Not God Enough Quotes

“We want a God who will restore us to peaceful equilibrium, take away our stress, and promise us a blissful afterlife. Most Christians haven’t rejected God; they have just reduced him.”
― J.D. Greear, Not God Enough: Why Your Small God Leads to Big Problems

“As C. S. Lewis said, “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
― J.D. Greear, Not God Enough: Why Your Small God Leads to Big Problems

“A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, . . . well, earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing.”
― J.D. Greear, Not God Enough: Why Your Small God Leads to Big Problems

“It’s one thing to stand by a campfire and say that you’re ready to die for Jesus, and it’s quite another when you think someone is about to take you up on the offer.”
― J.D. Greear, Not God Enough: Why Your Small God Leads to Big Problems

“Because we have made him small enough to be understood, he is no longer big enough to be worshiped.”
― J.D. Greear, Not God Enough: Why Your Small God Leads to Big Problems