A Glorious Dark Quotes

“Faith isn’t just Good Friday and Easter Sunday; faith is awkward Saturday too. So much is sitting in that tomb with the soon-to-be resurrected Lord. It’s so dark. So damp. So scary. The silence is deafening. But there is hope in there.”
― A.J. Swoboda, A Glorious Dark: Finding Hope in the Tension between Belief and Experience

“Freedom in America means being freed from any restraint. Freedom in Christianity is being restrained on the cross that one might be free. Jesus was trapped on a weighty cross and yet he was free. His executioners, however, were free from the cross but were trapped.”
― A.J. Swoboda, A Glorious Dark: Finding Hope in the Tension between Belief and Experience

“the death of our waiting muscle has destroyed our souls.”
― A.J. Swoboda, A Glorious Dark: Finding Hope in the Tension between Belief and Experience

“How does God deal with evil? He puts a ring on it.”
― A.J. Swoboda, A Glorious Dark: Finding Hope in the Tension between Belief and Experience

“one of my greatest problems with the general American sentiment is that we take too high a perspective on humanity, believing that we have endless potential to progress, that we’ve evolved, that we’ve improved. I just don’t buy it. With all of our technological improvements, we are still fully broken people both inside and out. While we may be updating our human software here and there, the hard drive”
― A.J. Swoboda, A Glorious Dark: Finding Hope in the Tension between Belief and Experience