On Sacred Ground

"The hungry listen to learn. The satisfied listen to critique."

"Fear and arrogance are friends."

"Answer this question: Does the God who lavishly provides you with his own presence, his Holy Spirit, working things in your lives you could never do for yourselves, does he do these things because of your strenuous moral striving or because you trust him to do them in you?"

"and God, if you ask Him, because He IS a gentlemen and needs to be asked, will enter in and change things for the better"

"Create in me a clean [pure] heart [one of quality], oh God. And renew a steadfast spirit within me."

"Oh to grace how great a debtor daily I’m constrained to be. Let thy goodness like a fetter bind my wandering heart to Thee. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it. Prone to leave the God I love. Here’s my heart, Lord. Take & seal it. Seal it for Thy courts above."

"Up now, slight man! Flee for a little while thy occupations; hide thyself from thy disturbing thoughts. Cast aside now thy burdensome cares, and put away they toilsome business. Yield room for some little time to God, and rest for a little time in Him. Enter the inner chamber of thy mind; shut out all thoughts save that of God and such as can aid thee in seeking Him. Speak now, my whole heart! Speak now to God, saying, I seek Thy face; Thy face, Lord, will I seek."

"For it is God who works in you, to will and to act according to His good purpose. Do everything without complaining or arguing, that you may prove yourselves blameless and pure, children of God in a crooked and perverse generation in which you shine like stars in the universe."

"I know not the way He leads me, but well do i know my Guide. What have I to fear?"

"In the face of suffering, there is no doubt in my mind that God calls us to respond."