8 Quotes by A.J. Swoboda

Trust is what God resurrects when our security dies.

Faith isn’t just Good Friday and Easter Sunday; faith is awkward Saturday too. So much is sitting in that tomb with the soon-to-be resurrected Lord. It’s so dark. So damp. So scary. The silence is deafening. But there is hope in there.

Freedom in America means being freed from any restraint. Freedom in Christianity is being restrained on the cross that one might be free. Jesus was trapped on a weighty cross and yet he was free. His executioners, however, were free from the cross but were trapped.

A Christian does not see a Sabbath as a period of time. Sabbath, for a Christian, is a way of life. All of life for a Christ wanderer is a Sabbath. All of life is one big period of rest – not rest from the day job or rest from responsibilities, but rest from striving. From saving ourselves. From all of that.

To keep a Sabbath is to give time and space on our calendar to the grace of God.

The only thing original about me is my sin, and even that I plagiarize most of the time.

The great irony of Sabbath-keeping is how hard it is for us to say no to people but how with such ease we say no to being at rest with God.

How does God deal with evil? He puts a ring on it.