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“It may seem strange but doing the will of God is a different matter than just doing what God wants us to do. The two are so far removed, in fact, that we can be solidly in the will of God, and know that we are, without knowing God’s preference with regard to various details of our lives.”
― Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
― Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
“The climate of this prayer is, then, one of awareness, gratitude and a totally obedient love which seeks nothing but to please God.”
― Contemplative Prayer
― Contemplative Prayer
“Hence monastic prayer, especially meditation and contemplative prayer, is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him whom we have found, who loves us, who is near to us, who comes to us to draw us to himself.”
― Contemplative Prayer
― Contemplative Prayer
“As my friend Richard Rohr said, “If we don’t learn to transform the pain, we’ll transfer it.”
― All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir
― All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir
“Why is it,” comedian Lily Tomlin asks, “that when we speak to God we are said to be praying but when God speaks to us we are said to be schizophrenic?” Such a response from ourselves or others to someone’s claim to have heard from God is especially likely today because of the lack of specific teaching and pastoral guidance on such matters.”
― Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
― Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
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