Blue Like Jazz

Just some of my favourite quotes.

"Soon I will see the lines on His face." (p1)

"It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances. It we get caught, we will be punished. But that doesn't make us good people; it only makes us subdued." (p18)

"The thing I loved about Nadine was that I never felt like she was selling anything. She would talk about God as if she knew Him, as if she had talked to Him on the phone that day. She was never ashamed." (p46)

"Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is like making a decision." (p104)

"What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do." (p110)

"Dying for someone is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing." (p111)

"Many of our own attempts to understand the Christian faith have only cheapened it." (p202)

"I think we have two choices in the face of such big beauty; terror or awe. And this is precisely why we attempt to chart God, beacuse we want to be able to predict Him, to dissect Him, to carry Him around in our dog and pony show. We are too proud to feel awe and too fearful to feel terror. We reduce Him to math so we don't have to fear Him, and yet the Bible tells us fear is the appropriate response that is the beginning of wisdom." (p204)

"The key to everything rests in the ability to receive love." (p226)