Trading Fathers Quotes

“My biological father was a hardhearted, soft-willed creator of a fiefdom under
which I suffered for no good thing. Our Forever Father is a kindhearted, iron-willed creator of a
world in which he suffers with us for a coming Kingdom worth everything it costs.”
― Karen Rabbitt, Trading Fathers: Forgiving Dad, Embracing God

“The deepest lie I believed was that God is either all-loving or all-powerful, but he
cannot be both. I now cling to the idea that he displays his absolute, all-loving power, not in a
continual rescue, but in a constant suffering. In these days between Jesus’s first advent and his
second coming, God suffers with us to accomplish his purposes.”
― Karen Rabbitt, Trading Fathers: Forgiving Dad, Embracing God

“Jesus: You’ve grasped that I had to suffer for you; I don’t think you’ve quite
understood that I also suffer with you.”
― Karen Rabbitt, Trading Fathers: Forgiving Dad, Embracing God

“I can trust a God who suffers with me.”
― Karen Rabbitt, Trading Fathers: Forgiving Dad, Embracing God

“In a world of choice, suffering is always a possibility. We
suffer because of our own self-destructive choices. We suffer from the sins of others. And we
suffer because of Adam and Eve’s first sin. Whether large or small—abuse or vomiting—
suffering is built into the system that God has designed. I could either accept that or fight it. I
was getting tired of fighting.”
― Karen Rabbitt, Trading Fathers: Forgiving Dad, Embracing God