*All you need is love. God is love.*The more we estranged from God, we drift from love. Without God we lose our source of love but not our need of love. The further we move from love, the more distant God becomes.
*If God is love, it is maddening when we are running from God and yet searching for love.
*I think sometimes searching for God is like looking for Gibson in Nashville. The signs are everywhere. You just have to know what you're looking for.
*God called us out of the life we have known, and calls us to a life we have never imagined. You are being called to a God whose voice your ears have never heard. You are having visions of life you could not possibly create alone. You are no longer satisfied with where you are, and now you are on a quest for where you do not know. You were created not to live in the past, but to create the future. Your soul craves to become, and you will never be satisfied with less.
*Jesus calls us to be different. If there was a God, his value would not be uniformity, but uniqueness. Imprinted on your soul is the fingerprint of God. There is something inside you that resists surrending your soul to legalism. The good news is all the time it wasn't you fighting against God; you were fighting for what God has created you to become. To come to God is to discover the uniqueness of your being.
*Sometimes we try to fill ourselves with everything we can grab, and yet there remains an inescapable emptiness within. Even when we've looked somewhere else, even when there's nowhere else to look, we still somehow neglect to consider the possibility that what our souls long for is God. We can't take enough to make enough to fill the hollowness within us. No matter that we try or do we can't avoid the void.
*Bitterness is the enemy of love because it makes you unforgiving and unwilling to give love unconditionally. It is the enemy of hope because you keep living in the past and become incapable of seeing a better future.
*The story of Jesus was not about who is right and who is wrong, what God's name is and who his prophet is, but what exactly God's motivation toward humanity is. If the message that God wants to get across to us is just about getting our beliefs right, then he didn't need to come himself. If God's entire intent was to clarify right from wrong, no personal visitation was necessary. If the ultimate end was simply to overwhelm us with the miracles so that we would finally believe, then even God taking on flesh and blood and walking among us was far from necessary.
There is only one reason for God to come himself, because in issue of love, you just can't have someone else stand in for you.
*In the worst of us there's still a desire that aspire to be the best of us. We are designed to trust, to gain trust, and to aspire to be trustworthy. All of this is a part how God has created us. Our search of truth, our need to trust, and our struggle to be trustworthy are all evidences of the human spirit. We will never escape these, because, whether we believe in God or not, we are still created in his image and likeness. Because God is true, our souls will never find rest until we are also.
