Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith

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Quotes by Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith

"Believing in the sovereignty of God injects courage in the act of desire."

Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith

"According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue."

Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith

"New freedoms surface old habits. I haven't left sin behind, only discovered a new medium for my treachery. My real trouble as a writer isn't trying to mean the words that I write. It's living into the words that I mean. Nonfiction writing can feel like the high art of hypocrisy."

Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith

"Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary."

Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith

"The phrases of the Lord's Prayer, "are words we pray, not always because we believe them, but because we WANT to believe them."

Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith

"Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us."

Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith

"We prefer the not wanting and not having to the losing."

Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith

"Sticks and stones may break your bones, and words – can cut your insides."

Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith

"Grace has as much to say about endings as it does about beginnings."

Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith

"Only he who cries out for the persecuted Jews can sing Gregorian chants. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer"

Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith

"How do you fill the space between, "God says it," and, "I believe it,"?"

Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith

"The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss."

Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith

"Blessing and obedience do comfortably and mysteriously coexist."

Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith

"Holy desire can be learned. All prayer is part work and part rest."

Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith

"Our small group is committed to getting the biblical text under our skin."

Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith

"After her initial conversion as a teenager, the author writes, "I was sent back into a world that no longer looked familiar to me. I had to relearn how to do everything."

Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith

"I didn't know how faith felt when it grew incrementally."

Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith

"God is the I AM that I AM not the I AM that we wish."

Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith

"We all have a tendency to use prayer to dictate to God."

Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition & the Life of Faith