Jen Pollock Michel Quotes

We all have a tendency to use prayer to dictate to God.
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Believing in the sovereignty of God injects courage in the act of desire.
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His childhood passed in quiet anxiety.
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Sticks and stones may break your bones, and words – can cut your insides.
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Holy desire can be learned. All prayer is part work and part rest.
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Kingdom is a signpost to the holy.
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Our small group is committed to getting the biblical text under our skin.
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After her initial conversion as a teenager, the author writes, "I was sent back into a world that no longer looked familiar to me. I had to relearn how to do everything.
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I didn't know how faith felt when it grew incrementally.
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God is the I AM that I AM not the I AM that we wish.
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Struggle is a prerequisite to surrender.
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According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.
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Blessing and obedience do comfortably and mysteriously coexist.
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The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.
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The Bible provocatively evokes desire.
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How do you fill the space between, "God says it," and, "I believe it,"?
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Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Grace has as much to say about endings as it does about beginnings.
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We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing.
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Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us.
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The phrases of the Lord's Prayer, "are words we pray, not always because we believe them, but because we WANT to believe them.
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Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary.
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New freedoms surface old habits. I haven't left sin behind, only discovered a new medium for my treachery. My real trouble as a writer isn't trying to mean the words that I write. It's living into the words that I mean. Nonfiction writing can feel like the high art of hypocrisy.
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Dinner is a cacophonous exercise of holy sanctification.
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