Quotes about Flow
A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.
- Melody Carlson
Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Grace is just the natural loving flow of things when we allow it, instead of resisting it. Sin is any cutting or limiting of that circuit.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Love is a paradox. It often involves making a clear decision, but at its heart, it is not a matter of mind or willpower but a flow of energy willingly allowed and exchanged, without requiring payment in return.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Practice is standing in the flow, whereas theory and analysis observe the flow from a position of separation.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events. This deeper discovery is largely what religious people mean by "finding their soul.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
All that each of us can do is to live in the now that is given. We cannot rush the process;
- Fr. Richard Rohr
More than anything else, the Spirit keeps us connected and safely inside an already existing flow, if we but allow it. We never "create" or earn the Spirit; we discover this inner abiding as we learn to draw upon our deepest inner life.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The Genesis story of the Judeo—Christian Tradition is really quite extraordinary. It says that we originate from free and overflowing love. This flow will be rediscovered and re-experienced by various imperfect people throughout the Jewish and Christian Scriptures. This sets us on a positive and hopeful foundation, which cannot be overstated.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.
- Stephen Covey
Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart.
- Charles Spurgeon
The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.
- Elisabeth Elliot