“The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.”
― The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God
― The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God
“Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead and keeps desire alive.”
― The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God
― The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God
“… always making sure I was present when anything was going on. I feared that if I missed any opportunity, the magic would come while I was not there and I would miss it forever.”
― The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God
― The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God
“We describe a person without compassion as “heartless,” and we urge him or her to “have a heart.” Our deepest hurts we call “heartaches.” Jilted lovers are “brokenhearted.” Courageous soldiers are “bravehearted.” The truly evil are “black-hearted” and saints have “hearts of gold.” If we need to speak at the most intimate level, we ask for a “heart-to-heart” talk. “Lighthearted” is how we feel on vacation. And when we love someone as truly as we may, we love “with all our heart.” But when we lose our passion for life, when a deadness sets in which we cannot...”
― The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God
― The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God
“(Satan's) first goal, of course, is to make sure we never meet the Prince who is Jesus of Nazareth or experience a taste of the Great Ball, But once we have, Satan's second and lifelong purpose with each of us is to make sure we never know who we really are; indeed, to keep us living the life of a cellar maid rather than a princess. Even though we who are believers have tasted the Ball and the love of the Prince in beginning ways, the voices of the stepsisters continue to speak to us in tones varying from whispers to shouts, and like Cinderella, each of us has our own years as a "cellar maid" that the enemy can whisper to us about, causing us to wonder if this isn't who we really are after all.”
― The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God
― The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God
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