As I continue to ponder in my heart the wonderful things that God is showing me, I wanted to share a few quotes that have moved my soul lately.
From The Crucified by Kahlil Gibran:
"Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest."
"Thou art, on the Cross, more glorious and dignified than one thousand kings upon one thousand thrones in one thousand empires."
From Turning by Henry Drummond:
"When God speaks he speaks so loudly that all the voices of the world seem dumb. And yet when God speaks he speaks so softly that no one hears the whisper but yourself."
From Merchandising Truth by Meister Eckhart:
"Live as if you did not exist."
From The Divine Scandal by Emil Brunner:
"In the Bible it is not we who find a way to God; it is God who comes to us."
"What is impossible for us is what God wants - all love to him and to our fellow humans."
From To Know the Cross by Thomas Merton:
"We can deny ourselves rigourously for the wrong reason and end up by pleasing ourselves mightily with our self-denial."
"To believe in suffering is pride: but to suffer, believing in God, is humility."
The critter is awakening, so I will finish in another post tomorrow.
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