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Your God Is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can’t Control Quotes
But grace and effort are not opposites. Grace and earning are opposites.
— Mark Buchanan, Your God Is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can’t Control
Prayer makes no sense apart from waiting.
— Mark Buchanan, Your God Is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can’t Control
We honestly think that we ourselves and those around us should be proficient with spiritual power, moving and acting with agility and endurance, wisdom and purity, able to conquer long-established habits of sloth and rebelliousness, simply on the basis of our desire and effort and sincerity…We have to train for the spiritual life.
— Mark Buchanan, Your God Is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can’t Control
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.
— Mark Buchanan, Your God Is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can’t Control
God’s definition of going well is unique, distinct, almost eccentric. His definition of wellness is not about health, finances, or job security. It’s not about unfailing protection from the vagaries and dangers of a broken world. It’s not about life being fair. It’s about acceptance.
— Mark Buchanan, Your God Is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can’t Control
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.
— Mark Buchanan, Your God Is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can’t Control
One of the most convicting things I have recently come to realize about Jesus is that He was never, not once, in a hurry.
— Mark Buchanan, Your God Is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can’t Control
For the place God calls us into isn’t doubt free—how can any place where we walk by faith and not by sight be that? No, the holy wild is where we have driving and haunting doubts, God-hungry doubts that pull us to our knees, force us to the Word, make us wrestle all night and not let go until He blesses us. The holy wild throngs with true skeptics.
— Mark Buchanan, Your God Is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can’t Control
The Pharisees had an ethic of avoidance, and Jesus had an ethic of involvement.
— Mark Buchanan, Your God Is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can’t Control
Silence is the room we create for the searching of God, where we hear His voice and follow.
— Mark Buchanan, Your God Is Too Safe: Rediscovering the Wonder of a God You Can’t Control