more quotes

Here are some more really good quotes from Phillip Yancey's Reaching the Invisible God

Quote 2 - "Creatures of flesh and blood, we lose patience with anything that does not manifest itself on our terms."

I am guilty of pulling away from God when I come to a place in my spiritual walk where I really don't understand Him, or I am frightened by what I have discovered about Him.

Quote 3 - "The modern world honors intelligence, good looks, confidence, and sophistication. God, apparently, does not. To accomplish his work God often relies on simple, uneducated people who don't know any better than to trust him, and through them wonders happen."

I LOVE THIS!!!!!! PERIOD!!!!

Quote 4 - "Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all"

When I was pregnant with Camden I had some difficulties early on in my pregnancy. For the first 14 weeks I had a 50/50 chance of losing my baby. I was attending CFNI at the time and taking a class and attending a life group where the teacher and the life group leaders believed that if you have enough faith you will be healed - no question. I wrestled with what exactly my beliefs were on faith. I knew that if they were correct and I lost my baby the fault would be fine - because I for sure had a load of doubt and fear. I learned alot from those 14 weeks. What I felt like was the hardest weeks of my life, I am now so grateful for. For a number of reasons, one being that I learned that faith is a journey. A journey of hope and journey of believing God's promises, a journey of knowing that his thoughts and his ways surpass any understanding that I will ever have on this earth, and a journey of knowing that God is everything to me. Even if God had taken Camden to Heaven before we met Him, what would there have been for us except still.......God.

Quote 5 - "Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me."

No comment here - I just thought it was a quote I wanted to mull over....