Thoughts to Ponder: Power, Obedience
We cannot participate in God’s work but then insist on doing it our own way. … We can’t live a life more like Jesus by embracing a way of life less like Jesus.
— Eugene Peterson
Learn the lesson that if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a scepter but a hoe.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
The great Christian revolutions come not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when somebody takes radically something that was always there.
— H. Richard Niebuhr
The church doesn’t need any more “powerful” leaders. It needs more leaders with prophetic power.
— Thomas Hohstadt
The greatness of a man’s power is in the measure of his surrender.
—William Booth
God’s power is most visible in the helpless and broken figure of Jesus of Nazareth hanging dying on the cross.
— Michael Jinkins
God has yet to bless anyone except where they actually are, and if we faithlessly discard situation after situation, moment after moment, as not being ‘right,’ we will simply have no place to receive his kingdom into our life. For those situations and moments are our life.
— Dallas Willard
The golden rule for understanding in spiritual matters is not intellect, but obedience.
— Oswald Chambers
