Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Quote of the Day

“There is a deep and very old voice in [us] that whispers that God can’t be trusted with anything so important as [our] life. That fear is the root of sin. It moves [us] to believe that life is only what [we] make it. Gripped by that anxiety, [we] fear that [we] will not get the respect[we] want or the accomplishments and possessions [we] think [we] deserve unless [we] grab as much as [we] can and feverishly protect it.” [Leslie Vernick, How to Act Right When Your Spouse Acts Wrong (WaterBrook Press, 2001), p. 90. This is a quote from David L. Miller, “I Am Enough for You,” Lutheran Woman Today 12, no.8 (October 1999): 7]

2 comments:

Valerie (Kyriosity) said...

Excellent quote. Were the original pronouns first person singular, or second person?

Reminds me of another quote I heard once in a radio sermon, but never caught the source: "All sin is a denial of the goodness of God."

Mikel L. Lawyer said...

I don't know. The brackets were in the book I got it from.