A few of my favorite quotes from Francis Chan's Crazy Love.
Having faith often mean doing what others see as crazy. Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
Do you give to those who cannot repay you? To those who would do you harm, if they could? To those who have already done you harm? This is Christ's love. He gave us something for which we can never repay Him, and then He asks us to keep giving like He gives.
The love for equals is a human thing- of friend for friend, brother for brother. It is to love what is loving and lovely. The love for the less fortunate is a beautiful thing- the love for those who suffer, for those who are poor, the sick, the failures, the unlovely. This is compassion, and it touches the heart of the world. The love for the more fortuante is a rare thing- to love those who succeed where we fail, to rejoice without envy with those who rejoice, the love of the poor for the rich, of the black man for the white man. The world is always bewildered by its saints. And then there is the love for the enemy- love for one who does not love you but mocks, threatens, and inflicts pain. The tortured's love for the torturer. This is God's love. It conquers the world.
People who are obsessed with Jesus do not consider service a burden. Obsessed people take joy in loving God by loving His people.
God desires true intimacy with each of us, and that comes only when we trust Him enough to be fully tranparent and vulnerable.
3 comments:
Thank you for sharing this! Those are indeed inspiring. Do you have this book, and if so, could I perhaps borrow it from you?
mmm what God reminders
ha sorry that was two thoughts together
1) what good reminders
2) God is so good
Post a Comment