Adele Ahlberg Calhoun Quotes & Sayings

We can get so busy doing urgent things and so preoccupied with what comes next that we don't experience now. Afraid of being late, we rush from the past to the future. The present moment becomes a crack between what we did and what we have yet to do. It is virtually lost to us. We don't get to our futures any faster if we hurry. And we certainly don't become better people in haste. More likely than not, the faster we go the less we become. — Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

When we are rested, we notice desires as well as lies buried in our souls. — Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

We are not soul freelancers, but beings created to dance in the arms of the Trinity. — Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

In the unfixables of our lives we are invited to keep company with Jesus and take a risk that God's intentions toward us are good. — Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

Transformation and healing always begin in a place of desire. There needs to be some deep inner willingness to take a risk on Jesus and begin again and again. — Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

we keep company with Jesus by making space for him through a spiritual discipline. Our part is to offer ourselves lovingly and obediently to God. God then works within us doing what he alone can do. Our desires don't obligate the holy One. God is free to come to us in spiritual disciplines as he wills, not as we demand. But unless we open ourselves to him through spiritual practices, we will miss his coming altogether. — Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

God inhabits our bodies, delighting in every inch of us. Every eccentricity and peculiarity is received. Every longing and self-destructive habit is known. God knows us through and through and still wants to make his home inside of us. The fact that the Holy Spirit wants to abide in us is one way we know how infinitely precious and beloved we are. We are God's own prized possessions. Prized possessions are something you take care of. — Adele Ahlberg Calhoun