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“All who are familiar with satnav technology are well aware that there is usually an optimal route for reaching a particular destination. If we choose to ignore the directions and deviate from the ideal route, it doesn’t switch itself off in disgust but recalculates the journey to find the new route, starting from our current location. In the same way, God doesn’t write us off or force us out of the driving seat when, ignoring him, we steer our own way through life. He takes us on from where we are.”
― Chris Band, On My Knees: Rebuilding our confidence in prayer

“An unmoving watch may have its place in a timeless universe, but it is all but useless in a world where the seconds tick by. In the same way, we might rightly question what comfort there would be in journeying through life with a God who is continually unable or unwilling to respond, in real time, to the desires expressed in our prayers. God in his power could have chosen to relate to us in such a way, but his love has embraced a different path.”
― Chris Band, On My Knees: Rebuilding our confidence in prayer

“But, as Polkinghorne states: God’s perfection is not the static holding of the topmost metaphysical peak, but it lies in the total love of his unfailing action. It is the perfection that belongs to life and not to lifelessness.4”
― Chris Band, On My Knees: Rebuilding our confidence in prayer

“Mental punishments are not helpful because they deal with sin in a self-centered way instead of a Christ-centered way.”
― Heath Lambert, Finally Free: Fighting for Purity with the Power of Grace