Divine. Quotes
Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.
What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people like Mother Teresa and MLK would have nothing to do.
Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin.
I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?
I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.
Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas.
Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.
If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.
But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.
The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
How can we expect wild animals to survive if we give them nowhere in the wild to live?
God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace.” Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of this.
The eye always fills in the imperfections.
Eternal Father, I offer You the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins and those of the whole world.
A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change.
But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.
You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?
What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?
Some people are desperate because they don't know how to ask for His grace.
There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers.
God is the ultimate judge of what is truly in our souls. But we are requiered to forgive everyone.
Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing.
But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.
You have an inner prosperity guide: your intuition. When you begin to pay attention to it, it will lead you to this truth - Abundance is your birthright.
It's time to launch yourself into that bigger life using your full capacities and with the light of our spirit shining brightly.
The way to create more joy in your life is by having an attitude of abundance.
The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall our time of joy in wretchedness.
Come on, shake off the covers of this sloth, for sitting softly cushioned, or tucked in bed, is no way to win fame.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery
Oh human creatures, born to soar aloft, Why fall ye thus before a little wind?
The Holy Spirit does not speak to a soul that is distracted and garrulous. He speaks by His quiet inspirations to a soul that is recollected, to a soul that knows how to keep silence.
If the choices you make are not quality, don't put them on the top shelf.
Your drawbacks is not just the evil you did but the good you refuse to do
More than just someone to lay down with, is a spirit to pray up with.
What he didn’t know was how to beg for her forgiveness, and at that moment, her forgiveness was what he craved the most…even more than he craved her blood.
How one lives during limited time on earth's school is perhaps how one may dwell in the space of eternity.
Until we get it right, we shall return to the earth-school time after time.
There are raw materials undeveloped burning inside you but need a platform to materialize and manifest.
Our search for safety and contentment is endless and inexhaustible precisely because of the intrinsic futility of relying on human abilities to provide resolution to our problems.
When you're way too real, fake people be like: "You're a trip. I want somebody with real game (lies).
A human who learns, and practices the art of love as does divinity, is no longer human.
When the word is heard consult the source, and beware the messenger.