10 Quotes about God from Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith (by Jen Pollock Michel)

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Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith quotes about god

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


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


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


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


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


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