I am currently planning Espirational blog posts for the month of December. Our theme will be Celebrating in the Midst of Darkness and I want to include you. If you have great ideas for celebrating during a global pandemic let me know. This is not limited to Christmas — articles with ideas for Hannukah, WinterContinue reading “Guest Bloggers Needed to Shine Their Light”
Category Archives: Thought for Today
To Know God is to be transformed
“To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.”— D. A. Carson
I can desire only one thing
“The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence, but the awareness that my that my existence itself is not in the center. Once I ‘know’ God, that is, once I experience God’s love as the love in which all my humanContinue reading “I can desire only one thing”
Silence will illuminate you in God
“Silence will illuminate you in God… and deliver you from phantoms of ignorance. Silence will unite you to God…. In the beginning we have to force ourselves to be silent. But then from our very silence is born something that draws us into deeper silence. May God give you an experience of this ‘something’ thatContinue reading “Silence will illuminate you in God”
The end of all learning
“The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.” John Milton
The ultimate goal of Christian experience
“To know God and to find one’s full satisfaction in that knowledge is the ultimate goal of Christian experience. The Lord’s greatest delight comes when His people discover the ultimate value lies in the knowledge of God. Nothing in the material world can complete with the delights that are present in His Person.” Max Anders
The absolute oneness of God
“I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone.” Mahatma Gandhi
The best way of knowing God
“I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.” Vincent Van Gogh
The essential feature and necessity of life
“The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.” Malcolm Muggeridge
The heart that knows God…
“The heart that knows God can find God anywhere.” Aiden Wilson Tozer
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