Real Live Preacher Quotes

"When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things."
-Real Live Preacher in Trust quotes.

"This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you're doing, or it comes out flat. You can't fake your way through this."
-Real Live Preacher in Writing quotes.

"This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same."
-Real Live Preacher in Change quotes.

"God, I don't have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it."
-Real Live Preacher in Faith quotes.

"I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud."
-Real Live Preacher in Writing quotes.

"I'm searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known."
-Real Live Preacher in God quotes.

"No one forgives with more grace and love than a child."
-Real Live Preacher in Forgiveness quotes.

"One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life."
-Real Live Preacher

"Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you."
-Real Live Preacher in Writing quotes.

"The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this."
-Real Live Preacher in Faith quotes.

"I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient."
-Real Live Preacher in Love quotes.

"You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone."
-Real Live Preacher in Love quotes.

"It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us."
-Real Live Preacher

"Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move."
-Real Live Preacher in Forgiveness quotes.

"Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path."
-Real Live Preacher in God quotes.

"EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We're looking for something, though we're not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist."
-Real Live Preacher in God quotes.

"If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is true about you, it is likely true about many people. And if you can have faith in your integrity and your motives, then you can write about yourself without fear."
-Real Live Preacher in Writing quotes.

"Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go."
-Real Live Preacher

"The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season."
-Real Live Preacher

"I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks."
-Real Live Preacher in Truth quotes.

"And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama."
-Real Live Preacher in Faith quotes.

"Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past."
-Real Live Preacher

"When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked."
-Real Live Preacher in God quotes.

"Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way."
-Real Live Preacher in Forgiveness quotes.

"I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer."
-Real Live Preacher in Writing quotes.

"My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential."
-Real Live Preacher

"You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists."
-Real Live Preacher in Prayer quotes.