Eller Quotes & Sayings

Life turns on small choices.
A last-minute decision to take a shortcut over a snowy pass.
A shrugging dismissal of the odd-looking man in the long coat standing off to one side.
A decision to postpone a physical exam till a less busy time.
A word spoken with the best intentions.
Looking back, after the lives are destroyed, the blood spilt, the families shattered, and even the courses of nations changed forever, the mistakes that started the doomsday clock ticking down often seem minor, even innocent-even virtuous. So easy to make.
David Eller would give anything-no, everything-to go back and undo those mistakes. But life does not give us that chance. Like everyone else, he has no choice but to dangle from the hand of that clock, trying in vain to pull them backward as they tick inexorably toward zero. — William Carmichael

Walking with Jesus moves us out of the external and to the eternal — Suzanne Eller

Giving him our plans is giving him ourselves. — Suzanne Eller

Instead, I whispered, 'But if you say so. — Suzanne Eller

When I refuse to go deeper, my airliners in the shallow. Suzie Eller author Come with Me. Discovering the beauty of following where he leads — Suzie Eller

If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary. — David Eller

Truth is our first and greatest weapon against spiritual abuse. — Suzanne Eller

Nothing here on earth is guaranteed," Melissa says, "except for one thing: Jesus is with us always. When I began to understand who He is, my doubts began to disappear. He is sufficient; He's enough. — Suzanne Eller

stop expending great amounts of energy and your heart on things you cannot change, so that you can put that same energy into those things that you can. — Suzanne Eller

Lord Jesus! I can't pursue You more than I do right now with three little kids and this wretched disease! I pray. I read. I journal. I spend time with You. But when I get up from this place, my life seems no different. I still battle the same fears and insecurities. What am I missing, Lord? Where's the victory?" I waited. Then He spoke to me: I get that you love Me. But you don't seem to understand that I love you. So from now on - until I tell you differently - every time you're about to say, "I love You, Lord," I want you to turn it around and say, "You love me, Lord." Say it now. Shocked and surprised by this revelation, I whispered under my breath, "You love me, Lord." He whispered to me again, Say it again. "You love me, Lord. — Suzanne Eller

More importantly, I didn't know then that one day I would genuinely be free. That freedom came out of a thousand small steps of obedience, most of which I took during the waiting or limbo time. The more I learned to lean into Him on a daily basis and simply live out my faith in the everyday elements, the more I was prepared for the bigger steps when they arrived. Not only that, I was given the gift of living my life fully in the present, rather than being fixated and frustrated over some distant time or hope. In the crossroads called limbo, you do arrive at mile markers. You become more mature. More healed. Less surprised by or resistant to or unprepared for the good things God is giving you in the ordinary. Your challenge is to begin to embrace the waiting times as part of the overall journey. Limbo is a key part of the healing process! As you are faithful daily, He is working in you powerfully, and it all counts. Every single moment! — Suzanne Eller

Whisper 'yes' where 'no' wants to take root. — Suzanne Eller

The effort to discover an authentic self, to strip away layers of alienation and culturally imposed identity and find a soul in a clear, unimpeded communion with the sacred is consonant with spiritual quests throughout the ages. Spiritual feminists, no less than medieval mystics, are searching in the ways made available to them through their culture to separate themselves from everything in their hearts and minds that puts them at odds with the divine plan (and therefore with their own best interests), and to find a true harmony between themselves and the universe. — Cynthia Eller

You are beautiful, not because of what you have to give, but because of who you are. — Suzanne Eller

You leave the opinion of those who say, "She's not who I would have picked," to decide that if Jesus chooses you, that's sufficient. — Suzanne Eller

Following Jesus isn't a charmed life; it's a changed life. — Suzanne Eller

I don't know what your "boat" is, but he plunks right in the center of it. — Suzanne Eller

One does not have to prove a negative. One should assume a negative. — David Eller

Faith isn't a position of favor
It is a posture of servanthood — Suzanne Eller

It's a reminder that it's not my offerings that delight God, but my joyful acceptance of His love that brings Him pleasure (see Hos. 6:6). — Suzanne Eller

Regardless of what is going on outside, the Word produces stability inside. — Suzanne Eller

He steered their worried thoughts away from what they couldn't do or hadn't done and toward Himself, offering peace in exchange for their anxiety. I got you, buddy. I got you. — Suzanne Eller

In Mark 10:51-52, we read of a blind man named Bartimaeus who heard a crowd approach. When Bartimaeus realized who was within reach, he wouldn't be silenced. He began to call out the name of Jesus. "What do you want me to do for you?" Jesus asked him. The blind man said, "Rabbi, I want to see." Jesus stopped everything to open the eyes of this man, and his life was so changed by that encounter that he followed Christ alongside the road. Are you crying out to God today? — Suzanne Eller

Religion is not so bad, unless you believe it. — David Eller

Prayer changes things, but it ultimately changes the one who prays. — Suzanne Eller

In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, 'I don't know,' but the religionist says, 'I believe.' — David Eller

In Him we live (exist). In Him we breathe (take in life). In Him we have our being (our identity). The more we live in Him - not just going to church, but uniting with God in all aspects of life - the more we start to accept and look for the reality of His presence in the everyday. We see it in us. We see it in the way we interact with others. It is part of the way we think, and it guides the choices we make. — Suzanne Eller

Both freethought and anthropology are symptoms of the same underlying condition - the relative condition, the condition of difference. — Jack David Eller

Happiness comes not by passive waiting, but by active participation. — Suzanne Eller

Where we go is not nearly as important as who we go with. — Suzanne Eller

God and His plan for you do not change in the crossroads. — Suzanne Eller

Forgiveness is not forgetting; it is simply denying your pain the right to control your life. Corallie Buchanan, Watch Out! Godly Women on the Loose — Suzanne Eller

We may never understand how far-reaching faith can be. — Suzanne Eller

It's less about the task and more about the question "God, is there something you want me to do? — Suzanne Eller

A foundation of healing is built on the promise that God will be your strength. He is in the midst of this healing process with you - right where you are. — Suzanne Eller

By 1950, he had come to view the pedestrian as a threshold or indicator species capable of foretelling things to come - if the rights of the pedestrian were threatened, it would be an early indicator that broader freedoms of thought and action were also at risk. — Jonathan Eller

Our heart mends as our inner self - the central or innermost part of our identity - is wrapped around the Light inside of us, rather than around the people who have harmed us. This one small step changes the way we see things. — Suzanne Eller

Guarding your heart is no different from buckling a beautiful child into an infant seat, or placing a seatbelt across your own chest before pulling out of your driveway. — Suzanne Eller

It is a neglected but essential fact that we cannot appreciate the relationship between religion and violence unless we grasp the nature and meaning of the two partners in this relationship. Yet our understandings both of religion and of violence are inadequate. Further, we usually consider too few offspring of their troubled marriage: when we think of "religious violence," we tend to think only of holy war and (especially since September 11) religious terrorism. However, those are not the only types of religious violence. — Jack David Eller

You are not alone. You don't have to earn God's love. You don't have to run anymore. — Suzanne Eller

Nothing can separate us from God's love. — Suzanne Eller

Renewal in your thinking leads you to a place of maturity where you consider how your thoughts influence you. — Suzanne Eller

Open your heart to the miracle of walking with Jesus. — Suzanne Eller

Going isn't where we go, but what happens as we do. — Suzanne Eller

Insularity is the foundation of ethnocentrism and intolerance; when you only know of those like yourself, it is easy to imagine that you are alone in the world or alone in being good and right in the world. Exposure to diversity, on the contrary, is the basis for relativism and tolerance; when you are forced to face and accept the Other as real, unavoidable, and ultimately valuable, you cannot help but see yourself and your 'truths' in a new - and trouble - way. — David Eller

That is a vulnerable act as you give God access to every area of your heart. You hold up the past; you trust Him with today; and you have hope for tomorrow. — Suzanne Eller

When I refuse to go deeper, my faith lingers in the shallow. — Suzanne Eller