What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.
Hans Urs von BalthasarTags: inspirational philosophy christianity god spirituality catholicism christian-living gift
Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracted by it, wants to grasp it, burns its finger in the process, and thus learns fear and respect for the flame.
Wassily KandinskyTags: experience learning spirituality
And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anaïs NinTags: self-help spirituality
To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?
BonaventureTags: life inspirational knowledge christianity religion spirituality catholicism
Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a community, and in the sweatshops, defiled agribusiness fields, genetic mutation labs, ecological dead zones, the inhumanity is showing. Without genuine spiritual community, life becomes a struggle so lonely and grim that even Hillary Clinton has admitted "it takes a village".
David James DuncanTags: environment church spirituality community corporations clinton village
To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
John Ortberg Jr.Tags: love god spirituality sanctification
Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.
Richard RohrTags: god faith trust spirituality flow
Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious.
John Ortberg Jr.Tags: fear friendship doubt thinking humanity peace mind spirituality worry holy-spirit
God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
John Ortberg Jr.Tags: love freedom god faith spirituality coercion
The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God.
Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.
Tags: god faith joy jesus spirituality prayer presence
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