Sean Gladding > Quotes

“Sin is not just something I do. Sin is social; it always impacts the whole community.”
― Sean Gladding, The Story of God, the Story of Us: Getting Lost and Found in the Bible

“Envy = Desire + Resentment”
― Sean Gladding, Ten: Words of Life for an Addicted, Compulsive, Cynical,Words of Life for an Addicted, Compulsive, Cynical, Divided and Worn-Out Culture

“Did you hear it? Can you picture the symmetry? Our God is a God of hospitality, creating a place for a people, a place where all life can flourish. God provides for all creation, as our Story shows. Our God is a God of order; we can trust God to provide for us now as in the beginning. “I know that it may not seem that way today, for here we are, exiles in a foreign land. Life is hard. We know that. And that is why we must tell each other the Story, and keep telling it, to do exactly what God has continually told us to do: remember . . . remember . . . remember.”[5]”
― Sean Gladding, The Story of God, the Story of Us: Getting Lost and Found in the Bible

“we can only take care of our side of the street.”
― Sean Gladding, Ten: Words of Life for an Addicted, Compulsive, Cynical,Words of Life for an Addicted, Compulsive, Cynical, Divided and Worn-Out Culture

“We cannot save ourselves from the very things we find in these Ten Words: betrayal, theft, envy, greed, deception, even murder. We can’t save ourselves from those things happening to us. Nor can we save ourselves from the very impulses that might cause us to violate these Ten Words and commit acts that wound people deeply.”
― Sean Gladding, Ten: Words of Life for an Addicted, Compulsive, Cynical,Words of Life for an Addicted, Compulsive, Cynical, Divided and Worn-Out Culture

“Because the painful truth is this: no matter what we do, we cannot control life.”
― Sean Gladding, Ten: Words of Life for an Addicted, Compulsive, Cynical,Words of Life for an Addicted, Compulsive, Cynical, Divided and Worn-Out Culture

“give”
― Sean Gladding, The Story of God, the Story of Us: Getting Lost and Found in the Bible