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Nadia Bolz-Weber on god

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhen what seems to be depression or compulsive eating or narcissism or despair or discouragement or resentment or isolation takes over, try picturing it as a vulnerable and desperate force seeking to defy God’s grace and mercy in your life.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe want to go to God for answers, but sometimes what we get is God’s presence.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIt has been my experience that what makes us the saints of God is not our ability to be saintly but rather God’s ability to work through sinners.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageGetting closer to God might mean getting told to love someone I don’t even like, or to give away even more of my money. It might mean letting some idea or dream that is dear to me get ripped away.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageGod’s grace is not defined as God being forgiving to us even though we sin. Grace is when God is a source of wholeness, which makes up for my failings. My failings hurt me and others and even the planet, and God’s grace to me is that my brokenness is not the final word ...

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI need a God who is bigger and more nimble and mysterious than what I could understand and contrive. Otherwise it can feel like I am worshipping nothing more than my own ability to understand the divine.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageNever once did Jesus scan the room for the best example of holy living and send that person out to tell others about him. He always sent stumblers and sinners. I find that comforting.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe movement in our relationship to God is always from God to us. Always. We can’t, through our piety or goodness, move closer to God. God is always coming near to us. Most especially in the Eucharist and in the stranger.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageGod simply keeps reaching down into the dirt of humanity and resurrecting us from the graves we dig for ourselves through our violence, our lies, our selfishness, our arrogance, and our addictions. And God keeps loving us back to life over and over.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageForgiveness is a big deal to Jesus, and like that guy in high school with a garage band, he talks about it, like, all the time.

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