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“To witness the perpetual marvel of the world’s coming into being is to sense the presence of the Giver in the given, to realize that the source of time is eternity, that the secret of being is the eternal within time. … All week long we are called upon to sanctify life through employing things of space. On the Sabbath it is given us to share in the holiness that is in the heart of time. … Eternity utters a day.”
—Abraham Heschel, The Sabbath
“For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: ‘I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.’”
—Isaiah 57:15
“Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art
Thou my best thought, by day or by night
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light”
“The Bible, all of it, is livable; it is the text for living our lives. It reveals a God-created, God-ordered, God-blessed world in which we find ourselves at home and whole.”
— Eugene H. Peterson, Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading
“Religion is sin when it makes God into something which we can handle.”
— John Webster
“We have become so accustomed to the idea of divine love and of God’s coming at Christmas that we no longer feel the shiver of fear that God’s coming should arouse in us. We are indifferent to the message, taking only the pleasant and agreeable out of it and forgetting the serious aspect, that the God of the world draws near to the people of our little earth and lays claim to us.”
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“There’s a wideness in God’s mercy I cannot find in my own,
And He keeps His fire burning, to melt this heart of stone;
Keeps me aching with a yearning, keeps me glad to have been caught,
In the reckless raging fury that they call the love of God.”
—Rich Mullins