Skye Jethani Quotes

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.

Approaching Christianity as a brand explains why the majority of people who identify themselves as Christians live no differently than other Americans yet spend enormous amounts of money on Christian products.

Have we clothed our faith with the forms of our American culture to the point that our Christianity has morphed into something entirely different - a folk religion altogether consumerist in spirit and content?

If we are to effectively make disciples of Jesus Christ and teach them to obey everything he commanded, we cannot neglect the imagination.

Our imaginations can throw off the shackles of consumerism if we start to feel the infinite once again.

In a culture that insists on making God small, we can counteract the trend by focusing our imaginations on what is big.

Jesus isn't interested in negotiating. He knows that death, the surrendering of our immediate desires, is how we can take hold of an even greater joy.

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.

Our longing to pass through the gates of eternity will not be satisfied by any external experience, but by the dwelling of God within.

History has shown syncretism to the culture is a chronic ailment of the church.

The spiritual life must find its origin in silence.