we must open our minds and our hearts to the voice that resounds through the valleys and hills of our life saying: “Let me show you where I live among my people. My name is ‘God-with-you.’ I will wipe all the tears from your eyes; there
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“We’re not held back by what we don’t have, but by what we don’t use.”
― Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
― Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
“Your DNA is divine, and the divine indwelling is never earned by any behavior or any ritual, but only recognized and realized (see Romans 11: 6; Ephesians 2: 8–10) and fallen in love with.”
― Yes, and...: Daily Meditations
― Yes, and...: Daily Meditations
“When joy is a habit, love is a reflex.”
― Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
― Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
“Strangely, as much as I heard the word secular as a label on things that should be avoided by good Christians, I don’t ever remember hearing the word sacred as its opposite. Instead, I heard the words clean and safe to describe what was not deemed worldly. Clean and safe. How puny those words are. What a pitiful reduction of the grandeur of the created world and its inhabitants. What a sad commentary on the church’s understanding of the God of the universe.”
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“Jesus revealed how to bear the pain of the world instead of handing on the pain to those around you. When you stop resisting suffering, when you can really do something so foolish as to welcome the pain, it leads you into a broad and spacious place where you live out of the abundance of Divine Love. I can’t promise you pain will leave quickly or easily. To forgive is not the same as to forget.”
― Yes, and...: Daily Meditations
― Yes, and...: Daily Meditations
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