Finding God in My Loneliness Quotes

“If we’re frustrated when the Internet is slow or excessively irritated by the full-basketed shopper in the express lane, then it’s pretty likely that we’re going to be discouraged if our ministry efforts don’t soon bear visible fruit. We’re an instantaneous people, and we carry that expectation into every area of life. But God doesn’t work that way, as a close look at his work through redemptive history will reveal. When it comes to results, serving God faithfully means serving him blindly. We may never see the fruit of our prayers or our teaching or our writing or our godly parenting or whatever form our calling takes. If getting tangible results is our prerequisite for service, at some point we are bound to give up. We will only keep going if we do as Paul instructed: “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men” (Col. 3:23).”
― Lydia Brownback, Finding God in My Loneliness

“Self-seeking breeds loneliness; self-forgetfulness breeds fullness.”
― Lydia Brownback, Finding God in My Loneliness

“The god of open options is a cruel and vindictive god. He will break your heart. He will not let anyone get too close. But at the same time, because he is so spiteful, he will not let anyone get too far away because that would mean they are no longer an option. On and on it continues, exhausting and frustrating and confusing and endless, pulling towards and then pushing away, like the tide on a beach, never finally committing one way or the other. We have been like the starving man sitting in front of an all-you-can-eat buffet, dying simply because he would not choose between the chicken and the shrimp. The god of open options is also a liar. He promises you that by keeping your options open, you can have everything and everyone. But in the end, you get nothing and no one.”
― Lydia Brownback, Finding God in My Loneliness

“God created human beings with a capacity for loneliness so that we would yearn for and find our all in him.”
― Lydia Brownback, Finding God in My Loneliness