The Provocative God Quotes

“Our failure to forgive others keeps us in bondage. When you fail to take the hard road of learning to love your neighbor, or your enemy, or the one who painfully wronged you, you will find yourself forever stuck in a pit that from time to time overwhelms you. Forgiveness is hard in the short term. But staying stuck in the pit of unforgiveness, while easier in the short term, is death in the long term.”
― Dan Lacich, The Provocative God: Radical Things God Has Said and Done

“in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” (Colossians 2:9).”
― Dan Lacich, The Provocative God: Radical Things God Has Said and Done

“The only way I am able to forgive another person is to remind myself daily of the forgiveness I have in Christ. I am compelled to forgive another, who is really my equal, fellow human being, because I have been forgiven by Christ, the Lord of Lords and King of Kings. I cannot and must not withhold from my equal what has been freely given to me by He who is my superior in every conceivable way.”
― Dan Lacich, The Provocative God: Radical Things God Has Said and Done

“If you are to truly forgive someone then you must never forget what they have done. Yes, you read that right. If you are to truly forgive someone then you must never forget what they have done. If you forget it, then you have not forgiven. The point of forgiveness is to treat someone with love and respect even when you do remember how they have hurt you.”
― Dan Lacich, The Provocative God: Radical Things God Has Said and Done

“Our dignity comes because we are made in the image of God. Our significance comes because we are called by Jesus to be world-changers. Our power and strength comes because we are filled with the Holy Spirit who gives us the ability to receive the insults of others and respond as Christ responded to those who hurled insults at Him. ”
― Dan Lacich, The Provocative God: Radical Things God Has Said and Done

“What are you holding onto? What in your life are you clinging to in fear and desperation? The sooner you are willing to release that and give it up to God, the sooner you will be free to experience life as never before.”
― Dan Lacich, The Provocative God: Radical Things God Has Said and Done

“It is in the cross that we find not a stumbling block and foolishness but the only real answer to our sin and guilt in the face of a just and loving God.”
― Dan Lacich, The Provocative God: Radical Things God Has Said and Done

“Jesus said that the grain of wheat only truly comes to life when it first falls to the ground and dies. How ironic that we only truly experience life when we first die to ourselves and take up the cross of Christ.”
― Dan Lacich, The Provocative God: Radical Things God Has Said and Done

“The scandal of God coming in the flesh is hard enough for people to accept. That this God would submit Himself to an horrific death by crucifixion is even harder”
― Dan Lacich, The Provocative God: Radical Things God Has Said and Done