The Gospel of Falling Down Quotes

“the Divine-Me is God-centred, which also means self-less. It is unconcerned with self-preservation. The Divine-Me is outward looking, forgiving and content. The Divine-Me is secure without the need of achieving; secure because of being made in the image and likeness of God. The Divine-Me has a natural ability to ‘Let Go and Let God’. The Divine-Me is un-offendable.”
― Mark Townsend, The Gospel of Falling Down: The Beauty Of Failure In An Age Of Success

“The little-me is egocentric, concerned with self-preservation and inward looking. It has a habit of being judgemental, both to self and to others. It is critical, insecure, needy, defensive and proud. The little-me is only ever secure in achievement and is therefore highly fragile and easily offended. The little-me wants to control and manage, and cannot easily let go.”
― Mark Townsend, The Gospel of Falling Down: The Beauty Of Failure In An Age Of Success

“was mentally creating a God in the image and likeness of humans.”
― Mark Townsend, The Gospel of Falling Down: The Beauty Of Failure In An Age Of Success

“just as we all know what it means to witness something being broken, we also know what it means to hope for restoration.”
― Mark Townsend, The Gospel of Falling Down: The Beauty Of Failure In An Age Of Success

“Brokenness is a fact of life for us all, and I’m not just talking about physical breaking. Many of us have also had more than a taste of emotional brokenness too.”
― Mark Townsend, The Gospel of Falling Down: The Beauty Of Failure In An Age Of Success

“Only those who have reached the limit of themselves, with nothing to offer in their own defence, fall into the abyss of love. In fact only sinners understand the gospel. It is not available to anyone else.3 David Runcorn”
― Mark Townsend, The Gospel of Falling Down: The Beauty Of Failure In An Age Of Success

“If we think we can turn ourselves into the perfect Christian, we have missed the point of the entire Gospel, and will be making the Christ within us harder to see, not easier. We will be adding more layers and more clutter that one day will simply have to be removed”
― Mark Townsend, The Gospel of Falling Down: The Beauty Of Failure In An Age Of Success

“The fact is that if we try too hard to be the perfect Christian we will in fact be working against the current of transforming grace rather than with it.”
― Mark Townsend, The Gospel of Falling Down: The Beauty Of Failure In An Age Of Success

“One of the things that (we) religious people often do is try to change ourselves into what we think God or the Church wants us to be like.”
― Mark Townsend, The Gospel of Falling Down: The Beauty Of Failure In An Age Of Success

“Spirituality is about seeing, waking up out of a deep sleep, remembering what”
― Mark Townsend, The Gospel of Falling Down: The Beauty Of Failure In An Age Of Success

“remembering what I had forgotten; of rediscovering what had been submerged under mental clutter.”
― Mark Townsend, The Gospel of Falling Down: The Beauty Of Failure In An Age Of Success

“the two steps back (the falling) are as important as the three steps forward.”
― Mark Townsend, The Gospel of Falling Down: The Beauty Of Failure In An Age Of Success

“Humanity is walking on the gold mine of the kingdom of God, but does not know it.”
― Mark Townsend, The Gospel of Falling Down: The Beauty Of Failure In An Age Of Success

“I loved the underlying truth its messy First Century Founder taught – that we are loved and held and welcomed as we are. And I loved nothing more than enabling the broken, wounded and crapped upon to re-connect with that truth. But I hated the fact that such things as ‘respectability’, ‘political correctness’ and ‘keeping one’s nose clean’ were so often seen as the hallmarks of a ‘good’ Christian, rather than the ability to see magic in the messiest ones.”
― Mark Townsend, The Gospel of Falling Down: The Beauty Of Failure In An Age Of Success