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A review by lakasmoose
The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections On the Quest for Faith by Terryl L. Givens, Fiona Givens
3.0
There was some really great stuff in this book, but there was also a lot of stuff that was kinda confusing. I'm going to blame that on the authors' use of really big and unpronouncable words AND their love of long and wordy sentences :)
I just felt like what they were trying to convey didn't always... come through... so it was hard to follow their train of thought at times.
<3
'To be a witness... means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.'
- Cardinal Emmanuel Suhard
'Instead of explaining our suffering, God shares it.'
- Nicholas Wolterstorff
... the body of Christ needs its full complement of members - the devout, the wayward, the uncomfortable, the struggling.
God specifically... called weak vessels (prophets and apostles) so we wouldn't place our faith in their strength or power, but in [His].
'Where can you taste the joy of obeying, unless He bids you do something for which His bidding is the only reason?'
- C. S. Lewis
This. Right here...
'The gospel... causes men and women to reveal that which would have slept in their dispositions until they dropped into their graves. The plan by which the Lord leads this people makes them reveal their thoughts and intents, and brings out every trait of disposition lurking in their [beings].'
- Brigham Young
This perspective represents a fundamental reorientation in attitude toward life's incompleteness. The patterns of meaning only dimly perceived, the inspiration only partially (or negligibly) felt, may not be God's indifference after all - or our spiritual failing. It may be the most potent form of the question most worth posing: What will you do now?
That question can be daunting, discouraging... or it can be liberating.
'... She often felt herself - struggling against terrific odds to maintain her courage; to say: "But this is what I see; this is what I see," and so to clasp some... remnant of her vision... which a thousand faces did their best to pluck from her.'
- Virginia Woolf
I LOVE this...
'It is not like a child that I believe in Christ and profess faith in Him, but rather, my hosanna has come through the great crucible of doubt.'
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I just felt like what they were trying to convey didn't always... come through... so it was hard to follow their train of thought at times.
<3
'To be a witness... means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.'
- Cardinal Emmanuel Suhard
'Instead of explaining our suffering, God shares it.'
- Nicholas Wolterstorff
... the body of Christ needs its full complement of members - the devout, the wayward, the uncomfortable, the struggling.
God specifically... called weak vessels (prophets and apostles) so we wouldn't place our faith in their strength or power, but in [His].
'Where can you taste the joy of obeying, unless He bids you do something for which His bidding is the only reason?'
- C. S. Lewis
This. Right here...
'The gospel... causes men and women to reveal that which would have slept in their dispositions until they dropped into their graves. The plan by which the Lord leads this people makes them reveal their thoughts and intents, and brings out every trait of disposition lurking in their [beings].'
- Brigham Young
This perspective represents a fundamental reorientation in attitude toward life's incompleteness. The patterns of meaning only dimly perceived, the inspiration only partially (or negligibly) felt, may not be God's indifference after all - or our spiritual failing. It may be the most potent form of the question most worth posing: What will you do now?
That question can be daunting, discouraging... or it can be liberating.
'... She often felt herself - struggling against terrific odds to maintain her courage; to say: "But this is what I see; this is what I see," and so to clasp some... remnant of her vision... which a thousand faces did their best to pluck from her.'
- Virginia Woolf
I LOVE this...
'It is not like a child that I believe in Christ and profess faith in Him, but rather, my hosanna has come through the great crucible of doubt.'
- Fyodor Dostoevsky