rose huff

Chosen and beloved! Sharing quotes from folks that challenge and encourage me on my journey in hopes of challenging and encouraging others!

[DallasAWillard @DallasAWillard]

I will simply state my assumptions about the Bible: On its human side, I assume that it was produced and preserved by competent human beings who were at least as intelligent and devout as we are today. I assume that they were quite capable of accurately interpreting their own experience and of objectively presenting what they heard and experienced in the language of their historical community, which we today can understand with due diligence.

On the divine side, I assume that God has been willing and competent to arrange for the Bible, including its record of Jesus, to emerge and be preserved in ways that will secure his purposes for it among human beings worldwide. Those who actually believe in God will be untroubled by this. I assume that he did not and would not leave his message to humankind in a form that can only be understood by a handful of late-twentieth-century professional scholars, who cannot even agree among themselves on the theories that they assume to determine what the message is.

The Bible is, after all, God’s gift to the world through his Church, not to the scholars. It comes through the life of his people and nourishes that life. Its purpose is practical, not academic. An intelligent, careful, intensive but straightforward reading—that is, one not governed by obscure and faddish theories or by a mindless orthodoxy—is what it requires to direct us into life in God’s kingdom. Any other approach to the Bible, I believe, conflicts with the picture of the God that, all agree, emerges from Jesus and his tradition. To what extent this belief of mine is or is not harmfully circular, I leave the philosophically minded reader to ponder.

Willard, Dallas. The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God (pp. 4-5).

[rose huff @55roseh]

@trevor040451 Thank you Trevor — I’m excited to have been invited back to offer COG to a group of women at a retreat center this month!
I will always be grateful to have the privilege of sharing this life changing teaching with others!💝 Warm regards to you and Debbie!

[Trevor Hudson @trevor040451]

Just posted my reflection on a personal journey that was sparked by an unusual and surprising question asked by Dallas Willard. Here is the link:

https://t.co/ZJAeUuJqef

[GERCINO AZEVEDO🐶⌚❤🇧🇷😁🤣🌷📖✝ @GercinoGer]

@nofearinlove77 Amen Jesus.

[MrCasey @MrCasey62]

“If you’ve come to church to find holy people, you’ve made a mistake. If you came to find God, you’ve chosen correctly.”

~ St. John Chrysostom

[Henri Nouwen (1932–1996) @nofearinlove77]

“Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.”

— Lifesigns

[Henri Nouwen (1932–1996) @nofearinlove77]

“You don’t have to change, prove anything, or become someone else to be loved; you are loved as you are.”

— Life of the Beloved

[Henri Nouwen (1932–1996) @nofearinlove77]

“God’s love does not depend on what you do or say; you are loved because you are His child—so you can come to Him just as you are.”

— Life of the Beloved

[Jonathan R. Bailey @jonathanrbailey]

The question is not whether growth is happening. It’s whether I can trust the slow, almost hidden pace of God’s work in me.

On Transformation’s Pace, Wisdom from Frederick Buechner, and Staying in the Waiting

https://t.co/d0x84fs9Ff

[PARSIFEL @Parsifel1]

"I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay."
-J.R.R. Tolkien

[Henri Nouwen (1932–1996) @nofearinlove77]

“Every act of mercy, every word of peace, and every gesture of love is a small resurrection—bringing life where there is death, hope where there is despair, and healing where there is brokenness.”

— Bread for the Journey

[Henri Nouwen (1932–1996) @nofearinlove77]

"When we compare ourselves with others, we always lose, because we either feel superior or inferior, and both are forms of being lost."

— The Inner Voice of Love

[Darwin to Jesus @darwintojesus]

It never works.

[Henri Nouwen (1932–1996) @nofearinlove77]

“Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain.”

— Bread for the Journey

[Henri Nouwen (1932–1996) @nofearinlove77]

“Each morning is God’s gentle invitation to open your heart again to His love.”

— Here and Now

[Darwin to Jesus @darwintojesus]

This is 100% true.

[rose huff @55roseh]

@jonathanrbailey Thank you for the reminder!!💝

[DallasAWillard @DallasAWillard]

The human condition. #DallasWillard #RenovationOfTheHeart #discipleship #knowledge #christrianbooks