Mark Buchanan Quotes
Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.
God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.
Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.
Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.
This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.
The Pharisees had an ethic of avoidance, and Jesus had an ethic of involvement.
Laughter—just good bone-shaking, belly-jiggling, light-in-the-head laughter, is a sure sign of health. The only one who hates it is Satan and all his wannabes.
Ironic that those most holy are least likely to see themselves that way.
Love can’t cover over the sins we cover up…If you want God and others to cover over your sin, stop covering it up.
Silence is the room we create for the searching of God, where we hear His voice and follow.
But grace and effort are not opposites. Grace and earning are opposites.
One of the most convicting things I have recently come to realize about Jesus is that He was never, not once, in a hurry.
Prayer makes no sense apart from waiting.
Author wonders whether God's proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to world-weary man as much as humbling him.