115 quotes found
“The eye is to light as the soul is to God.”
“Trust becomes the only road home, back to love.”
“Grace runs downhill and now all his time is being redeemed.”
“Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.”
“Where faith costs nothing, faith loses respect, even to those who possess it.”
“Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there.”
“So in a mans mind, he appraises, negotiates, defines, delineates, weighs the information, and that includes God. As you can see, this is a relationship of management, not trust. You dont trust thin...”
“At the same time, they find their mind-god has played a trick on them. For mind is a part of the very system it has closed around it, and being inside, there is no reason to think any statement mad...”
“The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of holding that of consequence.”
“Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.”
“When sex was something godlike, Lust was the profane curiosity that killed many a straying cat. Now, having removed mystery, Lust is less a long-standing, overpowering yearning, more a sudden cravi...”
“They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the opposite is true: If they prayed more, they would have more belief.”
“Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other, while at the same time, being utterly known by the other, thus utterly himself.”
“In Joy, to lose ones life is to gain it, and Joy never loses an opportunity to be lost in the other.”
“But here Id like to add to what the Tempters Manual suggests. Depression, at its finest, is not a Future that they cannot hopefully construct, nor a shamed Past that hounds them, but an agonizing P...”
“Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten.”
“They scold their own hearts but it actuates no real change, only deepens the wound. But they cant look away from it. Thus, by paralyzing their Present, we beat The Adversary on His home turf. And l...”
“Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.”
“When some one mortal yet eternal human merely being relying on precisely nothing but the audacious love of his Maker, calls on Him to part the Heavens, well, we are undone.”
“Thats where thinking started, where thinking stopped, where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed, nor even dreamed of changing her father. Her dreams now played variations...”
“True Prayer is the work of relationship, where He moves them from mere information about Him to a one-on-one experience with Him, so that now when they talk about knowing God, they mean more than, ...”
“When young, the humans are all Imagination because Memory is so much smaller a part of their experience, so little of them is grounded in it. As they grow older, however, Memory overtakes their Ima...”
“All this has been happening around them all the days of their lives though they couldnt see it, then one day, Prayer removes the veil and everything changes. Think of it this way: Picture a man whi...”
“They prefer a God of an altogether softer flavor. Nothing too extreme. Complaisance, not magnanimity. They do not think upon the God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God. They prefer to thi...”
