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.”
