Listening to Your Life — Frederick Buechner
The Protestant pastor particularly is to help people’s longing heart find rest in God. Whether with words or practices, the pastor’s job is to shape people’s inner life, sending them further inward to find the presence of God.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It’s as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.
Donald Miller • A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
You encountered a deep sense that life was calling out to you, seeking to include you.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
Frederick Buechner said, “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
Shane Claiborne • The Irresistible Revolution, Updated and Expanded: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn’t. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.