Quotes of the Week

Suffering is necessary for all of us. You will be purified by dying to your own desires and will. Let yourself die. You have excellent opportunities for this to happen. Don't waste them.
---Francis Fenelon


...the unconditional love of the Father, the indescribable grace of the Son, and the infinite patience of the Spirit are all, at this precise moment, alive in the center of your soul...
---Larry Crabb, Soul Care


Letting go is like releasing a tight spring at the core of yourself,
one you've spent your whole life winding and maintaining.
When you let go, you grow still and silent.
You learn to sit among the cornstalks and wait with God.
---Sue Monk Kidd


The secret to a healthy soul is not the discontinuance of hard work but the regularity of a pause.
---Byron Paulus


When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible person...and crushes him. And it is in the crushing that character emerges to be used for his greater glory.
---Chuck Swindoll


God never makes you suffer unnecessarily. He intends for your suffering to heal and purify you. The hand of God hurts you as little as it can. The yoke that God gives is easy to bear IF you accept it without struggling to escape.
---Francis Fenelon

1 comment:

  1. Printed Crabb & Monk to take with me as I drive to Waitomo this weekend.
    Thank you for enriching my soul.

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