Finishing Well Quotes

“That’s right,” I said. “Today he’s a serious Christian, and he’s now caught the rabbit four more times. He’s won six Grammy awards, but he doesn’t seem to be as troubled by it now.”
― Bob Buford, Finishing Well: The Adventure of Life Beyond Halftime

“The church has always taught the importance of surrender, yet we don’t (perhaps can’t) let go of our own desires and ambition in order to let God take control of our lives. The mere thought of that gives all of us pause. I said, “What you seem to be describing, Dallas, is a knowing/doing gap, that even what we know, what we’ve been taught, what we’ve heard in sermons, what we’ve read in books, doesn’t seem to be a viable reality for most Christians. There seems to be a chasm between our knowledge and our ability or willingness to do it.” “That’s very true,” he said, “and I would even put it in these terms: We know about these things but we do not believe them. Too many Christians profess to believe them because they’re expected to, but profession of belief doesn’t carry the action. Only real belief carries action. We live in a context where millions and millions of professing Christians do not believe what they profess because they’ve been taught that the important thing is to profess it whether you believe it or not.”
― Bob Buford, Finishing Well: The Adventure of Life Beyond Halftime

“The quest for success allows no rest. Our sense of accomplishment seems to evaporate with the achievement of each goal, and immediately the need arises to find another goal. Is there a way off this treadmill? Are we doomed to have every achievement disappear like a soap bubble the moment we grasp it? Success doesn’t seem to produce significance, causing us to wonder: Can we find a goal that really satisfies, so that we are not continually compelled to drop each accomplishment in the dust and plunge after the next one?”
― Bob P. Buford, Finishing Well: The Adventure of Life Beyond Halftime

“Odds are, you’ll live a whole adult lifetime that wasn’t available to your parents and grandparents. Their life expectancy at birth was fifty years. We have two lifetimes now. Life I is what occurs before halftime, and Life II comes afterward.”
― Bob P. Buford, Finishing Well: The Adventure of Life Beyond Halftime