Wonder

“You will never retain the wonder until you have an input of ideas that exceeds the output of words.” ~Ravi Zacharius

The Inordinate Desire of Knowledge

“Rest from inordinate desire of knowledge, for therein is found much distraction and deceit. Those who have knowledge desire to appear learned, and to be called wise. Many things there are to know which profiteth little or nothing to the soul. And foolish out of measure is he who attendeth upon other things rather than those which serve to his soul’s health. Many words satisfy not the soul, but a good life refresheth the mind, and a pure conscience giveth great confidence towards God.”

~Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

Humility

“A first approach to understanding humility is to see it as that total self-acceptance typical of untarnished humanity. Those who are humble experience no shame. They do not need lies and evasions to inflate their importance in the eyes of their associates or to buttress their self-esteem. They have overcome the tendency to regard others as competitors or rivals, and so they work with whatever they have, and waste no time envying those who possess different qualities. The humble are equally content with both the gifts and the limitations that come from their nature or their personal history. Humility brings with it a fundamental happiness that is able to cope with external difficulties and sorrows.” ~Michael Casey, Living in the Truth

Stability

“External monotony is an invitation to inner change, [it is] a climate in which hidden aspects of the personality become manifest. Whereas novelty and constant variety short-circuit the process of going deeper.” ~Michael Casey, A Guide to Living in the Truth

Truth in Jesus

“Prepare me for every part of my pilgrimage.
Uphold my steps by thy Word.
Let no iniquity dominate me.
Teach me that Christ cannot be the way if I am the end,
that he cannot be redeemer if I am my own saviour,
that there can be no true union with him while the creature has my heart,
that faith accepts him as redeemer and Lord or not at all.”

~The Valley of Vision, Truth in Jesus (ending excerpt)

The Power of Prayer to Change

“[Prayer] doesn’t change God; it changes me.” ~C.S. Lewis

they made me feel…

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~Maya Angelou

Meditation as Prayer

My practice had been, at least for ten years previously, as an habitual thing, to give myself to prayer, after having dressed myself in the morning. Now . . . the first thing I did, after having asked in a few words the Lord’s blessing upon His precious word, was, to begin to meditate on the word of God, searching, as it were, into every verse, to get blessing out of it. . . . The result I have found to be almost invariably this, that after a very few minutes my soul has been led to confession, or to thanksgiving, or to intercession, or to supplication; so that, though I did not, as it were, give myself to prayer, but to meditation, yet it turned almost immediately more or less into prayer. When thus I have been for awhile making confession, or intercession, or supplication, or have given thanks, I go on to the next words or verse, turning all, as I go on, into prayer for myself or others, as the Word may lead to it.

G E O R G E MU E L L E R
A Narrative of Some of the Lord’s Dealings with George Mueller

http://www.desiringgod.org/media/pdf/books_bwdd/bwdd_all.pdf

Thoughts on tomorrow

“The future is as bright as the promises of God.”  ~William Carey

Traveling to find a friend?

“Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.”
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – 65 AD)