Fully Beloved Quotes

“We see how wind, often translated as 'spirit' or 'breath,' moved over the face of the unformed waters. This high-flying entity is not something flighty. Even in these primordial beginnings, the Spirit didn't just move or hang or hover; it brooded—in the best possible way, as in solicitous care. Think of a bird minding its eggs or hatchlings. God through the Spirit is 'above the face' of the water.”
― Timothy Jones;Jill Zook, Fully Beloved: Meeting God in Our Heartaches and Our Hopes

“We think we have to "find God" through our spiritual "journey." But central and essential to life is a God who both makes us and seeks us—who goes looking for us and addresses us even when we rest in the womb.”
― Timothy Jones;Jill Zook, Fully Beloved: Meeting God in Our Heartaches and Our Hopes

“To want to be loved and to want to love comes with costs. To care risks stumbling over the fickleness of human love.”
― Timothy Jones;Jill Zook, Fully Beloved: Meeting God in Our Heartaches and Our Hopes

“But the last thing the world needs is another book of spiritual platitudes or vague truths, detached from everyday struggles. I have to tie what I believe or question or long to experience to something true.”
― Timothy Jones;Jill Zook, Fully Beloved: Meeting God in Our Heartaches and Our Hopes