Jeff

“There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva

“the intention of God is that we should each become the kind of person whom he can set free in his universe, empowered to do what we want to do. Just as we desire and intend this, so far as possible, for our children and others we love, so God desires and intends it for his children. But character, the inner directedness of the self, must develop to the point where that is possible.”
― Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: A Study of Spiritual Reality in Christian Thought

“We all change the world whether we intend to or not. And we always change the world for the better when we plant the seeds of kind thoughts and words.”
― Mary Davis, Every Day Spirit: A Daybook of Wisdom, Joy and Peace

“He does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.”
― Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: A Study of Spiritual Reality in Christian Thought