But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The ancients were afraid that if they went to the end of the earth they would fall off and be consumed by dragons. But once we understand that Christianity is true to what is there, true to the ultimate environment - the infinite, personal God who is really there - then our minds are freed. We can pursue any question and can be sure that we will not fall off the end of the earth. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder can’t be packaged, and it can’t be worked up. It requires some sense of being there and some sense of engagement. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Believe what you believe and it will be, believe what others believe and they will consume you! Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me a while to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven later. It is about entering a relationship in the present that begins to change everything now. Spirituality is about this process: the opening of the heart to the God who is already here. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
God is the most beautiful, and beauty is the expression of God. If you can't appreciate beauty in the world how can you understand God? Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
