Reckless Love of God Quotes

“Writer Anne Lamott had a priest-friend tell her, “You can safely assume that you’ve created a God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Alex Early, The Reckless Love of God: Experiencing the Personal, Passionate Heart of the Gospel

“Because he wants us to walk in his joy and holiness, the Holy Spirit will convict us of sin. This conviction is constructive, not destructive. He’s out to destroy sin in you, but not you.”
― Alex Early, The Reckless Love of God: Experiencing the Personal, Passionate Heart of the Gospel

“To read the Bible and then conclude it means anything other than being deeply loved by God, conformed to the image of Jesus (Romans 8:29), and extending his message of repentance and belief in the gospel (Mark 1:14), simply misses the point of each book, sixty-six times in a row.”
― Alex Early, The Reckless Love of God: Experiencing the Personal, Passionate Heart of the Gospel

“Scripture, culture, and oneself. It could be said that the Christian who sets her focus on God’s glory and others must constantly read, interpret, and respond not only to the Biblical text but also to these other “texts.” This is getting down into the more earthy stuff known as contextualization—making sense out of God’s Word to real people, in real space, in real time, right in front of them.”
― Alex Early, The Reckless Love of God: Experiencing the Personal, Passionate Heart of the Gospel

“Jesus, the true light, exposes and forgives sin.”
― Alex Early, The Reckless Love of God: Experiencing the Personal, Passionate Heart of the Gospel

“Finally, another way that we, and many other Christians, have lost confidence in Jesus’ love for us is persisting in unrepentant sin. Playing the blame game, ignoring sin, or denying sin committed by us or against us, totally frustrates the “abiding” that Jesus called us to,”
― Alex Early, The Reckless Love of God: Experiencing the Personal, Passionate Heart of the Gospel

“The only way into Jesus’ choir is to sing off-key. The only way into God’s family is to own the fact that you don’t deserve to be in it. The only way to abide in the presence of the Holy Spirit is to accept that you are accepted. This is the gospel.”
― Alex Early, The Reckless Love of God: Experiencing the Personal, Passionate Heart of the Gospel

“He (Jesus) cannot be distracted from his late-night prayer in Gethsemane.”
― Alex Early, Reckless Love of God: Experiencing the Personal, Passionate Heart of the Gospel

“The reckless love of God belongs to us! That us is the church. And we can’t forget that before Christ, our lives weren’t neat and tidy. We are still a work in progress, so we shouldn’t be surprised when we meet someone who is struggling that they appear inconsiderate or rude.”
― Alex Early, The Reckless Love of God: Experiencing the Personal, Passionate Heart of the Gospel

“Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote, “God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.”20”
― Alex Early, The Reckless Love of God: Experiencing the Personal, Passionate Heart of the Gospel

“It may not strike you as “loving” to see Jesus flipping tables and driving people out of the temple with a whip, but it was. How? He was loving the oppressed and the oppressor. The oppressed were being defended. The oppressor was being confronted. At the end of the day, to confront someone who is in sin is actually to love that person, not hurt him or her. Allowing someone to persist in their sin is the opposite of love. All that Jesus did was a demonstration of the perfect grace and truth of God (John 1:17).”
― Alex Early, The Reckless Love of God: Experiencing the Personal, Passionate Heart of the Gospel

“We are content to stand across the room, trying desperately not to make eye contact with the God who “wants to dance.” We’d rather just blush and remain completely invulnerable—keeping to ourselves, our supposed dignity intact—meanwhile, cringing inside, longing to be our true selves.”
― Alex Early, The Reckless Love of God: Experiencing the Personal, Passionate Heart of the Gospel

“We are content to stand across the room, trying desperately not to make eye contact with the God who “wants to dance.” We’d rather just blush and remain completely invulnerable—keeping to ourselves, our supposed dignity intact—meanwhile, cringing inside, longing to be our true selves. In this book, I want”
― Alex Early, The Reckless Love of God: Experiencing the Personal, Passionate Heart of the Gospel