Spirituality isn't about being finished and perfect; spirituality is about trusting God in our unfinishedness. Mike Yaconelli More Quotes by Mike Yaconelli More Quotes From Mike Yaconelli When I was younger, I believed my inconsistency was due to my youth. I believed that age would teach me all I needed to know and that when I was older, I would have learned the lessons of life and discovered the secrets of true spirituality. I am older - a lot older - and the secrets are still secret from me. Mike Yaconelli i-am me age life We've lost touch with our souls. We've been nourishing our minds, our relational skills, our theological knowledge, our psychological well-being, our physiological health... but we've abandoned our souls. Mike Yaconelli well-being health lost knowledge Dullness is more than a religious issue, it is a cultural issue. Our entire culture has become dull. Dullness is the absence of the light of our souls. Look around. We have lost the sparkle in our eyes, the passion in our marriages, the meaning in our work, the joy of our faith. Mike Yaconelli eyes light faith work I think being negative is being positive. You can't improve without stating the problem. Mike Yaconelli think you positive negative I think that when you follow Christ, one of the things that happens when you start listening to His voice is that you really are alone. Mike Yaconelli alone think you voice I just want to be remembered as a person who loved God, who served others more than he served himself, who was trying to grow in maturity and stability. Mike Yaconelli loved grow maturity god I can remember the night I became a Christian. And man, this weight came off of me and all that kind of stuff. What I didn't realize was, that was just the beginning - of a huge journey. Mike Yaconelli me man journey night There have been times where I've said, 'Jesus, I don't believe in you anymore, get out of here. I don't know. I don't even trust you.' And it's like, okay. And he's still hanging on. Mike Yaconelli know you trust believe If I were to die today, I would be nervous about what people would say at my funeral. I would be happy if they said things like, 'He was a nice guy' or, 'He was occasionally decent' or, 'Mike wasn't as bad as a lot of people.' Mike Yaconelli be-happy happy today people I'm ready for a Christianity that 'ruins' my life, that captures my heart and makes me uncomfortable. I want to be filled with an astonishment which is so captivating that I am considered wild and unpredictable and... well... dangerous. Yes, I want to be 'dangerous' to a dull and boring religion. Mike Yaconelli i-am me heart life I think satire is most effective when you love the thing you're satirizing rather than... have a vendetta against it. Mike Yaconelli think you satire love Evangelicals always assume that humor and faith are contradictory. It's OK to smile, to be nice, but not frivolous. Mike Yaconelli smile nice humor faith I came from a tradition where souls were a theological reality, not a faith reality. Souls were for saving, not for communing. Souls were for converting and, once they were converted, they were to be left alone. Souls were too mystical, too subjective, too ambiguous, too risky, too... well, you know - New Age-ish. Mike Yaconelli alone you tradition faith The authority of a life for Christ always has greater influence than the authority of talking. A young person can possess all of the benefits of authority - influence, respect, and strength - just by following Jesus wherever he leads. Mike Yaconelli respect influence strength life
