126 quotes found
Writer · Canadian
Canadian writer
“I am blessed. I can bless.”
“Hurry always empties a soul.”
“Thanksgiving creates abundance.”
“Satan prowls but hes a lion on a leash”
“Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash”
“The joy of small that makes life large.”
“A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.”
“...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.”
“It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but the exact opposite: God is passing by. God is in the tremors. Dark is the holiest ground,...”
“Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this mom...”
“Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.”
“The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we...”
“How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my inner eye has God seeping up through all things, then can't I give thanks for anything? An...”
“Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.”
“Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?”
“Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.”
“The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is t...”
“At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by beco...”
“The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents ...”
“I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.”
“When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists.”
“He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. Its hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long ...”
“From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.”
“I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the be...”
“Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and m...”
“They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life.....”
