Quotes to Share

Some thoughts,
passed on,
for the day;

Wendell Berry: “Perhaps the greatest disaster of human history is one that happened to, or within, religion: that is the conceptual division between the holy and the world, the excerpting of the Creator from creation.”
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To be with God is really to be involved with some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you. God is a means of liberation and not a means to control others.
- James Baldwin
Nobody Knows My Name
copied from Sojourners Verse and Voice


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from today's Spirituality and Practice post:

WHY NOT BE POLITE
Everyone
Is God speaking.
Why not be polite and
Listen to
Him?
— Hafiz quoted in The Gift translated by Daniel Ladinsky

To Practice This Thought: Listen for all the varieties of God's speech.
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And ...Wednesday's post from the Upper Room Reflections

GOD,
your mystery
is woven around me
like a shawl
that invites me to rest.
Transform and renew me.
Amen.

- Alive Now

From p. 60 of Alive Now, July/August 2006. Copyright © 2006