Echo Quotes

“Take your religion seriously. Whatever level your training may be, train it again tomorrow. Consider your spirituality more than a hobby for weekends, more than a relic of some dead people that you have to put up with on Wednesday afternoons to keep your mother off your back. It is a weapon for your singular stand in the greatest war ever waged.”
― Jonathan Fisk, Echo: Unbroken Truth Worth Repeating, Again

“It is the cruelest torment imaginable, not only to endure all the wrong and its results that the rest of us deal with, but to do so while knowing how right you have made it to be. Jesus' suffering was, for Him, the most backward and wrong experience imaginable.”
― Jonathan Fisk, Echo: Unbroken Truth Worth Repeating, Again

“Let us have hearty, earthy mercy. Let us have love that can admit that I do not like you, my brother, and you do not like me much either. But we are both slaves set free by the same Good King. Neither of us has ever managed to quite fully do our duty. We both deserve to be cast back into the debtor’s dark prison with bankruptcies we could never repay. So whatever fights we might have with one another now are best dropped before we ever think to call the Judge. He will surely condemn us both if He finds that after His love has come down to us, we still scrabble and fight over such petty misdemeanors.”
― Jonathan M. Fisk, Echo: Unbroken Truth Worth Repeating, Again

“The unworthy hearts of wretches like you and me, wavering and unstable as we are, will continue to be the result of the Gospel. Because Jesus’ promises do not fail.”
― Jonathan M. Fisk, Echo: Unbroken Truth Worth Repeating, Again

“The Christian hope of going to heaven after bodily death is only the hope of being held safely with Jesus while the body rots away in the ground, waiting for the day when Jesus will return to re-create that body, making for that body a new cosmos to dwell in, scoured clean of all those things that made our bodies mortal in this world.”
― Jonathan M. Fisk, Echo: Unbroken Truth Worth Repeating, Again

“But more than anything else, the birth, suffering, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus means that no matter how this life appears, no matter what destruction or confusion is leveled upon us now, Jesus has the entire thing fully under His control. No matter what you face, no matter how high or deep, no matter how humiliating or debilitating, no matter how dangerous, whether in pain, suffering, age, decay, moth, rust, or sickness, no matter what atrocity the world lifts against you, even in the event that the world destroys you, in all these things you are more than a conqueror. But it is not the kind of conqueror the world can see. The Christian conquers the world not by sight, but by faith alone.”
― Jonathan M. Fisk, Echo: Unbroken Truth Worth Repeating, Again

“Instead of asking, “What if our children never have families?” we ask, “What if they never have enough stuff?” It is this reversal of priorities that is the real root of the war against marriage. We are all too comfortable in a culture built on placing a higher value on Me than on Us.”
― Jonathan M. Fisk, Echo: Unbroken Truth Worth Repeating, Again

“Instead of words, the mystic believes that God uses inklings, touches, sensations, and dreamy whisperings. She never pauses long enough to think it odd that the God who could say “Let there be light,” and there was light, now doesn’t quite have the power to tell you what He wants you to know in a clear and straightforward way.”
― Jonathan M. Fisk, Echo: Unbroken Truth Worth Repeating, Again