Exodus 33:12-14

Moses said to the LORD, “You have been telling me, ‘Lead these people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, ‘I know you by name and you have found favor with me.’ If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people.”
The LORD replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

Timothy Keller

At some level, your normal assumptions, your pride and your egotistical way of thinking, are blinding you to the truth. One prime example is worry. Naturally, if you love people, you're going to worry about them. But do you know where constant worry comes from? It's rooted in an arrogance that assumes, I know the way my life has to go, and God's not getting it right. Real humility means to relax. Real humility means to laugh at yourself. Real humility means to be self-critical. The cross brings that kind of humility into our lives.

R. Alan Cole

Whenever God acts, it must always be with sufficient ambiguity for us to need the interpretation of faith if we are to see the happening as an act of God. Christian faith is, in the last resort, an understanding by faith of every event as the activity of a God who is at once all love, all holiness, and all power. So, without the key of faith, which is the means of interpretation, even the news of the resurrection would be opaque. But faith is not subjective self-deception, for it does not create the fact which it interprets. Only God creates the fact or event, in this case, the resurrection of Jesus. Faith is an appropriation for oneself of the act of God, a grasping hold of that which is real, even if at present unseen.

Charles H. Spurgeon

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

J. David Muyskins

Clinging to attachments that have become dear to us deprives us of the freedom of loving and serving the Lord. Our attachments become idols that detract from our living in the grace of our Source and Sustainer. Fear, unresolved anger, selfish desires, false ambitions can keep us from God's desired fulfillment for us.

J. Campbell White

Most men are not satisfied with the permanent output of their lives. Nothing can wholly satisfy the life of Christ within His followers except the adoption of Christ’s purpose toward the world He came to redeem. Fame, pleasure and riches are but husks and ashes in contrast with the boundless and abiding joy of working with God for the fulfillment of His eternal plans. The men who are putting everything into Christ’s undertaking are getting out of life its sweetest and most priceless rewards.

Henri Nouwen

The Word of God is always coming into the world, though it is often met with indifference. Those who preach are called upon to remove these obstacles and lead folks to the true insights that eventually set them free.

If we who are privileged to announce God's word do not want to increase the resistance against the Good News, but to decrease it, we have to willing to lay ourselves down and make our own suffering and our own hope available to others, so that they too can find their own, often difficult way.

J. David Muyskins

In the quite of silent prayer I accept the gift of communion with the Holy One. I wait to receive this gift, which comes like a flower blossoming. I cannot force the flower to bloom any faster than it will. I can only express gratitude for the beauty that unfolds.

Tim Keller

If you seize that gift [of grace] and keep holding on to it, then Jesus won't draw you into fanaticism or moderation. You will be passionate to make Jesus your absolute goal and priority, to orbit around him; yet when you meet someone with a different set of priorities, a different faith, you won't assume they're inferior to you. You'll actually seek to serve them rather than oppress them.

Thomas Oden

You must risk telling your own story, not as an end in itself, but rather as a sharply focused lens through which the whole Christian story is refracted.

Jan de Volder

Above all it [the life of Father Damien de Veuster] showed something universal, something essential in Christianity: namely, that in love for the poorest, lived as self-giving until death, lies a road to salvation. Neither Islam nor Buddhism produces this kind of saint.

The Christian martyr contrasts sharply with the martyrs exhibited in various extremist religious movements today. The latter look with contempt on their own lives in order to destroy the lives of others and bring them down to the grave with them. The Christian martyr gives his own life in order to save the lives of others.

Richard J. Foster

Love is not communicated in the big event but in the small acts of kindness.

Thomas Merton

Not all men are called to be hermits, but all men need enough silence and solitude in their lives to enable the deep inner voice of their own true self to be heard at least occasionally.

Billy Graham

When we preach atonement, it is atonement planned by love, provided by love, given by love, finished by love, necessitated because of love. When we preach the resurrection of Christ, we are preaching the miracle of love. When we preach the return of Christ, we are preaching the fulfillment of love.