Lovers Love to be Alone
'We are still prone to value or affirm a kind of heroic exhaustion as being what God wants. Even today you hear people preaching in this kind of way.
'We are still prone to value or affirm a kind of heroic exhaustion as being what God wants. Even today you hear people preaching in this kind of way.
I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture.
There are people who talk about God, and there are people who know God. ~ Richard Rohr Spiritual ambition does not wed the yearnings of a carnal soul.
Intimacy and busyness are rarely wed, they are unnatural partners. The following tale has often been repeated: .
Faith is not the result of striving, it is the result of surrender.
Ten naysayers reported of the promised land: 'There we saw the giants. ' (paraphrase Numbers 13:33) We cannot tell what loss and sorrow and trial are doing.
Around AD 95 on rugged volcanic terrain in the Greek Mediterranean a banished apostle John sat with his God. His island of exile was Patmos. He wrote Revelation.
Is Christianity stumbling, nay falling to senseless men? Has it become subject to those without spiritual reason? Is the contemporary Christian casual, or are they casualties? We Christians have: the richest of faiths,the storehouses…
What craziness has caught us, what malaise has fallen upon us, that our individual prayer as much as our praying together could fall for such a bold deception: that our words…
"For over a year now and for some time before this, God spoke to me very clearly about the stillness and silence. And the secret place.