Category: Meditation

“To become a disciple means a decisive and irrevocable turning to both God and neighbor. What follows from there is a journey which…never ends in this life, a journey of continually discovering new dimensions of loving God and neighbor.” ~ David Bosch (via Prodigal Kiwi(s) Blog Appropriate insight for a Monday morning where I do…

“Graciousness is a non-negotiable dimension of Christian faith. It goes to the very core of the gospel. It is what makes the gospel good news.” – Gracious Christianity, p. 17 I think I’m learning this afresh as I age. Perhaps in the process of growing older, I need to learn more like child again. I’m…

“Here is God’s leadership model: he chooses fools to live foolishly in order to reveal the economy of heaven, which reverses and inverts the wisdom of this world. He calls us to brokenness, not performance; to relationships, not commotion; to grace, not success. It is no wonder that this kind of leadership is neither spoken…

” I am so small, a speck of dust moving across the huge world. The world a speck of dust in the universe. Are you holding the universe? You hold onto my smallness. How do you grasp it, how does it not slip away? I know so little. You have brought me so far.” ~…

As I listen to Billy Graham’s thoughts here in Pilgrim’s Progress, it gives me a chance to think about mine now, and what would I say when i’m his age? Here’s stuff that leaped out for me: “… You can see more from a mountain, and from the perspective of years. Graham believes both the…

“The students at Yale “thought cogito ergo sum was what it was all about and Yale was encouraging them to think that, whereas I felt very deeply it’s amo ergo sum (I love, therefore I am).” —William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (via Journey with Jesus)

“How did the mother duck know The recipe for making her eggs? And how did my own mother work out The 900 ingredients for the milk I drank? How did the salmon give directions For finding the way home? Would I ever learn to swallow again After forty days of this stroke? Then suddenly the…

“BILL MOYERS: And so the– in your life, there has not really been then a deep conflict between faith and reason. SIR JOHN HOUGHTON: No, not a deep conflict. No. I’ve– I’ve recognized the potential for conflict. I’ve recognized those areas which are– which I can’t resolve. But then I also think, you know, one…

“Be careful to preserve your health. It is a trick of the devil, which he employs to deceive good souls, to incite them to do more than they are able, in order that they may no longer be able to do anything. “ ~ Vincent De Paul Interesting quote from one who has done so…

“True evangelism, based on the example of Jesus, does not suggest the “missionary zeal” of self-righteous proselytizers. It implies, on the contrary, the kind of all-embracing universality evident in Mother Teresa’s prayer: “May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.” Not just fellow nuns, Catholics, Calcuttans, Indians. The whole world….