Summary of Gregory Boyle's Tattoos on the Heart

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 God can get tiny if we are not careful. We all have an image of God that becomes the touchstone, the controlling principle, to which we return when we stray.
#2 I was told that I would get Good Mike on the show, but instead, I was subjected to the insensitivity of Mike Wallace, a 60 Minutes film crew, and a parishioner who was there to interview me. In the end, Wallace turned to a gang member and asked him why he didn’t turn to the police. The boy just stared at him.
#3 To be able to marinate in the fullness of God, you must first choose to be intoxicated by it. To anchor yourself in this God is to choose to be intoxicated by the fullness of God.
#4 To the homies, firme means, could not be one bit better. Not only does God think we’re firme, it is God’s joy to have us marinate in that.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Christian Living
• Spiritual formation

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 18 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669386582
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Gregory Boyle's Tattoos on the Heart
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

God can get tiny if we are not careful. We all have an image of God that becomes the touchstone, the controlling principle, to which we return when we stray.

#2

I was told that I would get Good Mike on the show, but instead, I was subjected to the insensitivity of Mike Wallace, a 60 Minutes film crew, and a parishioner who was there to interview me. In the end, Wallace turned to a gang member and asked him why he didn’t turn to the police. The boy just stared at him.

#3

To be able to marinate in the fullness of God, you must first choose to be intoxicated by it. To anchor yourself in this God is to choose to be intoxicated by the fullness of God.

#4

To the homies, firme means, could not be one bit better. Not only does God think we’re firme, it is God’s joy to have us marinate in that.

#5

The Jesuits at Dolores Mission would celebrate the birthday of one of their brothers, and the people would throw a surprise party for him on the Saturday before. I would always protest, but they wouldn’t listen. They loved me, and it was their joy to love me.

#6

God’s heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure. God’s desire is to give us peace and assurance, but we must cooperate with God’s limitless magnanimity.

#7

I once helped a friend named Cesar who had just finished a four-year stint in prison. He had joined the local gang, and was now waiting for me to pick him up at his apartment. When I saw him, he seemed unchanged from when I first met him as a child: wanting the world to be safe from earthquakes.

#8

The way is not about restriction, but about funneling ourselves into a central place. We can choose to narrow our focus, or we can narrow our focus and still have a vastness in us.

#9

I have never been on good terms with Scrappy, and he has never visited me at my office. When he comes in to see me in 2004, he is not a large man, but there is no fat on his mid-size build. He calmly explains that he has never disrespectfully spoken about me before.

#10

Scrappy discovered, as Scripture has it, that where he is standing is holy ground. He found the narrow gate that leads to life. God did not tell him to shape up or ship out, but to discover himself in the center of vastness and right in the expansive heart of God.