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Skye Jethani is an American author, speaker, and the managing editor of Leadership journal, a magazine and online resource published by Christianity Today International.

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“We do not desire too much, but too little.”
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“Christ's true people are branded with love.”
“The spiritual life must find its origin in silence.”
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“Ironically, it is often our zeal to protect our faith that leads to its loss.”
“History has shown syncretism to the culture is a chronic ailment of the church.”
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“We must learn to exist in a consumer empire but not forfeit our souls at its altar.”
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“The "trials of ordinary existence" are the divine curricula for spiritual maturity.”
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“We are more than our base desires, and our lives are not sustained by gratifying them.”
“We've been conditioned to avoid silence at all costs lest we be confronted with our own inner chaos.”
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“Our imaginations can throw off the shackles of consumerism if we start to feel the infinite once again.”
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“Jesus is offering us a holiday at the sea, but we must be willing to abandon our mud pies in the slums.”
“Whether by trials of circumstance or by disciplines of choice, we cannot escape our calling to suffer with Christ.”
“Disciplines teach us to overcome the temptation to gratify our immediate desires so that we may attain a higher one.”
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“In a culture that insists on making God small, we can counteract the trend by focusing our imaginations on what is big.”
“What might we learn about God and ourselves if our Bible study group gathered outside to stare at the stars in silence?”
“Consumerism has created a culture that values style over substance, image over reality, and perception over performance.”
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“The alternative to prefabricated-experience spirituality is what has been practiced by Christians for centuries: prayer.”
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“Commodification has led most people to view God as a device to be used rather than an all-powerful Creator to be revered.”
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“It is recognizing God's eternality that liberates our minds from their consumer inclination to reduce him to a commodity.”
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“Job learned the wisdom of silence before God, but it appears many Christians have abandoned this value in our wordy world.”
“We have a certainty about God and his ways that leads us to replace the mystery of faith with manageable spiritual formulas.”
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“How might our perception of God be changed if we turned off the radio station for a few minutes and walked in a thunderstorm?”
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“When we expect transformation to occur through external experiences, we are opting for an inferior model of spiritual formation.”
“We have all swallowed the cultural punch that believes institutions are both the means and the end of God's mission in the world.”
“Our longing to pass through the gates of eternity will not be satisfied by any external experience, but by the dwelling of God within.”
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Skye Jethani on Existence of God

“Divine agnosticism, the sort I'm advocating, affirms the existence of God but then acknowledges our human inability to fully grasp his infinite nature.”
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Skye Jethani on Ambiguity

“The abundance of our definitive words about God shows that we don't view him as a great mystery anymore, but as a sterile calculation without ambiguity or obscurity.”
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About Skye Jethani

Skye Jethani is an American author, speaker, and the managing editor of Leadership journal, a magazine and online resource published by Christianity Today International.