“The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.”
― Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
---Francis of Assisi

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
---Martin Luther

“We’re seeking — imperfectly at every turn, no doubt — an incarnational theology, a theology that brings radical good news of great joy for all the people, good news that God loves the world and didn’t send Jesus to condemn it but to save it, good news that God’s wrath is not merely punitive but restorative, good news that the fire of God’s holiness is not bent on eternal torment but always works to purify and refine, good news that where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more.”
― Brian D. McLaren

“A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situation