The Contemplative Pastor Quotes & Sayings

PAYING ATTENTION TO GOD We bless GOD, oh yes - we bless him now, we bless him always! PSALM 115:18, THE MESSAGE Prayer is the most thoroughly present act we have as humans, and the most energetic: it sockets the immediate past into the immediate future and makes a flexible, living joint of them. The Amen gathers what has just happened into the Maranatha of the about to happen and produces a Benediction. We pay attention to God and lead others to pay attention to God. It hardly matters that so many people would rather pay attention to their standards of living, or their self-image, or their zeal to make a mark in the world. The reality is God: worship or flee. THE CONTEMPLATIVE PASTOR — Eugene H. Peterson

There's nothing good about divorce. — Val Kilmer

Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own. — Richard Francis Burton

Learn from the past but don't forget to live for the present moment. This moment is your life. — Debasish Mridha

If you have a child, you're improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies. — Sarah Jessica Parker

It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is. — Eugene H. Peterson

At the last minute, I couldn't wear the Hitler mustache because Tiger Stripe ate it; and then I didn't want to take my kitty and risk his coughing up some big Nazi hairball on someone's front stoop. — Chuck Palahniuk

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea. — Catherine Helen Spence