Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us To Want: Longing, Ambition & The Life Of Faith Quotes
Kingdom is a signpost to the holy.
We all have a tendency to use prayer to dictate to God.
Believing in the sovereignty of God injects courage in the act of desire.
His childhood passed in quiet anxiety.
Sticks and stones may break your bones, and words – can cut your insides.
According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.
Struggle is a prerequisite to surrender.
God is the I AM that I AM not the I AM that we wish.
I didn't know how faith felt when it grew incrementally.
After her initial conversion as a teenager, the author writes, "I was sent back into a world that no longer looked familiar to me. I had to relearn how to do everything.
Our small group is committed to getting the biblical text under our skin.
Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary.
Holy desire can be learned. All prayer is part work and part rest.
Blessing and obedience do comfortably and mysteriously coexist.
The Bible provocatively evokes desire.
The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.
How do you fill the space between, "God says it, " and, "I believe it, "?
Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Grace has as much to say about endings as it does about beginnings.
We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.
Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.
The phrases of the Lord's Prayer, "are words we pray, not always because we believe them, but because we WANT to believe them.