Quotes by Mike Mason
Mike Mason (b. 1952) — Christlicher Schriftsteller und Autor · evangelikal · Kanada
Mike Mason (* 1952) ist ein kanadischer christlicher Schriftsteller und Theologe, der seit den 1980er-Jahren geistliche und meditative Literatur im evangelikalen Raum verfasst. Bekanntheit erlangte er vor allem durch Werke wie „The Mystery of Marriage“ und „The Gospel According to Job“, in denen er menschliche Beziehungen als geistliches Geheimnis sowie die theologische Auseinandersetzung mit Leid und Glaubensprüfungen thematisiert. Für Bibelleser bieten seine Schriften kontemplative Reflexionen über Hingabe, Gnade und Gottes Treue in Lebenskrisen.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Love, Relationships & Family, Ethical Questions, Wisdom & Understanding, Growth & Character, Grace & Redemption, Doubt & Hard Questions, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit
Quotes by Mike Mason
And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.
Mike Mason
As long as the self is consumed in the struggle to make itself lovely, it cannot love. First it must come to the end of its own resources, for the power to love derives purely and solely from the knowledge that one is already loved in return.
Mike Mason
Love is more than an exercise for the world to come: it is the world to come. It is everything we will be allowed to bring into the Kingdom of God.
Mike Mason
Real love is always fated. It has been arranged before time. It is the most meticulously prepared of coincidences. And fate, of course, is simply a secular term for the will of God, and coincidence for His grace.
Mike Mason
What is such a believer, whose very life depends upon the daily bread of the living Word of God, supposed to do when God is silent?
Mike Mason
The taking of vows is an act of faith. If people were faithful by nature, vows would not be necessary; their yes would be yes and their no would be no. But it is because people are not inherently faithful nor honest nor loving that they must stand up and declare they will be.
Mike Mason
Marriage offers us the deepest insight into the heart and soul of another being that we will ever have.
Mike Mason
Marriage can most simply be defined as meditating on God's love in the form of another person.
Mike Mason
A wedding was not only the occasion for Jesus' first miracle; after creation itself, it was also God's first miracle.
Mike Mason
Love coaxes and even hood-winks us into the making of a decision so radical that if left to our own devices we would never have entertained it for a moment.
Mike Mason
Of course, it is almost always the case that the couple has much more in common than they may suppose. But marriage seems to specialize, at times, in radically de-emphasizing the similarities between the partners and wildly exaggerating the points of difference.
Mike Mason
There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love.
Mike Mason
Theology, it turns out, is Satan's favorite game.
Mike Mason
But since nobody pays us to be happy, regularly we call in sick.
Mike Mason
The direction of joy isn't always up. Often to be joyful we must go down - down through the noise of racing thoughts, down through swirling chaos of circumstances, down through the deceptive appearances of life, down into the still waters and green pastures of the heart's core.
Mike Mason
Every shot was thrown with bad intentions." [8] This has often also been quoted as, "Every punch was thrown with bad intentions.
Mike Mason
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Sources: mikemasonbooks.com, crisismagazine.com, christianrefuge.org, audible.com
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