126 quotes found
Writer · Canadian
Canadian writer
“Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.”
“I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.”
“I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.”
“But, someone, please give mewho is born again but still so much in need of being born anewgive me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?”
“Humbly let go. Let go of trying to do, let go of trying to control, let go of my own way, let go of my own fears. Let God blow His wind, His trials, oxygen for joy's fire. Leave the hand open and b...”
“Trust is the bridge from yesterday to tomorrow, built with planks of thanks.”
“Eucharisteo, remembering with thanks, this is the bread. We take the moments as bread and give thanks and the thanks itself becomes bread. The thanks itself nourishes. Thanks feeds our trust...Mann...”
“I glance back in the mirror to the concrete bridge, the one I've boldly driven straight across without second thought, and I see truth reflecting back at me: Every time fear freezes and worry writh...”
“When bridges seem to give way, we fall into Christ's safe arms, true bridge, and not into hopelessness. It is safe to trust! We can be too weak to go on because His strength is made perfect in utte...”
“To get where you want to go, the first question you always have to answer is Where am I? ... We only find out where we are when we find out where He is. We only find ourselves... when we find Him.”
“The answer to anxiety is always to exalt Christ.”
“Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isnt...”
“How to 'live' in a state of awe when life is mundane and ordinary?”
“Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love?”
“Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.”
“The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.”
“That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To t...”
“The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless theyve held their own peace?”
“Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering the converse does. The brave who focus and all things good and all things beautiful to give thanks for it and di...”
“With memories of gravestones, of combing fingers through tangled hair, I wonder too ... If the rent in the canvas of our life backdrop, the losses that puncture our world, and our own emptiness, mi...”
