Instead of defining success by the results we achieve, we should define it by the actions we take.
“when prayer is no longer its primary concern, and when its many activities are no longer seen and experienced as part of prayer itself, the community quickly degenerates into a club with a common cause but no common vocation.”
― You Are the Beloved: 365 Daily Readings and Meditations for Spiritual Living: A Devotional
― You Are the Beloved: 365 Daily Readings and Meditations for Spiritual Living: A Devotional
“Around the table, we know whether there is friendship and community or hatred and division. Precisely because the table is the place of intimacy for all the members of the household, it is also the place where the absence of that intimacy is most painfully revealed.”
― You Are the Beloved: 365 Daily Readings and Meditations for Spiritual Living: A Devotional
― You Are the Beloved: 365 Daily Readings and Meditations for Spiritual Living: A Devotional
“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
“With this access point, God becomes more a verb than a noun, more a process than a conclusion, more an experience than a dogma, more a personal relationship than an idea. There is Someone dancing with you and you no longer need to prove to anyone that you are right, nor are you afraid of making mistakes. Another word for that is faith.”
― Yes, and...: Daily Meditations
― Yes, and...: Daily Meditations
“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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