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The story, while quaint, gets at an important truth: too often we look for the Spirit in the extraordinary when God has promised to be present in the ordinary.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Abe calls God “the LORD who provides.”
Tara-Leigh Cobble • The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible
The friend who leaps ahead is one who’s glimpsed what you’re called to be and is willing to let you be uncomfortable as you wrestle with the call, who loves you enough to let you struggle for your soul but is standing by with a bandage and a map.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
God is continually looking for ordinary people such as John who are willing to let him use them to make a difference
Erik Rees • S.H.A.P.E.: Finding and Fulfilling Your Unique Purpose for Life
14 For a long time I have held my peace, I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor, I will gasp and pant. 15 I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbage; I will turn the rivers into islands, and dry up the pools.
C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
You might think of Augustine as offering a hitchhiker’s guide to the cosmos for wandering hearts.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
the intervening years, a religion of the powerful and the dominant, used sometimes as an instrument of oppression, must not tempt us into believing that it was thus in the mind and life of Jesus. “In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” Wherever his spirit appears, the oppressed gather fresh courage; for he announced the good news that
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