Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation (Transforming Resources)

by Ruth Haley Barton

The stirring of spiritual desire indicates that God’s Spirit is already at work within us, drawing us to himself. We love God because he first loved us. We long for God because he first longed for us. We reach for God because he first reached for us. Nothing in the spiritual life originates with us. It all originates with God.

How had I gotten this far in the spiritual life without anyone ever having told me that it was OK to stop talking and stop doing and just be in God’s presence?

having a “quiet heart” that is not distraught with internal regrets nor frenzied by external circumstances