Curious Faith Quotes

“Curiosity will free you to live in the mystery of God's love.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“When we pretend to have all the answers, we're not telling the truth.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“God's love for us is not his transaction for our perfect actions. His love is the gift, our faith is the response.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“God cares more that we understand how he sees us than how we see him. God cares more that we are loved by him than we perfectly understand he is love itself.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“The most important thing about a person is what God thinks when he thinks about them.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“I think of doubt as a form of blindness. A person who cannot see the world around them doesn't deny it still exists.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“Knowing we are valuable to God means we will care for wounds as we discover them. It means we will submit to the whole healing process, even the painful parts that feel like antiseptic or physical therapy. It means we will not pretend hard things don't hurt or emotions aren't real or death doesn't sting. It means we will weep when we're sad, laugh when we feel joy, have silence when we don't have words, and shout when it's right. It means we will acknowledge our own grief and attend to it. It means each generation becomes a little more healed and whole as we go, until the whole world is reconciled to Christ in wholeness.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“...if I can grasp how valuable I am to God, then perhaps I can engage in the work of healing generational poverty, wounds, trauma, vocational brokenness, and more. If I stay with the question long enough to consider what it means to be loved by God and cared for - even if the love and care I have received from others pale in comparison - then perhaps I can stay with the healing he offers to those he loves.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“Only when we are free from condemnation is our endeavor to refrain from sinning rooted in the freedom Christ offers.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“In order for me to believe in God and trust him and walk with him, believing he is safe is of first order.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“...faith is progressive; it's fluid and it moves. It grows and shrinks and billows and bellows and believes and sometimes doubts. It is in motion. It is moving. It is acting even if we are standing still.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“God wants us to look at injustice because he wants us to see how he undoes it.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“...what is oppression but the hands of a human being manipulated by the enemy for injustice?”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“...all injustice is spiritual.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“When I'm asking the Lord, 'How long can this continue?' I'm asking him to relent. I'm asking him to make it stop. I'm asking him to get back in a place where I can see him moving, shaking, crumbling, dismantling, arising, healing, coming. I'm asking him to make it stop.

...I'm asking him to be mighty, to be faithful, to be kind, to be what I know his character to be.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“God asks questions too.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“A Christian who pretends not to sin or suffer or struggle and who always has the answers and seemingly only walks out their faith with beauty and poise lacks integrity.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“I don't need a God who just exists; I need a God who cares, who intervenes, who shows up, who makes right, who enacts justice, who extends mercy.

I need a God who delivers.

I need a God who is not just there but a God who is here.

I need a God who doesn't just give me what I want when I want it but who shows up in the middle spaces - who reminds me of his nearness, goodness, faithfulness, and presence. And if I don't sense those aspects of God, today I need to keep asking for it and not just some temporary relief of my most pressing desires.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“...heartsickness is a gateway to hard-heartedness.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“...too many days with empty hands can begin to harden one's heart.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“Kings are meant to rule, prophets are meant to speak, priests are meant to mediate. The essential quality of these three is to have the answers. But so much of the Old Testament is kings crying, priests failing, and prophets doubting. God is showing his people that there's a better prophet, priest, and king coming, one who weeps but with hope, one who stumbles but is on his way to the cross, one who doubts his calling but obeys his Father anyway.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“We're afraid he has plans for others, but not for us. That he has hopes for others, but not for us. That he has a future for others, but not for us. That he's with us but that he's turned his back on us.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“To despair is not to turn your back on God - it is to believe that God has turned his back on you.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“...we can't admit we're not God until we look up and see God - in all his glory, in all his otherworldliness, in all his holiness, his set-apartness.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“...a faith built upon our skills, gifts, charisma, or good deeds for God is a house of cards.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“We all wanted to be used by God, but none of us wanted to fold up the chairs afterward.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“A name is a profession and a confession. It is an acknowledgment that we were powerless over our family lineage.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“My honesty before him was all he wanted all along. He didn't want my blind trust or my white-knuckled attempts to clean myself up for him. He wanted me, all of me, all my history, all my brokenness, all my fears and anxieties and angers. He just wanted me to be completely honest about where I was going with this burden of brokenness.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“Our great and cosmic and inclusive sin is that we chose our own way over our Father's way.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith

“And if the bad news is that we are all unclean, the good news is that there is one gospel to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, Curious Faith