never will.”
― Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
― Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
“The cumulative testimony of the four Gospels is that when Jesus Christ sees the fallenness of the world all about him, his deepest impulse, his most natural instinct, is to move toward that sin and suffering, not away from it.”
― Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
― Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
“This is the sin of the Israelites, of all humankind really, this slowness to remember all that He has done as we stare intently at what He hasn't done yet, what He might not do.”
― Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful
― Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful
“As a devoted reader, I lovingly give countless hours to finding the right books for me. I don’t think those hours are wasted; part of the fun of reading is planning the reading. But I’ve learned that sometimes, despite my best efforts, a book unexpectedly finds me and not the other way around. And when it does, it’s okay to reshuffle my To Be Read list and go with it.”
― I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
― I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
“This book does not have a happy ending. The happy part is there is no ending, because I'll always find a way to keep going.”
― Know My Name
― Know My Name
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