May 22, 2007
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Velvet Elvis, Part 1
i, the book thief, have begun a new book–the Velvet Elvis. currently on page 59, but i found some good stuff already. and there is something…interesting, weird, whatever about this book. it has made alot of stuff i’ve already known or heard sound so new and interesting…especially stuff like…the Bible.
“You rarely defend the things you love. you enjoy them and tell others about them and invite others to enjoy them with you.”
“Jesus invites everyone to jump. And saying yet to the invitation doesn’t mean we have to have it all figured out…i can jump and still have questions and doubts. i often meet people who are waiting to follow God until they have all their questions answered. they will be waiting a long time, because if we knew everything, we’d be…God. A Christian doesn’t avoid the questions, a Christian embraces them. in fact, to truly pursue the living God, we have to see the need for questions. questions are not scary. what is scary is when people don’t have any. what is tragic is faith that has no room for them…a question by its very nature acknowledges that the person asking the question does not have all the answers…they are looking outside themselves for guidance. questions, no matter how shocking or blasphemous or arrogant or ignorant or raw, are rooted in humility. questions bring freedom. freedom that i don’t have to be God and i don’t have to pretend that i have it all figured out. i can let God be God.”
“I did not ask for success. i asked for wonder.” –Abraham Joshua Heschel
“Truth always leads to more truth. Because truth is insight into God and God is infinite and God has no boundaries or edges. So truth always has layers and depth and texture.”
“When everything gets answered, it’s fake. The mystery is the truth.” –Sean Penn
