Suzie

“We must love God with our minds, allowing our intellect to inform our emotions, rather than the other way around.”
― Jen Wilkin, Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

“the ancient human question "Who am l?" leads inevitably to the equally important question "Whose am l?"-for there is no selfhood outside of relationship.”
― Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

“In a culture where busyness is a fetish and stillness is laziness, rest is sloth. But without rest, we miss the rest of God: the rest he invites us to enter more fully so that we might know him more deeply. “Be still, and know that I am God.” Some knowing is never pursued, only received. And for that, you need to be still. Sabbath is both a day and an attitude to nurture such stillness. It is both time on a calendar and a disposition of the heart. It is a day we enter, but just as much a way we see. Sabbath imparts the rest of God—actual physical, mental, spiritual rest, but also the rest of God— the things of God’s nature and presence we miss in our busyness.”
― Mark Buchanan, The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath

“Conflict reveals the true character of a leader.”
― Jim Van Yperen, Making Peace: A Guide to Overcoming Church Conflict