Spiritual Direction
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Spiritual Direction
Your path to friendship really begins with an absolute trust that God both knows what is best for you and is also working to bring the best into your life. If you do not hold that conviction firmly within your mind, you will forever question every opportunity you are given. You will take your walk down the path of cynicism and away from friendship.
Jonathan Jenkins • Becoming God's Friend: Understanding Your Growth from Servant to Friend
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
bell hooks • All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1)
Going deep requires disclosure. Transparency should be appropriate, equal, and gradual, and it should come after trust and confidentiality have been established, but at some point it has to come, or the relationship will remain shallow and ultimately un-fulfilling.
Lee Strobel • God's Outrageous Claims: Thirteen Discoveries That Can Transform Your Life (Strobel, Lee)
The true friend is the other who hopes you’ll answer the call, who’s willing to challenge you and upset you in order to get you to look at yourself and ask yourself: What am I doing? What do I love? Who am I? The true friend is the other who has the courage to impose a conviction, who paints a substantive picture of the good, who prods and prompts
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
I think this is one of the key things in parenting, and the difficulty of raising children in a very, very fast-moving culture: that, again, it’s the difficulty of creating a space where children can actually unfold and where they can be truly accompanied in their journey
John O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
Worship isn’t just something we do; it is where God does something to us. Worship is the heart of discipleship because it is the gymnasium in which God retrains our hearts.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
This book articulates a spirituality for culture-makers, showing (I hope) why discipleship needs to be centered in and fueled by our immersion in the body of Christ. Worship is the “imagination station” that incubates our loves and longings so that our cultural endeavors are indexed toward God and his kingdom. If you are passionate about seeking ju
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
If being a disciple is being a learner and follower of Jesus, then a lot hinges on what you think “learning” is. And what you think learning is hinges on what you think human beings are. In other words, your understanding of discipleship will reflect a set of working assumptions about the very nature of human beings, even if you’ve never asked your
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