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His childhood passed in quiet anxiety.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
We all have a tendency to use prayer to dictate to God.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
Sticks and stones may break your bones, and words – can cut your insides.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
Struggle is a prerequisite to surrender.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
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.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
New freedoms surface old habits. I haven’t left sin behind, only discovered a new medium for my treachery. My real trouble as a writer isn’t trying to mean the words that I write. It’s living into the words that I mean. Nonfiction writing can feel like the high art of hypocrisy.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
Our small group is committed to getting the biblical text under our skin.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
Believing in the sovereignty of God injects courage in the act of desire.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
The phrases of the Lord’s Prayer, “are words we pray, not always because we believe them, but because we WANT to believe them.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
Grace has as much to say about endings as it does about beginnings.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
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.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
How do you fill the space between, “God says it, ” and, “I believe it, “?
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
I didn’t know how faith felt when it grew incrementally.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
Blessing and obedience do comfortably and mysteriously coexist.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
Holy desire can be learned. All prayer is part work and part rest.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
The Bible provocatively evokes desire.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
Kingdom is a signpost to the holy.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
God is the I AM that I AM not the I AM that we wish.
— Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith
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