41 quotes found
“Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.”
“Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.”
“Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your...”
“The author points to the impact of what he called Dutch disease, where the discovery of found wealth from a particular commodity causes a culture to atrophy with respect to work ethic and broader d...”
“In the individual who is characterized by independence without corresponding relatedness, there will develop hostility toward those whom he believes to be the occasion of his isolation. In the indi...”
“The truly strong person is not the one who never needs help, but the one who can ask for it when he does”
“I will always aspire to contain my shit as best I can, but I am no longer interested in hiding my dependencies in an effort to appear superior to those who are more visibly undone or aching.”
“God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that others depend upon us in more respects than the payment of weekly wages; but t...”
“The secret to happiness is to never make it dependent on that which can be taken away”
“People may live as much retired from the world as they please but sooner or later before they are aware they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.”
“He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.”
“My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.”
“The wilderness was the testing ground—the deciding place. It was a place of God revealing himself in a whole new and deeper way. Would his people trust him completely, confident in his goodness, wi...”
“Do you find yourself in a dry place today? Don’t look back toward the land of your bondage, or even to the place where God miraculously saved you from your enemies. Those seasons are over and he is...”
“We try, when we wake, to lay the new day at God’s feet; before we have finished shaving, it becomes our day and God’s share in it is felt as a tribute which we must pay out of ‘our own’ pocket, a d...”
“I’m feeling very thin and vulnerable, in a good way.”
