Body & Soul Quotes

“Because God is with us in the human struggle, we are no longer destined to fruitlessly rearrange the circumstances of our lives. We no longer depend on another move, another relationship, or another weight-loss program to rescue us from nothingness, from that persistent ache in the pit of our souls. We can flourish because in Jesus Christ the Creator came to us and restored our dignity as God’s children.”
― M. Craig Barnes, Body & Soul: Reclaiming the Heidelberg Catechism

“Scripture teaches that God created all things ex nihilo—“out of nothing.” Therefore all things derive their existence from the Creator, even the dust of the ground that God used to create humanity. Apart from the Creator there is only nothingness, or non-being.5 So when human beings base our identities on anything other than God—a job, being in love, accumulating wealth—it results only in returning to nothing.”
― M. Craig Barnes, Body & Soul: Reclaiming the Heidelberg Catechism

“We all lose dreams and cherished people, which could make life a continual experience in despair. But if we lean on the great two-thousand-year-old faith of the church, then life is a continual experience of the salvation of God, to whom we belong. In God’s hands nothing, and no one, is ever lost. Our only comfort. According”
― M. Craig Barnes, Body & Soul: Reclaiming the Heidelberg Catechism