Coming Clean: A Story of Faith
Seth Haines
Top 10 Best Quotes
“recovery will be tied to routine; risk of relapse tied to noise. God is hard enough to find in the quietness.”
“Somewhere, my thirst for distraction from the pains and poverties of life grew into a sweltering, parching thing. There are always feelings to be numbed, anxieties to tamp down, and panic attacks to avoid. The people of the Shire knew this, and so do I. I suppose I could have turned to things eternal—didn’t Jesus promise us rest?—but we seem to have a way of losing ourselves in our manmade salves—the bottle, the pill, the cheeseburger, self-inflicted starvation. I suppose we’re all drunk on something.”
“I am learning forgiveness is not often a single, shining event but a continual, repetitive act. A letting go, followed by another, and another.”
“Forgiveness, I am learning, cannot stand as a single, once-and-for-all event. Every morning brings a fresh coffeepot, and a fresh chance to get back to this messy and necessary work.”
“To ask for relief from God—this is human. To pray through the pain, to live in it instead of numbing yourself to it, to subjugate your will to the will of God, even in the face of potential suffering—this is what it means to be like Jesus. This is what it means to yield to the mystery.”
“I’ve become dependent upon something other than the God I claim.”
“I have been told that this kind of unraveling of nerves is natural, that It'll be around for a while. But if this is meant as consolation, it brings no cheer.”
“Forgiveness, both its extension and receipt, requires a lower, humble position before both God and man. Forgiveness, both its extension and receipt, is not the natural inclination of man, and I must fight for it.”
“the toasting of joys and the drowning of sorrows are closer kin than one might imagine.”
“recovery will be tied to routine; risk of relapse tied to noise. God is hard enough to find in the quietness. In the noise, it seems an impossibility. And the specter of this impossibility brings epiphany: the bottle is a negative pole and I am positive; I cannot control the attraction.”
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