Yesterday I highlighted some quotes from this book. You know, the stuff I underlines or bracketed if the quote was too long to underline. Let me just emphasize again that this book is incredibly timely for me and I think a beneficial read for just about anyone. By no means is it an all encompassing definition of God and that certainly was never the author's intent. The first half of the book addresses distorted and destructive images of God we have either been given or formed for ourselves. The second half of the book brings attention to six constructive images of God as brought to light by the one that knows him better than any of our feeble attempts- Jesus Christ.
My underlines:
- Give us this day our daily bread...even if it comes at midnight.
- The question is never one of whether or not God will provide, but rather, will you ask him to?
- We have been raised in a culture that has approached prayer with a sense of reverence and reservation that can sometimes border on fear and timidity. Prayers smothered in the repetitive reluctance of such phrases as "if it be your will," "if it pleases you," "if you can." Prayers that prefer, in place of knocking, to leave a polite note slid under the door at the gates of heaven.
- These women prayed like lions. These women actually believed God[s promises].
- God is both just and generous.
- God cannot garden at a distance.
- Before we can begin to understand what we are to do with our lives, we must know who the Father is and who is his son.
- Before you go you stay.
- Our job could not be any simpler: All we have to do is stay.
- Connectedness starves our selfishness.
- We have a hard time believing that we are loved long before we even lift a finger.
- Before your language [how you pray] can ever be beautiful, it has to be personal. Before any sense of intricacy, must come intimacy. If your prayer starts with Abba [daddy, uncomfortably personal for our almighty God], it changes every word that follows.
- God is not fair.
- In God's economy, all are rewarded by the disproportionate quotient of grace.
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