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“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
...live in the question.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God.”
― Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC

“as a runner.  We’ll go through each activity in detail after reviewing the outline:”
― Michael Thomas, Run Yourself Skinny: Lose Weight Fast Without Dieting!

“You can be saved without setting your heart to live in extravagance before His eyes. There are many people who know Jesus as Savior and will be in heaven, but they lived their lives without giving much further thought to Him.”
― Misty Edwards, What is the Point?: Discovering Life's Deeper Meaning and Purpose

“Nothing is more dangerous to the kingdom of darkness than a man or woman who has found the unceasing wellspring of heaven’s life.”
― Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place

“most of us learn to trust, not because we’re noble, brave, or godly, and certainly not because we have it together, but when we don’t have any other choice.”
― Chip Ingram, Finding God When You Need Him Most

“Christ did not say, “I am custom”; he said, “I am the Life”.”
― Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way

“This is what the Church is all about. It is a redemptive fellowship of forgiven sinners who are in the slow, difficult process of being transformed into saints by the grace of God.”
― Stanley S. Harakas, Philokalia: The Bible of Orthodox Spirituality

“Once they asked Abba Silouan, “What asceticism do you practice, Father, to receive this wisdom?” And he answered, “I never left a thought in my heart that might anger God.”
― Stanley S. Harakas, Philokalia: The Bible of Orthodox Spirituality

“Being an acorn is to have a taste for being an oak tree,” wrote Thomas Merton.”
― Stanley S. Harakas, Philokalia: The Bible of Orthodox Spirituality

“What should you pray about? Everything! Here’s a simple rule: If it’s worth worrying about, then it is worth praying about. If you prayed as much as you worry, you would have a whole lot less to worry about.”
― Rick Warren, The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life

“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of your life are made. Destiny is made known silently.1 —AGNES DEMILLE”
― Matt Sorger, Power for Life: Keys to a Life Marked by the Presence of God

“Don’t let your pain destroy you. Let it propel you!”
― Matt Sorger, Power for Life: Keys to a Life Marked by the Presence of God

“We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.”
― Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way

“Thomas Huxley wrote, “The rung of the ladder was not meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.”
― Stanley S. Harakas, Philokalia: The Bible of Orthodox Spirituality

“We are not masters of our fate, but neither are we victims of it. We are, indeed, co-creators and cooperators with God and His grace.”
― Stanley S. Harakas, Philokalia: The Bible of Orthodox Spirituality

“Evagrius, a Desert Father: May the sun, on rising, find you with a Bible in your hand.”
― Stanley S. Harakas, Philokalia: The Bible of Orthodox Spirituality

“Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day. You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.”
― John Ortberg, Soul Keeping: Caring For the Most Important Part of You

“Leading at a higher level is the process of achieving worthwhile results while acting with respect, care, and fairness for the well-being of all involved. It’s only when you realize that it’s not about you that you begin to lead at a higher level.”
― Kenneth H. Blanchard, The Heart of a Leader: Insights on the Art of Influence

“To learn from the past is good, but to live there is a waste. To plan for the future is good, but to live there is a waste. You are happiest and most productive in life when you are living in the present.”
― Kenneth H. Blanchard, The Heart of a Leader: Insights on the Art of Influence

“Trying is just a noisy way of not doing something.”
― Kenneth H. Blanchard, The Heart of a Leader: Insights on the Art of Influence

“Since our reasoning brain is a gift from God, there is undoubtedly a legitimate place for scholarly research into Biblical origins. But, while we are not to reject this research wholesale, we cannot as Orthodox accept it in its entirety. Always we need to keep in view that the Bible is not just a collection of historical documents, but it is the book of the Church, containing God's word. And so we do not read the Bible as isolated individuals, interpreting it solely by the light of our private understanding, or in terms of current theories about source, form or redaction criticism. We read it as members of the Church, in communion with all the other members throughout the ages. The final criterion for our interpretation of Scripture is the mind of the Church. And this means keeping constantly in view how the meaning of Scripture is explained and applied in Holy Tradition: that is to say, how the Bible is understood by the Fathers and the saints, and how it is used in liturgical worship.”
― Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way