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Sometimes when I open my Bible to read, a verse leaps off the page and I know God is speaking to me. Sometimes I read and nothing seems to be illuminated. Sometimes I pray and have the keen sense that He is listening to every word and will answer me. Sometimes when I pray, I have no awareness that He's anywhere around. Sometimes when I go to church or draw aside for some quiet reflection, I have the overwhelming sense that Jesus is right beside me. At other times in the exact same settings, I have no conscious awareness of His presence at all. And I know by each experience — as I read my Bible and pray and work and worship — that He is teaching me to live by FAITH, not by my feelings.

~ Anne Graham Lotz

Anne Graham Lotz Faith Prayerful Spiritual Discipline

When I walk in the forest just before the meal, while reciting the scriptural phrase that I meditate for that day, spiritual joy comes over me as if by appointment.

~ Adalbert De Vogüé

Adalbert De Vogüé Catholic Christianity Fasting Spiritual Discipline

In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.

~ Henri Nouwen

Henri Nouwen Christianity Community Spiritual Discipline Spiritual Life

God’s discipline has nothing to do with rejection but more to do with refinement.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

Gary Rohrmayer Discipline Discipline Quotes Leaders Leadership Leadership Development Spiritual Discipline Spiritual Growth

Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

~ Richard J. Foster

Richard J. Foster Father Prayer Spiritual Discipline

But should we accept this negative view of power? Is power all bad? Specifically, can Christians share in this devaluation of power and discipline as inherently evil? Can we who claim to be disciples - who are called and predestined to be conformed to the likeness of the Son (Rom. 8:29) - be opposed to discipline and formation as such? Can we who are called to be subject to the Lord of life really agree with the liberal Enlightenment notion of the autonomous self? Are we not above all called to subject ourselves to our Domine and conform to his image? Of course, we are called not to conform to the patterns of 'this world' (Rom. 12:2) or to our previous evil desires (1 Peter 1:14), but that is a call not to nonconformity as such but rather to an alternative conformity through a counterformation in Christ, a transformation and renewal directed toward conformity to his image. By appropriating the liberal Enlightenment notion of negative freedom and participating in its nonconformist resistance to discipline (and hence a resistance to the classical spiritual disciplines), Christians are in fact being conformed to the patterns of this world (contra Rom. 12:2).

~ James K.a. Smith

James K.a. Smith Christianity Church Discipline God Jesus Power Spiritual Discipline Spiritual Formation

Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

Henri J.m. Nouwen Gift Grace Gratitude Spiritual Discipline Thankfulness

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

~ Jack Kornfield

Jack Kornfield Discipline Force Of Will Purpose Spiritual Discipline Stopping The War Training Understanding

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

Augustine Of Hippo Confession Sin Spiritual Discipline

When I say ‘practice’ I don’t meanrepeating an act until you get it right. In this use, it means to instill regular discipline to accomplish a specific task, ritual without which we feel incomplete, or that our experience of each day is less.

~ S. Kelley Harrell

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