Hannah Sorenson’s Reviews > Secure in the Everlasting Arms > Status Update

^The vow creates the couple, not the couple the vow.^

^A holiday is a holy day, meant to be hallowed—meant also to hallow the rest of life. Alexander Schmemann says that to the man of the past, “a feast was not merely a ‘break’ in an otherwise meaningless and hard life of work, but a justification of that work, its fruit, its—so to speak—transformation into joy and therefore into freedom.^

^Any who long for holiness must learn that that quality cannot be merely “bestowed” on us. Holiness is a lifetime process which requires suffering.^

^I wish I knew the author:

Help me to live this day quietly, easily;
To lean upon Thy great strength trustfully, restfully;
To meet others peacefully, joyously;
To face tomorrow confidently, courageously.^

^But I always remember the donkey—he was not proud. He knew that the palms and hosannas were not for him. They were for Jesus! So when I’m given compliments I make a little bouquet of them at the end of the day, and I give my bouquet to Jesus.^

^Thanksgiving brings contentment.
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Discontent dried up the soul.^

^The world is full of noise. As Wordsworth said, “Late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.” Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness, solitude?^

^It is always possible to do the will of God. In every place and time it is within our power to acquiesce in the will of God.^

^He [George MacDonald] writes, “Questions imply answers. If God has put the question in my heart, then He must hold the answer in His. I will seek them from Him. I will wait, but not until I have knocked. I will be patient, but not until I have asked. I will seek until I find. He has something for me. My prayers shall go up unto the God of my life” (Unspoken Sermons, First series, “The Higher Faith”)^

^But in the meantime, the world must be shown. There has to be living proof that some men and some women today actually love God and will do exactly what He says.^