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“I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out.”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

tags: inadequacy, language, spirituality, weakness

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“We ought not to READ the scriptures, but listen to them, for our Beloved is present and speaks to us through them. (vs. it being like a love letter sent to us from afar).”
― Basil Pennington, Centering Prayer: Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form

tags: bible

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“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

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“The pilgrims continue to come. Only God knows what each one of us brings, and with what kind of heart. We come mystically to this cave. We know the mess we bring and the often distracted heart that brings it. But this is all we have--all we are. One stretches out his arms to receive.”
― M. Basil Pennington, Journey in a Holy Land: A Spiritual Journal

tags: pilgrimage

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“Centering Prayer is an opening, a response, a putting aside of all the debris that stands in the way of our being totally present to the present Lord, so that He can be present to us. It is a laying aside of thoughts, so that the heart can attend immediately to Him. All prayer is a response. The Lord first knocks, beckons, calls to us.”
― Basil Pennington, Centering Prayer: Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form

tags: centering-prayer

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