We prefer God tamed (Fr. Greg Boyle)

   In spite of God’s magnitude, we have managed successfully to domesticate God.  Beg.  Roll over.  We prefer God tamed and ready to do OUR bidding.  We have trained God, if you will, to do God’s business oustide.  No doubt, though, God wants to be found in the mess inside.  We have settled for a partial God, as Richard Rohr puts it, when every minute of every moment we are asked to move beyond the mind we have and land increasingly on a renewed and expansive view of God.  We are human beings, so we endlessly create God in our image.  We can’t help ourselves.  But certainly we can catch ourselves.

--Fr. Greg Boyle, Barking to the Choir (p.14)

Image source:  Cover image, The Chronicles of Narnia, 

https://ten4word.wordpress.com/2014/08/07/we-serve-an-unexceptional-normal-god/  (This page also has a fascinating -- and related -- article.)