Notes & Quotes
“There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.”
Catherine Booth
“We are starved for quiet, to hear the sound of sheer silence that is the presence of God Himself.”
Ruth Haley Barton
“There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God.”
Brother Lawrence
“The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.”
William McGill
“I am deeply convinced that the necessity of prayer, and to pray unceasingly, is not as much based on our desire for God as on God’s desire for us. It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.”
Henri Nouwen
“It is impossible to overstate how dangerous we can become as leaders if we are not routinely inviting God to search us, know us, and lead us in a new way.”
Ruth Haley Barton
Having the reality of God’s presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.
Oswald Chambers’
“Choosing God is becoming aware of God by an act of attention or thought and then letting go. It is inviting God into your moment and then turning that moment over to God. It is openness to divine presence and consent to God’s reign in your life.”
David Benner
Earth’s crammed with heaven,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And every common bush afire with God,
But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
Vivian Greene
Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.
David W. Augsburger
Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. … We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.
Henri Nouwen
“There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.”
Thomas Merton
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
C.S. Lewis
“Discernment in its fullness takes a practiced heart,
fine-tuned to hear the word of God
and the single-mindedness to follow that word in love.
It is truly a gift from God, but not one dropped from the skies fully formed.
It is a gift cultivated by a prayerful life and the search for self-knowledge.”
Ernest Larkin