The Dream of God Quotes

“I will live by the best I can discern today. Tomorrow I may find out I was wrong. Since I do not live by being right, I am not destroyed by being wrong.”
― Verna J. Dozier, The Dream of God: A Call to Return

“Because the Bible is a theological book, it is a book of wrestlings, not a book of answers. In each age the people have to struggle to hear the word of the Lord for their time, and sometimes their hearing is keener than at other times.”
― Verna J. Dozier, The Dream of God: A Call to Return

“Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear”
― Verna J. Dozier, The Dream of God: A Call to Return

“Doubt is not the opposite of faith. Fear is. Fear will not risk that even if I am wrong, I will trust that if I move today by the light that is given to me, knowing it is only finite and partial, I will know more and different things tomorrow than I know today, and I can be open to the new possibility I cannot even imagine today.”
― Verna J. Dozier, The Dream of God: A Call to Return

“The only right relationship between God and God's people is gratitude for what God has done and faith in what God will do.”
― Verna J. Dozier, The Dream of God: A Call to Return

“Biblical faith is not intellectual assent to a proposition. It is risking that God is worthy of trust.”
― Verna J. Dozier, The Dream of God: A Call to Return

“The opposite of faith is not doubt, but fear. Faith implies risk. I will cast my life on this possibility that God is for me. I do not have to have any proof except my own commitment. I do not have to claim complete understanding -- that is idolatry.”
― Verna J. Dozier, The Dream of God: A Call to Return