Michael Kenning

“Speaking honestly and with the benefit of hindsight, I realize that at that point in my life, I was overworking and hopelessly under-spiritual. That wasn’t my intention—in fact, I was very earnest in what I was doing and in what I believed. But it was all busyness, frantic activity. I hadn’t learned how to be with God, how to breath in His new life.”
― Andy Freeman, Punk Monk: New Monasticism and the Ancient Art of Breathing

“The goal of the spiritual life is to become the most perfect worshippers of God that we can possibly be, in this life and throughout all eternity.”
― Marshall Davis, The Practice of the Presence of God In Modern English

“Augustine of Hippo: “In affliction, then, we do not know what it is right to pray for. Because affliction is difficult, troublesome and against the grain for us, weak as we are, we do what every human would do. We pray that it may be taken away from us. However, if he does not take it away, we must not imagine that he has forgotten us. In this way, power shines forth more perfectly in weakness.”
― Shane Claiborne, Common Prayer Pocket Edition: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals

“This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: “Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,” says the LORD Almighty.”
― International Version, NIV Bible