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“The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of God came not from exegetes, theologians, and spiritual writers, but from sitting still in the presence of the living Word and beseeching Him to help me understand with my head and heart His written Word. Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of *knowing* Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited.”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

“Christianity is the only major religion to have at its central event the humiliation of its God.”
― Bruce L. Shelley, Church History in Plain Language

“The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism

“A truncated spirituality, intent mainly upon finding an inner connection to the self, does not truly represent the mind of Christ.”
― Edith M. Humphrey, Ecstasy and Intimacy: When the Holy Spirit Meets the Human Spirit