A Curious Faith: The Questions God Asks, We Ask, and We Wish Someone Would Ask Us
Lore Ferguson Wilbert
Top 10 Best Quotes
“When we pretend to have all the answers, we're not telling the truth.”
“When I'm asking the Lord, 'How long can this continue?' I'm asking him to relent. I'm asking him to make it stop. I'm asking him to get back in a place where I can see him moving, shaking, crumbling, dismantling, arising, healing, coming. I'm asking him to make it stop. ...I'm asking him to be mighty, to be faithful, to be kind, to be what I know his character to be.”
“We're afraid he has plans for others, but not for us. That he has hopes for others, but not for us. That he has a future for others, but not for us. That he's with us but that he's turned his back on us.”
“We all wanted to be used by God, but none of us wanted to fold up the chairs afterward.”
“To despair is not to turn your back on God - it is to believe that God has turned his back on you.”
“The most important thing about a person is what God thinks when he thinks about them.”
“Our great and cosmic and inclusive sin is that we chose our own way over our Father's way.”
“Only when we are free from condemnation is our endeavor to refrain from sinning rooted in the freedom Christ offers.”
“My honesty before him was all he wanted all along. He didn't want my blind trust or my white-knuckled attempts to clean myself up for him. He wanted me, all of me, all my history, all my brokenness, all my fears and anxieties and angers. He just wanted me to be completely honest about where I was going with this burden of brokenness.”
“Knowing we are valuable to God means we will care for wounds as we discover them. It means we will submit to the whole healing process, even the painful parts that feel like antiseptic or physical therapy. It means we will not pretend hard things don't hurt or emotions aren't real or death doesn't sting. It means we will weep when we're sad, laugh when we feel joy, have silence when we don't have words, and shout when it's right. It means we will acknowledge our own grief and attend to it. It means each generation becomes a little more healed and whole as we go, until the whole world is reconciled to Christ in wholeness.”
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healing, forgiveness, pretense, truth, ministry, grief, god-s-character, god, hope, self-absorption, feedom, surrender, god-s-love, suffering, honesty, despair, sin, identity
