Wild in the Hollow Quotes

“Had God pulled me from Adam’s rib and placed me naked in the garden, the story would be no different. Let’s not blame Eve anymore. If she hadn’t eaten the fruit, it would most certainly have been me. I would have eaten it again and again, and then I would have given you a bite.”
― Amber C. Haines, Wild in the Hollow: On Chasing Desire and Finding the Broken Way Home

“American culture never allows you to be satisfied,” he said. “When you want something, you go after it and get it, and as soon as you do, you want for something else, maybe a thousand more things. American culture will never have enough. It stands to reason that the church would follow suit.”
― Amber C. Haines, Wild in the Hollow: On Chasing Desire and Finding the Broken Way Home

“When we seek the kingdom, I believe we’re seeking a proper order and placement of things. I believe we’re seeking a table and we’re doing work that gives life. I believe we walk in glory, and it becomes our joy to turn our hearts in the direction of the King, who works not from the castle and not beside but from within. The King is our friend. The King no longer calls us servants.4 We aren’t working in the field away from him. We work in communion. We share in the suffering of his labor, yes, but we share in his joy too.”
― Amber C. Haines, Wild in the Hollow: On Chasing Desire and Finding the Broken Way Home

“Guilt is anti-peace, and without the fruit of peace, there’s no real freedom and no real home. Instead, there’s only the chasing of other, new desires we hope will fill the hollow.”
― Amber C. Haines, Wild in the Hollow: On Chasing Desire and Finding the Broken Way Home

“repentance is the grieving of something lost or something that feels wasted; it’s the recognition that you chased other desires when you could have had God—your satisfaction—all along.”
― Amber C. Haines, Wild in the Hollow: On Chasing Desire and Finding the Broken Way Home

“So what do we do with leaders who are living contrary to our Jesus? What do we do with those who fill our desires with a twisted gospel? For such a time as this, we love them. We speak words of blessing. We clean their toilets. We wash their feet. If we want the church to be like Jesus, then we must be like Jesus. If we want the church to look like Jesus, to show how all desires are fulfilled in him alone, then we must be ministers of the gospel right where we are.”
― Amber C. Haines, Wild in the Hollow: On Chasing Desire and Finding the Broken Way Home

“seventeen first cousins and my daddy’s mama, who we called Mamaw. When”
― Amber C. Haines, Wild in the Hollow: On Chasing Desire and Finding the Broken Way Home

“Our lives are made of metaphor, and we can recognize Jesus throughout creation and in those who have never heard his name. The apostle Paul wrote in Romans 1 that no one has an excuse. God is everywhere. Yoga poses and Gregorian chant, buttermilk cornbread, the Grand Canyon, and the picture of a rainbow drawn by the hand of my two-year-old all speak of him if we’re looking.”
― Amber C. Haines, Wild in the Hollow: On Chasing Desire and Finding the Broken Way Home

“I asked myself, do I want my kingdom here in the big, loud, visible now, or do I want the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of the small, the kingdom for the broken, the kingdom of the invisible? Only one is satisfactory. Only one King can tie the church back together. Only one is the healer of my mind, my body, and my soul.”
― Amber C. Haines, Wild in the Hollow: On Chasing Desire and Finding the Broken Way Home

“The other kind of control is self-control, a gift born by the Spirit of God to help us walk in the narrow way of life and to say no to things that pull us aside. I had neglected the Spirit within me, the self-control given to me in him, and I had tried to claim control that wasn’t even possible for me to have. Self-control is a rest in him and his way, and all other striving is an illusion of control that divided me in three, mind from body from soul.”
― Amber C. Haines, Wild in the Hollow: On Chasing Desire and Finding the Broken Way Home