Skye Jethani Quotes

The "trials of ordinary existence" are the divine curricula for spiritual maturity.

Learning to see the world as it truly is - saturated with the presence and love of God - should be the essence of Christian discipleship, or what many call spiritual formation.

Modern people may express outrage at the horrors of the African slave trade or the Holocaust, but in truth the commodification of human beings that made those atrocities possible is more prevalent today than ever before.

In a consumer culture "incarnating Christ" no longer carries an expectation of Christians loving God and their neighbors; but rather the perpetual consumption of Christian merchandise.

Disciplines teach us to overcome the temptation to gratify our immediate desires so that we may attain a higher one.

What might we learn about God and ourselves if our Bible study group gathered outside to stare at the stars in silence?

Let's break free from artificial relationships with unfeeling, uncaring, unloving institutions that cannot contain the unpredictable wind of God's Spirit, and focus instead on building soulish connections with real people filled with the breath of God.

Finding true silence requires more than quieting our surroundings. It also means quieting our souls. This is the real dilemma of living in a wordy world.

It is recognizing God's eternality that liberates our minds from their consumer inclination to reduce him to a commodity.

Maybe God is waiting for us to be silent long enough so he may begin painting a new picture in our imaginations, to begin transforming our image of a manageable deity into one that can truly inspire.

We are more than our base desires, and our lives are not sustained by gratifying them.

The influence of consumerism has led us to confuse institutions for people, means for the mission, and programs for the Spirit's power.

Job learned the wisdom of silence before God, but it appears many Christians have abandoned this value in our wordy world.

Ironically, it is often our zeal to protect our faith that leads to its loss.

To believe that employing consumer methods in the church will produce spiritually mature Christians is delusional thinking akin to expecting a dog to hatch from a chicken's egg.