Relaxing with God Quotes

“You can’t find relaxation if you try to make Jesus fit with the old way of law-based religion.”
― Andrew Farley, Relaxing with God: The Neglected Spiritual Discipline

“So God’s not up in heaven swirling around and around in some barbershop chair, with his face toward you when you’re good and his back to you when you’ve blown it. His face is always toward you.”
― Andrew Farley, Relaxing with God: The Neglected Spiritual Discipline

“Law crumbles religious dreams and shuts everybody up, revealing they are prisoners of sin.”
― Andrew Farley, Relaxing with God: The Neglected Spiritual Discipline

“unlearning. Underneath all the layers of religiosity that we’ve added over the years, our God has already adorned the halls of our heart with his exuberant love.”
― Andrew Farley, Relaxing with God: The Neglected Spiritual Discipline

“We have two options: we can live in the beautiful reality of who we really are, or we can live in a debilitating delusion.”
― Andrew Farley, Relaxing with God: The Neglected Spiritual Discipline

“The phrases “ask forgiveness” and “ask for forgiveness” do not appear even once in any New Testament epistle. In fact, while these phrases appear about a dozen times in the Qur’an, they don’t show up anywhere in the Bible at all! While it’s a very religious move to ask for forgiveness, the plain fact is that God works within a blood-based economy, so it’s not about asking.”
― Andrew Farley, Relaxing with God: The Neglected Spiritual Discipline

“We relax in the grand beauty of God’s perfect promises.”
― Andrew Farley, Relaxing with God: The Neglected Spiritual Discipline

“We take in the splendor of the new covenant and celebrate with amazement.”
― Andrew Farley, Relaxing with God: The Neglected Spiritual Discipline

“What if you truly are who God says you are? After all, when our view of ourselves disagrees with God’s view of us, who’s right?”
― Andrew Farley, Relaxing with God: The Neglected Spiritual Discipline