Friday, December 03, 2004

thoughts on God

And I quote:

I had no explanation for Laura. I don’t think there is an explanation. My belief in Jesus did not seem rational or scientific, and yet there was nothing I could do to separate myself from this belief. I think Laura was looking for something rational, because she believed that all things that were true were rational. But that isn’t the case. Love, for example, is a true emotion, but it is not rational. What I mean is, people actually feel it. I have been in love, plenty of people have been in love, yet love cannot be proved scientifically. Neither can beauty. Light cannot be proved scientifically, and yet we all believe in light and by light see all things. There are plenty of things that are true that don’t make any sense. I think one of the problems Laura was having was that she wanted God to make sense. He doesn’t. He will make no more sense to me than I will make to an ant.

Donald Miller
Blue Like Jazz

2 Comments:

At 6:28 PM, Blogger allan said...

e-harmony,
you are reading a great book there. Keep reading it, it will resonate with your soul. Thanks for being your crazy self girl. Come sunday eve you'll be kickin it with the south african boys.

 
At 3:54 PM, Blogger Rick said...

miller has a way of writing things i want to say in the way i would say it if i could write like that. if that makes sense. his next one, searching for God knows what, is really good, too.

 

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