Quotes from Mark Buchanan

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.

Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.

Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

One of the most convicting things I have recently come to realize about Jesus is that He was never, not once, in a hurry.

Spiritual discipline: any activity I do by direct effort that will help me do what I cannot now do by direct effort.

Ironic that those most holy are least likely to see themselves that way.

Because we are what we love, our identity and our dignity depend on what we love and the depth and passion with which we love.

And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of—to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there's nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.