Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality Quotes

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Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either. We sit around in our underwear until noon then go downstairs and make coffee, fry some eggs, read the paper, read part of a book, smell ...

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do s...

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not...

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

When I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone. Rick does not have much tolerance for people living alone. He’s like Bill Clinton in that he feels everyone’s pain. If Rick thinks so...

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

It comforts me to think that if we are created beings the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality and so i...

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz m...

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

If you dont love somebody, it gets annoying if they tell you what to do or what to feel. When you love them, you get pleasure from their pleasure nad it makes it easy to serve. I didnt love God because i didnt know God. universe is not effected by ti...

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

I will give you this, my love, and I will not bargain or barter any longer. I will love you, as sure as He has loved me. I will discover what I can discover and though you remain a mystery, save God's own knowledge, what I disclose of you I will keep...

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

...to be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is; a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovabl...

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply love. I am giving myself to you, and tomorrow I will do it again. ...

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality