Quotes from
6 quotes · The Message (John 1:14), The Contemplative Pastor (1989), Run with the Horses (1983), A Long Obedience in the Same Direction (2000)
There is a difference between praying to an unknown God whom we hope to discover in our praying, and praying to a known God, revealed through Israel and in Jesus Christ… In the first we indulge our appetite for religious fulfillment; in the second we practice obedient faith. The first is a lot more fun; the second is a lot more important.
The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood.
The word ‘busy’ is the symptom not of commitment but of betrayal. It is not devotion but defection.
The puzzle is why so many people live so badly. Not so wickedly, but so inanely. Not so cruelly, but so stupidly. There is little to admire and less to imitate in the people who are prominent in our culture. We have celebrities but not saints.
The Bible is not so much God telling us some thing — some idea, some fact, some rule — as God speaking life into us. Are we listening? Are we answering? Bible reading is prayed reading.
The Author of the book is writing us into his book, we aren't writing him into ours. We find ourselves in the book as followers of Jesus.