"Mark the passages that go deep into my heart, that move me deeply, that make sense, that express something which is already within my experience."
Stephen Covey
"Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us."
Richard Rohr
"We don't fall in love with concepts or theological ideas (although some do try). Persons fall in love with other persons. 'And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.'"
Richard Rohr
"Divine Revelation is not something you measure or critique. It is not an ideology but a Presence you intuit and meet. It is more Someone than something."
Richard Rohr
"If the Gospel is not an answer to our world anymore, it's perhaps because the world is not asking the real or significant questions."
Pat Thomas
"Divine intervention seems to be intertwined with human choice, as does demonic intervention."
Pat DeWitt Thomas
"It is not only important to build on a firm foundation,
but also to remain True to the foundation you are
building on."
but also to remain True to the foundation you are
building on."
Julian of Norwich
"All shall be well,
and all shall be well,
and all manner of things shall be well."
and all shall be well,
and all manner of things shall be well."
Richard Rohr
"A mystic is one who has moved from mere belief systems or belonging systems to actual inner experience."
Henry David Thoreau
"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"
Richard Rohr
"You cannot really be present to the naked now except with some degree of non-dualistic, non-polarity seeing and thinking. Otherwise, you just write commentaries on everything, for or against."
Richard Rohr
"Divine revelation is not God disclosing ideas about God, but actually disclosing Himself. Scripture and religion itself then become not mere doctrines or moralisms for me, but lovemaking, an actual exchange of being and intimacy."
Pat DeWitt Thomas
"Like Martha we all tend to be so busy and so distracted trying to provide hospitality to God and therefore show how much we love Him. It was Mary who simply sat in His Presence and loved Him, and made a home for Him in her heart."
Albert Einstein
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
Peter Marshall
"Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for; because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything."
Rich Mullins
"If you want a religion that makes sense I suggest something other than Christianity. But if you want a religion that makes life, this is the one."
Don Miller
"Theology can become an idol, but it is more useful as guardrails on a road to the true God. Theology is very important, but it is not God, and knowing facts about God is not the same as knowing God."
"Do you think right theology is important? Absolutely, but I do not believe it has any agency to convert anymore than directions to the doctor's office has the power to heal."
"Do you think right theology is important? Absolutely, but I do not believe it has any agency to convert anymore than directions to the doctor's office has the power to heal."
Rich Mullins
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"I believe what I believe
It's what makes me what I am
I did not make it, no it is making me
It is the very truth of God and not
The invention of any man."
"I believe what I believe
It's what makes me what I am
I did not make it, no it is making me
It is the very truth of God and not
The invention of any man."
Anonymous
"Sometimes I would like to ask God why He allows poverty, suffering, and injustice when He could do something about it. But I'm afraid He would ask me the same question."
Father Cyprian Consiglio
"The contemplative or mystical experience of God is not something to be grasped at, but something you wait and make yourself available for, and then receive it as a gift."
Rich Mullins
" The issue is not about which church you go to, it is about following Jesus where he leads you."
Richard Rohr
"You never think yourself into a new way of living. You invariably live yourself into a new way of thinking."
Phil Gulley
"The Fisher Space Pen Company spent around a million dollars inventing a pen for NASA that could do what a nickel pencil did with ease; write upside down in zero gravity."
Thomas Aquinas
"Everything that I have written seems like straw to me compared to those things that I have seen and have been revealed to me."
Mother Teresa
"Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you."
Lao Tzu
"Those who really know don't speak too quickly. Those who speak too quickly don't really know."
Richard Rohr
"Divine freedom is the capacity to be fully who we already are, to develop our inherent and true nature in God, as much as possible-really wanting to do what we know we have to do. Only God can create that freedom inside of us."
Richard Rohr
"The true self IS a prayer. This is why Paul can say, "pray always" (Ephesians 6:18). We pray always whenever we live in conscious union with God. Then every action is a prayer no matter how secular, mundane, or ordinary it might appear. I would more admire someone cleaning the house in loving union than a priest saying Mass outside of union."
Richard Rohr
"Christianity is a lifestyle; a way of being in the world that is simple, non-violent, shared, inclusive, and loving."
Mother Teresa
"God is the friend of silence. Trees, flowers, grass grow in silence. See the stars, moon, and sun, how they move in silence."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than courageously and actively doing God's will.
Rachel Carson
"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."
Galileo
"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Kahlil Gibran
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
George Washington Carver
"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in."
John Burroughs
"To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life."
Osho
"Once you have started seeing the beauty of life,
ugliness starts disappearing.
If you start looking at life with joy,
sadness starts disappearing.
You cannot have heaven and hell together,
you can only have one.
It is your choice."
"Cultivate all that brings joy."
ugliness starts disappearing.
If you start looking at life with joy,
sadness starts disappearing.
You cannot have heaven and hell together,
you can only have one.
It is your choice."
"Cultivate all that brings joy."
St. Bernard
"You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters."
Corrie Ten Boom
"God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours, so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things...In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strength or our brains but simply because He has made us."
Richard Rohr
"Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you CAN change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change, is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change."
John Michael Talbot
"Religion is not God, but only a gift of God to lead us back to God. When we make a god of religion we ironically miss God while obsessing about His gifts."
Richard Rohr
"Anything done halfheartedly will bore you. People do not tire from overwork nearly as much as from halfheartedness. Wholeheartedness requires that a person be fully present. And people who are present are most ready to experience the Presence."
Teresa of Avila
" For my own part, I confess my lack of humility, but their argements have never seemed to me good enough to lead me to accept what they say."
(This was my matra while I was in seminary.)
(This was my matra while I was in seminary.)
Richard Rohr
"God is more a verb than a noun, more a process than a conclusion, more an experience than a dogma, more a personal relationship than an idea."
JRR Tolkien
"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be the blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king."
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be the blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king."
JRR Tolkien
"End? No the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The gray rain-curtain of this world rolls back and all turns to silver glass. And then you see it...white shores and the beyond. A far green country under a swift sunrise." Gandolf
Pat DeWitt-Thomas
"Fruitful lives come from well treated and well cultivated souls that are subject to God's will, have the interest and mind of Jesus, are filled with the Truth, energized by the Holy Spirit, interwoven through with love and mercy, and fully composted with obedience."
Madeleine L'Engle
"We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it."
A.W. Tozer
"Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there."
A.W. Tozer
"I want to live so fully in the Spirit that all my thoughts may be as sweet incense ascending to Thee and every act of my life may be an act of worship."
Augustine
"I was tossed by every wind, but you guided me as a helmsman steers a ship, by routes I did not know."
Augustine
"You have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you."
Sr. Maria Skobtsova
"There are two ways to live: you can walk on dry land with utter legitimacy and respectability, measuring, weighing, and planning ahead. Or you can walk on the waters, and then it becomes impossible to measure or plan ahead because the only thing necessary is to believe at every moment. An instant of doubt, and you start to sink."
Evelyn Underhill
"God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament, however unexpected its outward form may be."
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