“When we lack faith, God is not surprised by it. When we lack faith, God can supply it. When we receive the faith He gives us, God is honored by it.”
Source: Faith Adventures: Stories of Learning with an Unseen God
“Our God isn’t shallow. Our God doesn’t call us to shallow, and He knows that sometimes with a phone call, a ran stoplight, a routine blood test, or a sonogram, we can be thrown into the deep end. He is there in the deep end with us.”
Source: Faith Adventures: Stories of Learning with an Unseen God
“If you want your physical, mental, emotional and eventually spiritual circumstances to transform completely, perhaps even beyond your wildest dreams, be willing to step out of your comfort zone onto the dance floor of your own mindfully chosen life.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“Understanding faith can be like trying to hold onto jello. Just when you think you've got a handful of the stuff, all you really have is the residue all over your sticky hands.”
Source: Faith Adventures: Stories of Learning with an Unseen God
“Childlike does not mean shallow.”
Source: Faith Adventures: Stories of Learning with an Unseen God
“As the church, we are in community together trying to fulfill this Great Commission that Jesus left us with. As we gently press into each other, we form one united thing, His church. As we work together, sharing the space God gives us to do His work, we all become shaped a little different. We all become a little more like Him.”
Source: Faith Adventures: Stories of Learning with an Unseen God
“Reporter Jacob Riis made it his mission to expose the horrors of poverty in New York. New to working with a camera, his flash actually set the walls of One apartment inhabited by five blind people on fire.”
Source: American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
“I predict that there will be many more like him in the future,” she sighed. “People of privilege speaking heroically on behalf of those with whom they have no intention of mixing.”
Source: In the Shadow of Time
“[H]e quoted eloquently from the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, and a section which had been stricken from his party's platform seventy-five years ago. He was not quite clear on what all this had to do with [the present situation], but it was noble and stirring and would bring in a lot of votes.”
Source: They'd Rather Be Right
“Each having thus delivered himself of words which meant nothing, both now seated themselves and proceeded to look mighty grave.”
Source: 54-40 or Fight