Please God … lead me to that kind of love. Until then, help me to know that You are enough.

Maybe the world is waiting for you to give yourself to it. Maybe it's only then that things can work themselves out.

Some spiritual leaders try to be more committed. What they need is to be more submitted.

Baptism is bowing before the Father and letting him do his work.

To give to God is to take from God's right hand and put that very thing back into God's left hand.

Dear God,' I said inside myself, 'when I came here, maybe I was partly running off from home for fun and freedom and adventure. But I have a notion that You had something else in mind in letting me come. Anyway if You can use me here in this Cove, well, here I am.

Because You have called me here not to wear a label by which I can recognize myself and place myself in some kind of a category. You do not want me to be thinking about what I am, but about what You are. Or rather, You do not even want me to be thinking about anything much: for You would raise me above the level of thought. And if I am always trying to figure out what I am and where I am and why I am, how will that work be done?

I don't even need to know precisely what I am doing, except that I am acting for the love of God.

We enter into possession of God when He invades all our faculties with His light and His infinite fire. We do not "possess" Him until He takes full possession of us.

God wants the world to see what God can do with his purchased possessions. So he prunes you.

Lord, I know You're the only one who can make my dreams come true." Mona forced herself to surrender the next words. "I give You this dream, and all others, right now into Your hands for You to handle however You see fit.

When God's in it ... it flows. When the flesh is in it ... it's forced.