Windows of the Soul Quotes

“Because what touches His heart is not how much we know, but how much we love. Not how pure we are, but how passionate. Maybe that is why, when Pharisees were fighting over theology, prostitutes were falling at the Savior’s feet and slipping into the kingdom of God on their tears.”
― Ken Gire, Windows of the Soul: Hearing God in the Everyday Moments of Your Life

“To respect something is to understand that there is something there to see, that it is not all surface, that something lies beneath the surface, something that has the power to change the way we think or feel, something that may prove so profound a revelation as to change not only how we look at our lives but how we live them.”
― Ken Gire, Windows of the Soul: Hearing God in the Everyday Moments of Your Life

“If the word of God dwells within us, then God speaks to others, however inarticulately, through the language of our life.”
― Ken Gire, Windows of the Soul: Hearing God in the Everyday Moments of Your Life

“If only we arrange our life,” said Rilke, “according to that principle which counsels us that we must always hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful. How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”
― Ken Gire, Windows of the Soul: Hearing God in the Everyday Moments of Your Life

“Help me, O God, To realize the role the wilderness plays
  in my continuing education. Thank You that even in the wilderness there are windows,
revealing what You want from me,
showing that You care,
and clarifying, when I look back,
what You were doing in my life. Thank You, God, for the wild and untamed theology
You have taught me in the wilderness,
and for the assurance that,
though You are not safe,
you are good …”
― Ken Gire, Windows of the Soul: Hearing God in the Everyday Moments of Your Life

“This longing that wells up in us, though, does not spring into existence on its own. “God is always previous,” is the way the theologian von Hügel put it. “You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you,” is the way Aslan put it, the lion in the Narnia Chronicles who called Edmund and three other children from England into the magical land of Narnia. The way the apostle John put it was, “We love because he first loved us.”
― Ken Gire, Windows of the Soul: Hearing God in the Everyday Moments of Your Life

“Someone once said that the spiritual significance of something is in inverse proportion to the publicity surrounding it. A publicized event, like a parade, is more spectacular than it is significant. And that is true even if the parade is a religious one. “When you give to the needy,” Jesus said, “do not announce it with trumpets as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”
― Ken Gire, Windows of the Soul: Hearing God in the Everyday Moments of Your Life