Great Quotes — Eight

Three really great quotes!

John wrote the book of Revelation to comfort believers who were looking persecution squarely in the face.  He also writes to us today, who are squarely looking at the death of Christendom.  Understanding his purpose in writing is not a matter of decoding or solving some complex mystery as much as it is a matter of simply listening to the Spirit.  – Michael Card, Joy in the Journey

While David knelt at the brook, the world was bounded on one side by an arrogant and bullying people of Philistia and on the other by the demoralized and anxious people of Israel…No one could have guessed that the young man picking stones out of the brook was doing the most significant work of the day…David kneeling, unhurried and calm, opened up another option:  God, God’s ways, God’s salvation.   — Eugene H. Peterson, God’s Message for Each Day, 11/4

We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs:  to Want, to Have, to Do.  Craving, clutching, and fussing on the material, political, social, emotional, intellectual — even on the religious plane, we are kept in perpetual unrest:  forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance except so far as they are transcended by and included in the fundamental verb, to Be:  and that Being, not wanting, having and doing, is the essence of life.         — Evelyn Underhill

~ by Juli Jarvis on November 7, 2009.