When you get your,'Who am I?', question right, all of your,'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves
Interpretation
Understanding your identity helps clarify your purpose in life.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-awareness in guiding our decisions and actions. When we have a clear understanding of who we are and our values, the choices we need to make about our lives often become more apparent and manageable.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth.
My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite.
The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.
I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating.
Much of the Christian religion has largely become “holding on” instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we must learn the letting go (of everything else).
We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.
I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world.
The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.
Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There are two ways to be your own Savior and Lord. One is by breaking all the moral laws and setting your own course, and one is by keeping all the moral laws and being very, very good.
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.
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