Michelle Jimenez

“A yoke is a work instrument. Thus when Jesus offers a yoke he offers what we might think tired workers need least. They need a mattress or a vacation, not a yoke. I”
― John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

“Love, joy, and peace…are incompatible with hurry.” “The average iPhone user touches his or her phone 2,617 times a day.” (By way of contrast, the psalmist said, “I have set the LORD always before me” [Psalm 16v8, ESV]. What would my life be like if God touched my mind as frequently as I touch my phone?) Freedom perhaps never comes without great cost.”
― John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

“In His efforts to redeem us, God always makes the first move. Then man’s turn comes. He struggles to obey and live up to his calling, but he comes to realize his desperate weakness. In self-despair, he must learn to die to himself, with his willing cooperation and full consent. In the end, man longs for God, not victory. That’s when faith is ready to receive God’s promise. The Father will finish the work that man didn’t even understand at the start. God began the process, and He will end it, even if man doesn’t understand Him or His purposes at first.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness

“Solitude is the furnace of transformation,” says Henri Nouwen. “Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self . . . Solitude is the place of the great struggle and the great encounter—the struggle against the compulsions of the false self, and the encounter with the loving God who offers himself as the substance of the new self.”
― Tim Mackie, Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools: An Invitation to the Wonder and Mystery of Prayer