Skye Jethani Quotes

#1. Friendships were tricky things, especially friendships as old as theirs was. Nudity was nothing more than a collection of hard-earned scars and marks. Love was a given, uncomplicated by sex or vows, but honesty was always waiting there, ready to capsize the steady boat.

Emma Straub

#2. If imitation is the highest form of flattery, than Christians have become pop culture's most devoted admirers.

Skye Jethani

#3. But surrender is only possible if we have total assurance that we are safe. We must be convinced that if we let go we will be caught. This assurance only comes when we trust that our heavenly Father desires to be with us and will not let us fall.

Skye Jethani

#4. I do better with routines and predictability. I don't react well when there's a sudden change in the schedule.

Gretchen Rubin

#5. But the only thing of value the church has to offer is the gospel. I believe that one result of the emerging Experience Economy will be a longing for authenticity. To the extent that the church stages worldly experiences, it will lose its effectiveness.

Skye Jethani

#6. I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.

Andrew Scott

#7. Jesus says God isn't like a gumball machine; he's more like the wind: unpredictable, uncontrollable, no more containable than wind in a bottle.

Skye Jethani

#8. In reality, to quote G. K. Chesterton, "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."2 Or perhaps it might be more accurately said of our time that Christianity has not been presented and therefore has been left untried.

Skye Jethani

#9. Your best changes from moment to moment, sick or well, tired or rested. Remember that you are an imperfect human being. There is no value to judging yourself for

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#10. As much as we might want to control God, history has proven that he is notoriously uncooperative.

Skye Jethani

#11. I had never yet done such a thing in life, but now I felt a desire to mock.
("In The Court Of The Dragon")

Robert W. Chambers

#12. The reason why we look so crazy as Christians is because we see a world that the rest don't see. We see a God-bathed world in which we are perfectly safe. So safe, so set free from fear that we can even love our enemies without thought of the consequences.

Skye Jethani

#13. Beauty is a full-time job.

Soman Chainani

#14. Silence is the beginning of all worship.

Skye Jethani

#15. The reason, simply put, is that seeking control is not the solution to the human condition but is part of the problem.

Skye Jethani

#16. This philosophy of spiritual formation through the consumption of external experiences creates worship junkies - Christians who leap from one mountaintop to another, one spiritual high to another, in search of a glory that does not fade.

Skye Jethani

#17. Jesus is not laying out another law for us to obey. He's illustrating for us what a truly rehabilitated heart looks like.

Skye Jethani

#18. We cannot weaken or destroy political parties in ther United States without weakening or destroying the rule of the people ... Those who support party organization and submit to party discipline are supporting the only course yet discovered for orderly government by the people.

Calvin Coolidge

#19. We ascribe value to him (the literal meaning of the word "worship") based not on who he is, but on what he can do for us.

Skye Jethani

#20. I must to the barber's, mounsieur; for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face; and I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me I must scratch.

William Shakespeare

#21. Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.

Paul Klee

#22. Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market.

Noam Chomsky

#23. How can a prisoner plot his escape if he doesn't believe a world exists outside the prison walls?

Skye Jethani

#24. Beaujolais is the only white wine that happens to be red.

Karen MacNeil

#25. Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

Chuck Close

#26. Information is the new atom or electron, the fundamental building block of the universe ... We now see the world as entirely made of information: it's bits all the way down.

Bryan Appleyard

#27. Christian researcher George Barna concludes, "American Christianity has largely failed since the middle of the twentieth century because Jesus' modern-day disciples do not act like Jesus.

Skye Jethani