10 Quotes by Marva J. Dawn

...we are to be lights in the world. It is God's business to light us, to set us on the lampstand, and to bring the people into the house. Our only duty is to shine forth with the gospel.

God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship also offers forgiveness, healing, transformation, motivation, and courage to work in the world for God's justice and peace - in short, salvation in its largest sense.

A great benefit of Sabbath keeping is that we learn to let God take care of us — not by becoming passive and lazy, but in the freedom of giving up our feeble attempts to be God in our own lives.

The goal of the Christian life is that for more and more seconds of each day what we think and do and say is to God’s glory, that every moment is worship of the true God instead of various idolatries of our making or of our culture’s.

We definitely do not conform to our culture if we choose not to be dominated by possessions or by the anxiety to acquire more of them, but decide instead to give away much of what we have and use what we have been given as good stewards who desire to enjoy the things of God for the purposes of God.

Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

Our negative ceasing to possess must be accompanied by a positive choosing to be generous.

To say “I am going to church” both reveals and promotes bad theology.

Joy born of deep suffering is nourished by moments of celebration... Celebration properly understood is the acceptance of life in an ever growing recognition that it is so precious.