"I take great comfort in the possibility that Jesus would like me were we to meet face-to-face. To be sure, there were people Jesus did not take a liking to, but those people were arrogant, questioned His identity as God, and boosted their egos and senses of power by burdening people with excess religious baggage. But for most people, especially people in the margins, there was in Christ a great deal of empathy. He seemed to want people to be together, to live together and love one another and link arms."

"My gut tells me the key to life is relational, not propositional."

"I know it isn't a very Marlboro-man way to live your life, but what if the Marlboro-man way of life really sucks and makes you lonely all the time, and what if the way of Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit, not to mention the disciples, is right; by that I mean what if the way the Trinity operates explains the way humans are wired, and that we will be fulfilled when we are finally with God and, in His compainionship, we know who we are? What if when we are with God, we feel that we have glory, we feel His love for us and know, in a way infinitely more satisifying than a parent's love or a lover's love, that we matter?"


-from "Searching for God Knows What" by Donald Miller