Morewgood quotes

The following quotes are from a book called Blue Like Jazz ritten by Donald Miller. It is bassically written from a seekers' perspective.

"....my Sunday School classes did much to help us memorize commandments and little to teach us who God was and how to relate to Him, or perhaps it was because they did and I was not listening."(p.4)

I think this is a big problem in America. We love to teach things about God, spoonfeeding people, but we don't want to take the time to truly disciple people and teach them to think for themselves and get into the Word themselves.

"I believe that the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but to have us wasting time........If he can sink a man's mind into habit he can prevent his heart from engaging God." (p.13)

"The genius of the American system is not freedom;5the genius of the Americanystem is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watcing everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse.." (p.18)

One more.

".....The problem is not a certain type of legilation or even a certain politician; the problem is the same that it has always been."

"I am the problem." (20).


Just a few thigs to think about.