Let God Quotes

“True faith won’t let us grab hold to safety or latch on to dry formulas. True faith won’t let us make an unflinching rule based on God’s prior action. What brings us comfort and peace this time won’t be God’s way next time. If we drew relief from predictable patterns”
― Winn Collier, Let God: Spiritual Conversations with François Fénelon

“Solid confidence comes when you can shrug your shoulders”
― Winn Collier, Let God: Spiritual Conversations with François Fénelon

“Also”
― Winn Collier, Let God: Spiritual Conversations with François Fénelon

“Do you really think that the way to get rid of self-absorption, the way to learn to love God more, is by filling your head with more facts? Really? You already know more than you could ever possibly put to good use. You don’t need to know more truth. What you do need, however, is to start obeying the truth you already have.”
― Winn Collier, Let God: Spiritual Conversations with François Fénelon

“Talk less than you act”
― Winn Collier, Let God: Spiritual Conversations with François Fénelon

“the inner skirmish where our soul fights against God is often more painful than the cross itself. Really, the cross isn’t the main source of pain – fighting God, now that hurts. If we can learn to recognize God’s hand and if we can learn to stop pushing God’s hand away, we will find comfort in our affliction. We will find joy in the simple peace of trusting God, letting God send pain where he must. Nothing will shorten and soothe our pain more than surrendering to God.”
― Winn Collier, Let God: Spiritual Conversations with François Fénelon

“God desires to roll up his sleeves and get busy in your heart. God wants to use the painful experience to clean out the rubbish in your soul. This is what I see: I see God closing off everything to you, everything but him. I see God determined to transform you. I see God cutting off every human resource that might distract you from the fresh life God intends to create in you. God is a jealous God. No one else will be able to take credit for your rescue. Only God.”
― Winn Collier, Let God: Spiritual Conversations with François Fénelon

“Don’t get too bent out of shape by what others say about you. Let people wag their tongues while you worry about obeying God. Besides, you would never be able to meet everyone else’s expectations. You couldn’t do it, and it isn’t worth all the grief to try. For every slander spoken against you, replace it with a moment of silence, of peace, of conversation with God. We must love others, but we must not demand friendship in return. Friends abandon us and then come back; friends come and go. Take your hands off the relationship and let them do what they will do. Don’t try to grasp after them - it’s like trying to catch a feather in a windstorm.”
― Winn Collier, Let God: Spiritual Conversations with François Fénelon

“Be okay with the simpler way.”
― Winn Collier, Let God: Spiritual Conversations with François Fénelon

“Any pride that we detect needs to be abandoned, every little bit. We need to be particularly on the lookout for the pride that likes to attach itself to spiritual activity. When we think we are growing wise in God’s ways (getting lots of spiritual knowledge) and when we think we are becoming quite virtuous (doing or saying the right things), watch out! This is dangerous stuff. In fact, it is more dangerous than a lot of the more external concerns, the obvious sins the culture wants to press on you. Spiritual pride is harder to detect. It seems milder and often works under the guise of spiritual maturity. So we need to be humble top to bottom. We should never think that we are the cause of our spiritual growth. We aren’t the ones building virtue into our lives.”
― Winn Collier, Let God: Spiritual Conversations with François Fénelon

“Luke’s gospel reminds us, when we have been forgiven much, we love much. Love will overcome your faults. The problem, however, is that often we want all the warm feelings and immediate perks love brings, but we don’t really want love itself. We deceive ourselves because all our hard work trying to love well isn’t really for the sake of love. We often use love as yet one more self-absorbed benchmark to measure and demonstrate our (perceived) robust spiritual life. We are trying to make sure we are doing right, that we love right. When we do this, St. Francis of Sales tells us that we are more occupied with the notion of love than with the person of love: Jesus.”
― Winn Collier, Let God: Spiritual Conversations with François Fénelon

“Prayer is just another name for loving God. We think that the more words we pile on (and the bigger the better), the more we are praying. No. God is your Father, and He knows what you need before you ever ask. Good prayer arises from a place deeper than a barrage of pious words. Genuine prayer emerges from the heart.”
― Winn Collier, Let God: Spiritual Conversations with François Fénelon