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“Is this the very most important thing I should be doing with my time and resources right now?”
“no matter how much time we pray, there are hours in the day that we all spend with other people, and I think we could make a pretty strong case that it matters who those people are. I think in every life, one priority is finding one or more seasoned Christians with whom to spend some serious time.”
― The Book of Not So Common Prayer: A New Way to Pray, A New Way to Live
― The Book of Not So Common Prayer: A New Way to Pray, A New Way to Live
“When nothing on which to lean remains, When strongholds crumble to dust; When nothing is sure but that God still reigns, That is just the time to trust.”
― Streams in the Desert: 366 Daily Devotional Readings
― Streams in the Desert: 366 Daily Devotional Readings
“If we wait for everything around us to be OK before we open up our hearts to praise, we will wait forever. The secret in life is to make a place for joy and thanksgiving no matter what the circumstance.”
― The Book of Not So Common Prayer: A New Way to Pray, A New Way to Live
― The Book of Not So Common Prayer: A New Way to Pray, A New Way to Live
“God is Lord of all, or he is not Lord at all. Christianity is many things, but one thing it is not is a sideline, a nice hobby, a part-time occupation. We have two choices: in or out; holy or not holy. We must never pretend God sent his Son to die so that we might have life occasionally, so that we might flicker in and out. Abide, he says. In me.”
― The Book of Not So Common Prayer: A New Way to Pray, A New Way to Live
― The Book of Not So Common Prayer: A New Way to Pray, A New Way to Live
“we are nowhere near the heart of prayer until we understand ourselves as wretches—and wretched at that—those beings so lost that nothing short of the death of God could save us. If we are “not so bad really,” then grace is not amazing.”
― The Book of Not So Common Prayer: A New Way to Pray, A New Way to Live
― The Book of Not So Common Prayer: A New Way to Pray, A New Way to Live
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