Divine Nobodies Quotes

“Perhaps everyone finds him or herself a time or two sifting through the rubble and ruins of a devastated life, wondering whether or not it's worth rebuilding or even salvageable.”
― Jim Palmer, Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God

“My striving couldn't get me any closer to knowing God. He had always been there, waiting for me to give up and listen.”
― Jim Palmer, Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God

“I'm slowly seeing that God really does love me, although I still sometimes try to earn his love and depend on my talents, achievements, or traits for self-worth. So many times, I choose destructive patterns and misplaced dependencies over his love. I'm weary from my lists of dos and don'ts and tired of trying to figure it out, yet I struggle to simply receive the love and life God wants to give.”
― Jim Palmer, Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God

“I can't control or predict God, but I trust him enough to allow this journey of knowing him to take me wherever it may lead, even if I don't know where that is until I get there.”
― Jim Palmer, Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God

“I’m beginning to see how the secret ways and deepest mysteries of God and his kingdom are often revealed off the beaten path of organized religion and frequently missed by the too-smart.”
― Jim Palmer, Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God