Home > Work > Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart

Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart QUOTES

Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart QUOTES

1 " Others have passed faith onto us and we borrow those customs and traditions that help form us. But, sometimes, we also need to adopt new practices that helps us on the journey. "

― , Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart

2 " Jesus stressed that God does not do drone strikes on people just because they ignore or offend him. "

― , Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart

3 " My belief is in question because it leads to a conclusion that God is worse than me. "

― , Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart

4 " We assume that God is doing something he does not want to do. If we assume that we are originally bad, and he cannot hardly stand to look at us, then it is almost like something or someone must talk him into loving us. "

― , Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart

5 " God loves us because of who he is not because of anything we do. He is obligated by his nature alone to love us. "

― , Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart

6 " When parents orchestrate their children's circumstances, they produce immature adults. "

― , Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart

7 " Religion seems to satisfy a basic longing that all of us have. To me, religion had always been about finding a road to God, reestablishing a relationship. "

― , Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart

8 " Trying harder often made it worse. This can also be true of church an.d religion "

― , Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart

9 " We were created from relationship for relationship, invited to experience this other-centered, self-giving love not only with God but also with each other. "

― , Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart

10 " As I have freed myself from the appraisal of others, this has freed me from needing to judge others and allowed me to be more uncertain, to see things from other points of view. "

― , Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart

11 " If I am to be authentic, I can only say what I understand to be true and hope we can journey together toward the truth. "

― , Apparent Faith: What Fatherhood Taught Me About the Father's Heart