Quotes about Immersion

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

The hard reality is that immersion works only when people are actually fluent in something.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

It's hard to get lost in a scene, to get into a character when everyone's standing around you on the set.

Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse, than to be interrupted in a story...

The more you immerse yourself in the story of God's light in this life, the more likely you are to see it again on the other side.

He sat leaning forward in the seat with his elbows on the empty seatback in front of him and his chin on his forearms and he watched the play with great intensity. He'd notion that there would be something in the story itself to tell him about the way the world was or was becoming but there was not. There was nothing in it at all.

Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.

If you're onstage thinking about what you're going to eat when you get offstage, it's time to finish.

Human initiative is not canceled by God redeeming us; it is heightened by immersion in the flow of God's life.

In particular, I had learned that intensity is crucial for any progress in spiritual perception and understanding. To dribble a few verses or chapters of scripture on oneself through the week, in church or out, will not reorder one's mind and spirit—just as one drop of water every five minutes will not get you a shower, no matter how long you keep it up. You need a lot of water at once and for a sufficiently long time. Similarly for the written Word.

I believe one reason why so many people do in fact fail to immerse themselves in the words of the New Testament, and neglect or even avoid them, is that the life they see there is so unlike what they know from their own experience.