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“When words are many, sin is not absent, / but he who holds his tongue is wise" (Proverbs 10:19).”
― Christian Timothy George, Sacred Travels: Recovering the Ancient Practice of Pilgrimage

“there is a secret to silence-active listening.”
― Christian Timothy George, Sacred Travels: Recovering the Ancient Practice of Pilgrimage

“A renewal movement is at work within our nation, a movement of reconciliation with God. In our nation’s short history there have been two great awakenings, and I believe the third is rising in the water. The water has come ashore, and soon it will splash across our desert land.”
― Christian George, Sex, Sushi, and Salvation: Thoughts on Intimacy, Community, and Eternity

“Wisdom does not always speak Latin.”
― Christian Timothy George, The Lost Sermons of C. H. Spurgeon Volume I: His Earliest Outlines and Sermons Between 1851 and 1854

“William Gladstone was not altogether wrong in calling Spurgeon the last of the Puritans,14 though his descriptor is historically problematic. Spurgeon’s theological convictions were forged not in the halls of Germany but in the fens of England. Puritanism had been baked into his boyhood ever since he first encountered the tomes in his grandfather’s attic in Stambourne. While other boys occupied themselves with playful adventures, Spurgeon enjoyed the writings of John Bunyan, Richard Baxter, Thomas Manton, and John Owen. Raised as an Independent, educated in an Anglican school, and converted in a Methodist chapel, Spurgeon was a unique amalgamation of nonconformist sentiment”
― Christian Timothy George, The Lost Sermons of C. H. Spurgeon Volume I: His Earliest Outlines and Sermons Between 1851 and 1854

“in our quest for spiritual discovery we found that God moves in many mysterious ways. He is active in other continents, and I quickly realized that the church is much bigger than I ever thought it could be.”
― Christian Timothy George, Sacred Travels: Recovering the Ancient Practice of Pilgrimage

“Pilgrimage is an ancient practice in need of modern discovery-a physical, emotional and spiritual journey that goes inward, upward and outward.
We live in an age that sees people drowning in questions, searching for answers and starved for purpose. Pilgrimage is a spiritual practice that reminds us of our sacred purpose-to grow closer to God. Whether we choose to believe it, we are all on a journey The trail winds and wiggles through this world, often obscured from view, but life's deepest questions are answered along its gravel.”
― Christian Timothy George, Sacred Travels: Recovering the Ancient Practice of Pilgrimage

“If twentieth-century literature failed Spurgeon anywhere, it failed to produce scholars interested in constructing three-dimensional portraits of the preacher, flaws and all.12 Warts can be as informative as dimples.”
― Christian Timothy George, The Lost Sermons of C. H. Spurgeon Volume I: His Earliest Outlines and Sermons Between 1851 and 1854