more on god talk
I'm reading Barbara Brown Taylor's Leaving Church. In it she says,
"...on the subject of divine guidance I side with Susan B. Anthony. 'I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do,' she once said, 'because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.' Having been somewhat of an expert on the sanctification of my own desires I try not to pin them on God anymore."
AMEN!
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"...on the subject of divine guidance I side with Susan B. Anthony. 'I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do,' she once said, 'because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.' Having been somewhat of an expert on the sanctification of my own desires I try not to pin them on God anymore."
AMEN!
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posted by jch at
9:36 AM
2 Comments:
One of the best books I've read this year. Refreshing.
Yep, I'm reading it too. This one has kept me awake on the train.
"If it is true that God exceeds all our efforts to contain God, then is it too big a stretch to declare that 'dumbfoundedness' is what all Christians have most in common? Or that coming together to confess all that we do not know is at least as sacred an activity as declaring what we think we do know?" (Chap. 9)
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