May all of your expectations be frustrated,
May all of your plans be thwarted,
May all of your desires be withered into nothingness,
That you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child
And can sing and dance in the love of God,
Who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Quotes
maturity
“To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.”
quotes
Here are some wonderful quotes from a book I started reading called Ruthless Trust by Brennan Manning. This first quote was a doozy. I was stuck on page 6 for three days because I couldn’t stop thinking about how profound and truthful this statement was:
- “Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father’s active goodness and unrestricted love.”
This next one just shocked me as I read it for the first time today, because if someone were to ask me what causes these panic attacks or what triggers this deep-rooted fear in me, I could sum it up with this one statement:
- “The awareness that the eternal, transcendent God of Jesus Christ is our absolute future gives us the shakes. One day out of the blue comes a thought of our inevitable death, and the thought is so troubling that we want to live the rest of our lives in a shoe.”
This one is just so true:
- “One of the surest ways to avoid being happy is to insist on being happy at all costs. The religion of cheerfulness, as Father Brown reminds us, is a cruel religion, and maybe the best way not to go mad is not to mind too much if you do go mad.”
details
“I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.”