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We can't be whole human beings if we cut ourselves off from the environment which God created and in which he is working. People of faith live in a far larger reality than people without faith. 'God so loved the world!' We often betray this reality. We huddle & retreat. We collect a few friends who think alike. We barricade ourselved from visions that expose our prejudices, from people that challenge our narcissism.

"Stay alert! I am God, the God of everything living. Is there anything I can't do? I will certainly bring this huge catastrophe on this (stiff-necked) people, but I will usher in a wonderful life of prosperity, I promise. Fields are going to be bought here again. Biblical hope acts on the conviction that God will complete the work that he has begun even when the appearances oppose it. It takes courage to act in hope"

"Our sense of who we are is very much determined by the place we are in and people we are with. When that changes abruptly, who are we? The accustomed ways we have of finding our worth and sensing our significance vanish. No one needs us. We wallow in self-pity. We are where we don"t want to be. But this very strangeness can open up new reality to us. In the midst of alienation, a sense of freedom can occur."

"You have ignored the best things that have ever been said to you-God's Word-and let the chatter and gossip of the crowd fill your ears. You have abandoned simple actions that people of faith have used to keep in touch with the truth of God. instead you have let the crowd distract you with frivolities and dehumanize you with propaganda."

Obey God and stand out! Don't let the crowd drag you into sloppy indolence.

Scripture's task is to tell people, at the risk of their displeasure, the mystery of God and the secrets of their own hearts--to speak out and make a clean breast. It shows us how badly we are living and how good life is. Enlightenment is not without pain. But the pain, accepted and endured, is not a maiming but a purging.

The Bible presents the word of God to shipwrecked people, to construct a way of salvation

Insightful Quotes
"God is not an idea to be studied. God is not a problem to be solved. What we find is Jeremiah praying: addressing God, listening to God as a living person, a thou to whom we speak, not an it that we talk about. Prayer is a decision to approach God as the personal center, our Lord & Savior. It issues from the conviction that the living God is immensely important to me, demands my exlusive attention.

Insightful Book Quotes:
"If we are going to be complete human beings, we are going to have to do it with God. We will have to be rescued from these despotic egos that reduce us to something less than human. We will have to expose the life of self-centeredness and proclaim the truth of God-centeredness."

"The most important thing in his life was God--not comfort, not applause, not security, but the living God."

Insightful Book Quotes:
"If we rae going to be complete human beings, we are going to have to do it with God. We will have to be rescued from these despotic egos that reduce us to something less than human. We will have to expose the life of self-centeredness and proclaim the truth of God-centeredness."

"The most important thing in his life was God--not comfort, not applause, not security, but the living God."

Insightful Quotes from the Book:
God the Potter

"The life of faith is very physical. Being a Christian is very much a matter of the flesh--of space and time and things. It means being thrown on the potter's wheel and shaped, our entire selves, into something useful and beautiful. And when we are not useful or beautiful, we are reshaped, Painful, but worth it."

"...God's shaping hand and the shape of my life."

Remarkable Book Quotes:
Only Skin-Deep Reform: The king's reform was accomplished. Superstitious religion was sent packing; immoral worship was banned. But getting rid of evil does not make people good. Everything had changed, but nothing had changed. The outward changes had been enormous; the inward changes were imperceptible. For religion is not a matter of places or words, but of life and love, mercy and obedience