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“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

“We must approach the Scriptures with humility and patience, with our own agenda out of the way, and allow the Spirit to stir the deeper meaning for us. Otherwise we only hear what we already agree with or what we have decided to look for! Isn’t that rather obvious? As Paul will say, “We must teach not in the way philosophy is taught, but in the way the Spirit teaches us: We must teach spiritual things spiritually” (1 Corinthians 2:13). As Tobin Hart says, this mode of teaching is much more about transformation than information. That changes the entire focus and goal.”
― Richard Rohr, Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality

“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