Quotes
What God wants
What does it profit you to give God one thing if He asks of you another? Consider what it is God wants, and then do it. You will as a result better satisfy your heart than with that towards which you yourself are inclined. St John of the Cross
Please listen
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention....A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. Rachel Naomi Remen
Required
The devil requires from his followers neither fear nor love. Loyalty is all he demands. Ruth Nanda Anshen
Timing
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity. Albert Einstein
Calendars ...do little more than synchronize us with the rest of society... We cannot do without these devices, which in a manner of speaking help us pay for what we owe to Caesar, but there is no reason why we cannot keep one calendar for Caesar and another for ourselves. At best this subversive calendar should ignore the usual pattern of weeks and months, reflecting instead the homogenous and coherent flow of time, the natural similarity of one day to another....Leaving schedules and obligations to the conventional calendar, we should consecrate our own to a more internal dynamic: to essential outlays of vital energy – our growth, achievement, pleasure and love. Robert Grudin
Be attentive to time and how you spend it. Nothing is more precious. This is
evident when you recall that in one tiny moment heaven may by gained or lost.
God, the master of time, never gives the future. He gives only the present,
moment by moment. Anon
Intimacy needed
When we have met our Lord in the silent intimacy of our prayer, then we will also meet him... in the market and in the town square. But when we have not met him in the centre of our own hearts, we cannot expect to meet him in the busyness of our daily lives. Henri J M Nouwen
With us
As sure as God allows his children to enter the fiery furnace, He will be in the fiery furnace with them. Charles H Spurgeon
Bless
Lord, this day bless me – and make me a blessing. David Winter
So pray
If your problems are too small to pray for, they are also too small to worry about. Anon
Help
Crisis brings us face to face with our own inadequacy, and our own inadequacy in turn leads us to the inexhaustible sufficiency of God. This is the power of helplessness, a principle written into the fabric of life. Anon
Kick
If you could kick the person responsible for most of your troubles, you wouldn't be able to sit down for six months Anon
Home
When the shell you live in has taken on the savour of your love... then your house is a home. Scott Russell Sanders