62 quotes
Some people skip through life; some people are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder whether we are moving through time or time is moving through us.
Blue Like Jazz (2003)
It does not escape me that I am blessed to be included in this tale of a billion human conflicts and singular resolution.
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000)
Satan, who I believe exists as much as I believe Jesus exists, wants us to believe meaningless things for meaningless reasons.
Blue Like Jazz (2003)
What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.
Blue Like Jazz (2003)
Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.
Blue Like Jazz (2003)
It is the occupation of a Christian to glorify God.
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000)
There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000)
Six billion people live in this world, and I can only muster thoughts for one. Me.
Blue Like Jazz (2003)
Outside of God's perspective, even romance loses its significance. Not in riches or in romance do we find fulfillment, but in God.
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000)
All great characters in stories are the ones who give their lives to something bigger than themselves. And in all of the stories I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus.
Blue Like Jazz (2003)
We have come one hundred miles and both the tortoise and the hare have passed us laughing.
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000)
"You know, Don, marriage is worth the trade. You lose all your freedom but you get this friend. This incredible friend."
Blue Like Jazz (2003)
Worship is not just something we feel, it is something we sweat.
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000)
In America, the first generation out of slavery invented jazz music. It is a free-form expression. It comes from the soul and it is true.
Blue Like Jazz (2003)
The problem with Christian culture is we think of love as a commodity. We use it like money.
Blue Like Jazz (2003)
How does a person separate true, personal religion from a religion of conformity? Christianity is not really as white and wealthy and judgmental as we might want it to be.
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000)
It was the affection of Christ, not the brutality of a town, that healed Zacchaeus.
Blue Like Jazz (2003)
"Don."
"Yeah."
"Why don't people believe?"
"Why don't they believe what?"
"In God."
"I don't know. Not everyone has a Volkswagen."
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000)
Because of sin, I am self-addicted, living in the wreckage of the fall, my body, my heart, and my affections are prone to love things that kill me.
Blue Like Jazz (2003)
The more I ponder God's way, the more I believe He changes a person, or molds a person through enlightenment. He changes a person's mind.
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000)