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Thomas Merton
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Genesis 22:1-14, Exodus 3:1-12 , Isaiah 6:1-8, John 12:24-26, Romans 6:3-11, Psalm 46:10
To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we...
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Donald S. Whitney
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Genesis 50:15-21 , 1 Kings 19:1-18, Daniel 3:13-30 , Mark 4:35-41 , 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 , Psalm 46:1-3
I have read that each of us experiences a relatively significant crisis on an average of once every six months or so.
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Herman Melville
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Exodus 14:14, 1 Kings 19:11-12, Habakkuk 2:20, Psalm 46:10, Mark 1:35
All profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence. . . . Silence is the general consecration of the universe.
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Etty Hillesum
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1 Kings 19:11-13 , Ecclesiastes 5:1-2 , Isaiah 30:15 , Luke 10:38-42, Matthew 6:6, Psalm 46:10
But it’s not so simple, that sort of “quiet hour”. It has to be learned. A lot of unimportant inner litter and bits and pieces have to be swept out first. Even a small head can be piled high inside wi...
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Richard Cecil
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Psalm 46:1, Philippians 4:13, Psalm 23:4, 1 Peter 1:6-7, James 1:2-3, Hebrews 11:1, Romans 8:28
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf, unbelief s...
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Kenneth Grahame
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Jeremiah 17:8, Psalm 1:3, Ezekiel 47:9, Isaiah 43:19, Genesis 2:10, John 7:38, Psalm 46:4
“He thought his happiness was complete when, as he meandered aimlessly along, suddenly he stood by the edge of a full-fed river. Never in his life had he seen a river before—this sleek, sinuous, full-...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Genesis 50:20, Job 42:5-6 , Ecclesiastes 12:13, Luke 10:41-42, Philippians 4:6-7, Psalm 46:10
I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity. On the near side of complexity is simplistic; on the far...
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Frederick Buechner
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- Advent
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Psalm 46:10, Isaiah 9:2, Luke 1:78-79, John 1:5
In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is far off in the deeps of it somewhere a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to lis...
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Studdert Kennedy
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James 1:2-4, 1 Corinthians 15:57, Psalm 46:1, Isaiah 40:29-31, Romans 8:37, Psalm 73:26
It is not finished, Lord, There is not one thing done, There is no battle of my life That I have really won. And now I come to tell thee How I fought to fail, My human, all too human, tale Of weakness...
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Flannery O'Connor
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Psalm 46:10, John 20:29, Psalm 23:4, Proverbs 3:5-6, Isaiah 50:10, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Hebrews 11:1
People...think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross...You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don’t expect faith to clea...
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Rebekah Lyons
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Exodus 3:1-12 , 1 Kings 19:1-18 , Isaiah 6:1-8, Luke 10:38-42, John 15:4-5 , Psalm 46:10
We cannot prioritize our doing before being, our assignment before healing, our service before freedom.
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Nancy Ortberg
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- Faith
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Isaiah 43:2, Hebrews 12:11, Psalm 46:1, 2 Timothy 1:7-8, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Romans 5:3-5, 1 Peter 1:6-7
Someone once said that faith is not a personal possession until you have suffered. That person understood that the very nature of faith requires the grit and courage to be in the dark so you can event...
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F.B. Meyer
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Ephesians 6:18, Romans 12:12, Luke 22:41-42, Psalm 37:7, Philippians 4:6-7, Isaiah 40:31, Psalm 46:10
Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer means not always talking to Him, but waiting before Him till the dust settles and the st...
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Brother Lawrence
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Jeremiah 31:33, Deuteronomy 30:11-14 , Ezekiel 36:26-27, Luke 17:20-21 , 1 Corinthians 3:16, Psalm 46:5
He is within us; seek him not elsewhere.
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Mike Tyson
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Genesis 37:23-28 , Exodus 14:10-14, Job 1:13-22, Matthew 8:23-27, Acts 16:22-34, Psalm 46:1-3
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
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Hannah More
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- Attacks
- Unsettled
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Revelation 3:1, Matthew 23:37, James 1:14-15, 2 Timothy 2:17, Psalm 46:1
Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.
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Ruth Haley Barton
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Exodus 14:13-14, Isaiah 30:15, 1 Kings 19:11-13, Psalm 46:10, Matthew 11:28-30, Luke 10:38-42
Another reason we are so tired is that we are always working hard to figure things out rather than learning how to cease striving, how to be with what is true in God’s presence and let God be God in t...
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V. Raymond Edman
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- Faith
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Romans 8:28, Psalm 46:1-2, 2 Corinthians 4:17-18, Matthew 17:20, James 1:6
Faith is dead to doubts— dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities, knows nothing but success. Faith lifts its hand up through the threatening clouds, lays hold of Him who has all power in hea...
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Corrie Ten Boom
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Psalm 46:10, Hebrews 13:8, Philippians 4:6-7, Romans 8:28, Psalm 37:5
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
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Bill McKibben
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- Advent
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Psalm 46:10, Isaiah 30:15, Isaiah 40:3-5, Mark 1:2-3
Advent: the time to listen for footsteps – you can’t hear footsteps when you’re running yourself.
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A. W. Tozer
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Exodus 3:11-14, Isaiah 6:5-8 , 1 Kings 19:11-13 , John 15:4-5 , Luke 10:38-42 , Psalm 46:10
Historically the West has tended to throw its chief emphasis upon doing and the East upon being. . . . Were human nature perfect there would be no discrepancy between being and doing. The unfallen man...
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Julia Cameron
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Exodus 20:3 , 1 Kings 18:21, Proverbs 4:25-27, Luke 10:41-42, Hebrews 12:1, Psalm 46:10
Clutter is the enemy of clarity.
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Tod E. Bolsinger
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Daniel 1:8, Genesis 37:39–50, Exodus 2:4, 14–17, Matthew 4:1–11, 2 Corinthians 11:23–29, Psalm 46:
Resilience is not something that can be mustered in a moment of “rising to the occasion.” It is formed over a long period before the crisis of testing so that it can continue the transformation during...
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Karl Barth
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Philippians 4:19, Psalm 46:1-2, Romans 5:6-8, Isaiah 41:10, Hebrews 4:16, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Matthew 14:13-21
Total need requires total help
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Source Unknown
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Hebrews 11:1, Psalm 46:10, Isaiah 40:31, Romans 8:24-25, Psalm 27:13-14, 2 Corinthians 5:7
I believe in the sun though it is late in rising. I believe in love though it is absent. I believe in God though He is silent.
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Evagrius Ponticus
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1 Kings 19:11-12, Exodus 3:1-6 , Isaiah 30:15, Matthew 14:23 , Luke 5:16, Psalm 46:10
A monk is a man who is separated from all and who is in harmony with all.

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