The Insanity of God by Nik Ripken

Excerpts:“The core problem isn’t the fact that we’re lukewarm, halfhearted, or stagnant Christians. The crux of it all is why we are this way, and it’s because we have an inaccurate view of God.”“God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves…

Excerpts:“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”“The more you know and the better you understand, the more severely will you be judged, unless your life is also the more holy.”“What good is it to argue about the Trinity…

Excerpts:“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”“To know God is at once the easiest and the most difficult thing in the world.”“God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.”

Excerpts:“When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die.”“Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again.”“Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.”

Excerpts:“Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn’t mean I orchestrate the tragedies.”“Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person’s throat.”“The real underlying flaw in your life is that you don’t think that I am good.”

Excerpts:“The Spirit will lead you to the way of the cross, and that is definitely not a safe or pretty or comfortable place to be.”“The truth is that the Spirit of the living God is guaranteed to ask you to go somewhere or do something you wouldn’t normally want or choose to do.”“We are most…