Michael Kenning

“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

“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

“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

“Peace is not just about the absence of conflict; it’s also about the presence of justice. Martin Luther King Jr. even distinguished between “the devil’s peace” and God’s true peace. A counterfeit peace exists when people are pacified or distracted or so beat up and tired of fighting that all seems calm. But true peace does not exist until there is justice, restoration, forgiveness. Peacemaking doesn’t mean passivity. It is the act of interrupting injustice without mirroring injustice, the act of disarming evil without destroying the evildoer, the act of finding a third way that is neither fight nor flight but the careful, arduous pursuit of reconciliation and justice. It is about a revolution of love that is big enough to set both the oppressed and the oppressors free.”
― Shane Claiborne, Common Prayer Pocket Edition: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals