Category: Speaking to the Soul

“Just what promises had I not been standing on?  It made me think of promises I’d learned in Sunday School …”

“Have you ever felt that someone was truly listening to you? How did it make you feel? I know for me, it feels holy.”

“Actually thinking of these things as gifts rather than obligations might help encourage us more in overcoming out natural circumspection in using these gifts to the glory of God, who gave us memory, reason, and skill, as Prayer C in the Book of Common Prayer so beautifully puts it. And so, perhaps we could ask God …”

“Love our neighbor. Love the stranger in our midst. Love the least among us.
We are reminded, again and again, of God’s enduring, steadfast love for us. 
As it turns out, it’s a beautiful story.”

“My hands – 
cling to the One 
who first reached out to me “

“‘Oh God’s tender dealings can never 
be erased from our remembering,
for God has printed them in our hearts. …'”

“There are times when life seems to be nothing but a sheer cliff with no way to get up except to free climb using our hands and toes to find crevices in the rock and slowly and carefully make our way from one toe- or hand-hold to another until we reach the top or fall backward to our detriment.”

“When once asked in an interview whether he believed the Bible was true, [William Temple’s] reply was, ‘I believe the Bible contains all things necessary to salvation…as well as a good bit that isn’t.'”

“Look back over that list of eight blessings from Matthew. Each of them refers to better angels of our nature.”

‘God is not nearly as afraid of our life in the wilderness as we are.  Because the wilderness carves a person. Changes her. Forces him to take account, to consider himself. To become yourself more fully.’