God is not just a chapter in the story of your life, he’s the author of your story, the one who makes sense of all the chapters of your life.
– Trevin Wax and Thomas West in The Gospel Way Catechism
Category: PASSION Quotes
Theology Is An Invitation
Theology isn’t an arduous task of arranging irrelevant details. It’s an invitation into greater knowledge of this Jesus who has saved us.
– Trevin Wax in The Thrill of Orthodoxy
An Act of Resistance
Sabbath rest…says that I don’t need to justify my own existence. It’s an act of resistance against the false god-king of this world who always demands that we do. It’s open rebellion against the systems of this world that demand we do in order to be.
– Adam Mabry in The Art of Rest
A Lurking Fear
You and I are still tempted by idolatry – and we still commit acts of idolatry. And that is because there still lurks in us a fear that something or someone else can meet our needs and satisfy our desires better than God can.
– Michael Horton in Recovering Our Sanity
What We Fear
Fear really is worship – we fear what we believe is ultimate, what we think has the last word over our lives.
– Michael Horton in Recovering Our Sanity
Classic Quote
I have a great need for Christ;
I have a great Christ for my need.
– Charles Spurgeon
Eden Longing
Prayer is our response to the echoes of Eden where we long to walk with God in the cool of the day.
– Philip Nation in Habits for Our Holiness
Classic Quote
When I pray, coincidences happen,
and when I don’t, they don’t.
– William Temple
Think Deeply
Working ceaselessly means you never have the chance to think deeply.
– Adam Mabry in The Art of Rest
The Busyness Hallucination
The worst hallucination busyness conjures is the conviction that I am God. All depends on me. How will the right thing happen at the right time if I’m not pushing and pulling and watching and worrying?
– Mark Buchanan in The Rest of God
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