Nick

“People are always trying to build temples and churches for God. And what is God trying to do? He is trying to build us into a temple, a living temple, a temple of the Holy Spirit, as St. Paul says (1 Corinthians 3:16-17).”
― Richard Rohr, The Great Themes of Scripture: Old Testament

“The Spirit will lead us to places where we live out our trust in God by waiting, not acting.”
― Alan Fadling, An Unhurried Life: Following Jesus' Rhythms of Work and Rest

“In the decades before his ministry begins and in the forty wilderness days, Jesus is willing to wait, and his example calls us to cultivate that same posture before the Father.”
― Alan Fadling, An Unhurried Life: Following Jesus' Rhythms of Work and Rest

“Good poetry doesn’t try to define an experience as much as it tries to give you the experience itself, just as good liturgy should do. It tries to awaken your own seeing, hearing and knowing. It does not give you the conclusion as much as teach you a process whereby you can know for yourself. It does not “overexplain and destroy astonishment.” Jesus does the same, particularly with the parables, and even says so at both the beginning and end of his parabolic discourse (see Matthew 13:13, 51–52). That’s why the long standing language of religion was poetry, aphorism and sacred storytelling, never merely prose or linear doctrines.”
― Richard Rohr, Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality