Quotes from Ken Gire

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.

We reach for God in many ways. Through our pictures and our prayers. Through our writing and our worship. And through them He reaches us.

While we have been pursuing God he has been rushing toward us with reckless love arms flung wide to hug us home.

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.

Because what touches His heart is not how much we know, but how much we love. Not how pure we are, but how passionate. Maybe that is why, when Pharisees were fighting over theology, prostitutes were falling at the Savior's feet and slipping into the kingdom of God on their tears.

God doesn't offer his Word as a magic fix-all pill that we can ingest and feel better. Rather, God's Word is the way in which we are invited to encounter the real 'person' of God.

To respect something is to understand that there is something there to see, that it is not all surface, that something lies beneath the surface, something that has the power to change the way we think or feel, something that may prove so profound a revelation as to change not only how we look at our lives but how we live them.

Joy comes when we catch the rhythms of His heart. Peace comes when we live in harmony with those rhythms.

As mysterious as it seems, our prayers have the power to live after us. Spanning years, sometimes centuries, even millennia. Reaching across time to take the broken pieces of a person's life and gently place them into what can only be described as a divine work.

When suffering shatters the carefully kept vase that is our lives, God stoops to pick up the pieces. But he doesn't put them back together as a restoration project patterned after our former selves. Instead, he sifts through the rubble and selects some of the shards as raw material for another project-a mosaic that tells the story of redemption.

If the word of God dwells within us, then God speaks to others, however inarticulately, through the language of our life.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength. Robert E. Lee

That forgiveness is the power to resist bitterness. And surrender, the power to resist selfishness.