Spirituality for the Rest of Us Quotes

“But success and failure reveal nothing about our spirituality.”
― Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us

“Trying to follow all the best practices of all best Christians won't make you a better Christian. It might make you a nervous wreck.”
― Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us

“Their faith and trust in God wasn't shown in a buoyant confidence that God would come through. It was shown in the trusting act of obedience—gathering to pray even though they were sure it was a lost cause.”
― Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us

“IS IT A SIN TO BE AVERAGE?”
― Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us

“The tell-tale mark of religion is easy to spot. It's a one-size-fits-all approach to spirituality: “Follow our rules, fulfill our rituals, and God (or the gods) will be pleased and placated.”
― Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us

“Yet, ironically, the one thing most people think accountability groups do best is what they don't do well at all. They're not good at preventing sin.”
― Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us

“But Jesus didn't say, “If you love me, you'll fulfill your potential.” He said, “If you love me, you will obey what I command.”39”
― Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us

“In my own profession, some surveys show that up to 80 percent of pastors rate their preaching skills as well above average. Our congregants aren't so kind; 60 percent say our messages aren't so hot—rating them as average or below.”
― Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us

“In my own profession, some surveys show that up to 80 percent of pastors rate their preaching skills as well above average.”
― Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us

“I saw one survey of over 150,000 college students where everyone—that's right, every single person—rated themselves as above average in their ability to get along with others. That means at least 75,000 of them were mildly to seriously delusional!”
― Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us

“We take too much credit when the walls of Jericho cave in and too much blame when our Ai's can't be conquered.”
― Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us

“Inner peace and a clear conscience can't always be trusted.”
― Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us

“the Bible nowhere calls for us to have a balanced life.”
― Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us

“No one likes to be on the receiving end of a gift projector's drive-by guilting.”
― Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us

“DON'T MISS THIS. Peter and his prayer-meeting friends seem to have had absolutely no expectation that God would really answer their prayers. Their doubts were so great that when God did answer, they didn't believe it. They had exactly the kind of faith that many of us have been told God won't honor. But he did.”
― Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us

“When they prayed for rain, they carried an umbrella.”
― Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us

“There was no getting around it. Whether it was a chronic deceiver like Jacob, a horn-dog like Samson, a never-believe-God-the-first-time warrior like Gideon, or a zealous persecutor like the apostle Paul, God had a way of blessing and using the wrong people.”
― Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us

“A big part of the problem is that many of us were taught that one of the greatest signs of spiritual maturity is the self-discipline to do God's will even when we don't want to.”
― Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us

“That's where those of us who choose to treat Christianity as a team sport have a special advantage. Even when we don't have a clue what, if anything, the Bible says about a particular situation, we invariably know someone who does—or someone who at least knows someone who does.”
― Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us

“The primary reason to be in a small group setting is not to learn more biblical information.”
― Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us

“Jesus was making it clear that the most important thing in pleasing God is not a particular approach to spirituality or style of ministry; it's the fruit that matters, the end results produced by our life and ministry.”
― Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us

“DO GOOD READERS MAKE BETTER CHRISTIANS?”
― Larry Osborne, A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God: Spirituality for the Rest of Us