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

“If the word of God dwells within us, then God speaks to others, however inarticulately, through the language of our life.”
― Ken Gire, Windows of the Soul: Hearing God in the Everyday Moments of Your Life

“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

“If you have a choice between letting the doctor examine you right away, uncomfortable though it may be, and waiting until he or she can do a post-mortem on you after it’s too late, it’s wise to go for the first. If you open yourself, day by day and week by week, to the message of scripture, its grand sweep and its small details, and allow the faithful preaching of Jesus and his achievement to enter your consciousness and soak down into your imagination and heart, then the admittedly uncomfortable work of God’s word will be happening on a regular basis, showing you (as we say) where you really are, what’s going on deep inside. You may need help from someone else in this process. Just as the healing work of the early church didn’t mean that doctors became unnecessary, so the probing, searching, penetrating analysis of God’s word doesn’t mean that there isn’t still a job for psychotherapists and similar professionals. But nor do they make the task of the word unnecessary. To spend time, prayerfully and thoughtfully, with scripture and with Jesus, the written and living Word of God, is to know that gentle but powerful touch, like a very sharp and fine blade, producing surprising and perhaps alarming results.”
― Tom Wright, Hebrews for Everyone