Stones

These are quotes and snippets borrowed from others. Like mossy stones in a garden, they don’t move but add aesthetic beauty and places to sit and meditate.

• Music is a kind of sustenance
  Regina Spektor 3/5/24 1m
• Reading mundane details leaves me empty and unpleasantly full
  Ken Shigematsu 1/5/24 1m
• Don't leave guests at another's mercy
  Priya Parker 4/4/24 1m
• Chill is a miserable hosting attitude
  Priya Parker 4/4/24 1m
• Hosts generously enforce their authority
  Priya Parker 4/4/24 1m
• Ichi go ichi e
  Priya Parker 4/4/24 1m
• Meet in groups of eight to twelve for lively discussion
  Priya Parker 4/4/24 1m
• Meetings should be organized around outcome
  Priya Parker 4/4/24 1m
• Who am i to gather in this way
  Priya Parker 4/4/24 1m
• We move to the kitchen to keep the buzz
  Priya Parker 4/4/24 1m
• Purpose sticks out its neck a little
  Priya Parker 26/3/24 1m
• Specificity is a crucial ingredient
  Priya Parker 26/3/24 1m
• The form shapes identity
  Priya Parker 26/3/24 1m
• We conflate category with purpose
  Priya Parker 26/3/24 1m
• God made February short so we do not die
  Katherine Paterson 12/1/24 1m
• We need to stop so we might create familiarity at all times
  Peter Scazzero 29/11/23 1m
• Discipleship models often protect against growing up emotionally
  Peter Scazzero 29/11/23 1m
• Emotional health and spiritual maturity are inseparable
  Peter Scazzero 29/11/23 1m
• Head east into the darkness
  Peter Scazzero 29/11/23 1m
• Jesus was not selfless
  Peter Scazzero 29/11/23 1m
• Space to explore my feelings
  Peter Scazzero 29/11/23 1m
• Defining emotional health and contemplative spirituality
  Peter Scazzero 29/11/23 2m
• Top ten symptoms of emotionally unhealthy spirituality
  Peter Scazzero 29/11/23 1m
• We underestimate the power of evil
  Peter Scazzero 29/11/23 1m
• When we create a counterfeit reality we exclude God from our lives
  Peter Scazzero 29/11/23 1m
• Conflict and trouble were central to the mission of Jesus
  Peter Scazzero 29/11/23 1m
• Steps to interactive gratitude
  E. James Wilder, Anna Kang, John Loppnow, Sungshim Loppnow 19/10/23 3m
• Doing right things can lead to wrong things when our relational circuits are off
  E. James Wilder, Anna Kang, John Loppnow, Sungshim Loppnow 10/10/23 1m
• Relational circuits checklist
  E. James Wilder, Anna Kang, John Loppnow, Sungshim Loppnow 10/10/23 1m
• Thought rhyming sequence
  E. James Wilder, Anna Kang, John Loppnow, Sungshim Loppnow 10/10/23 1m
• When we do not expect god to listen we treat him as though he is an idol
  E. James Wilder, Anna Kang, John Loppnow, Sungshim Loppnow 10/10/23 1m
• Without interaction we become hardened or indifferent
  E. James Wilder, Anna Kang, John Loppnow, Sungshim Loppnow 10/10/23 1m
• Memories of God's goodness give us a sense of being loved
  E. James Wilder, Anna Kang, John Loppnow, Sungshim Loppnow 10/10/23 1m
• Our thoughts can rhyme with our Heavenly Father's
  E. James Wilder, Anna Kang, John Loppnow, Sungshim Loppnow 10/10/23 1m
• Wickedness is more noticable than goodness
  Trenton Lee Stewart 14/8/23 3m
• All his biddings are joys
  C.S. Lewis 26/4/23 1m
• What hatred was made for
  C.S. Lewis 26/4/23 1m
• Go to the source
  David Perell 19/4/23 1m
• Conservative descriptions tend to domesticate the more offensive gifts
  Peyton Jones 20/3/23 1m
• The apostle sees wasted mission potential
  Peyton Jones 20/3/23 1m
• The apostles burden is kingdom expansion
  Peyton Jones 20/3/23 1m
• The responsibilities of an apostle
  Peyton Jones 9/3/23 1m
• Evil seems fair and feels foul
  J. R. R. Tolkien 20/1/23 1m
• His power is shown in the division of all who oppose him
  J. R. R. Tolkien 20/1/23 1m
• In darkness and loneliness they are strongest
  J. R. R. Tolkien 20/1/23 1m
• The east has developed spiritual science beyond the west
  Yang Jwing-Ming 20/1/23 1m
• We have fought the long defeat
  J. R. R. Tolkien 20/1/23 1m
• Heaven is where you love everyone there
  Kathleen Norris 20/1/23 1m
• Treason has ever been our greatest foe
  J. R. R. Tolkien 20/1/23 1m
• Conspiracies are products of the loss of curiosity and ability to cope with change
  Kathleen Norris 9/1/23 1m
• Questionnaire
  Wendell Berry 22/12/22 1m
• Fatherhood boils down to watching my own childhood
  Jay Perry 21/12/22 1m
• More rituals
  Jay Perry 21/12/22 1m
• There is a fear most parents share
  Jay Perry 21/12/22 1m
• To be a saint is to be myself
  Thomas Merton 12/12/22 1m
• Becoming is a secret known only to God
  Thomas Merton 12/12/22 1m
• The Risk of Birth
  Madeleine L'Engle 9/12/22 1m
• The perilous season is middle age
  Elizabeth Peabody 22/11/22 1m
• The Birth of Language
  Lucille Clifton 2/11/22 1m
• The forces of evil work from within and without
  Fleming Rutledge 31/10/22 1m
• Real life is an endurance test
  Fleming Rutledge 31/10/22 1m
• Suffering undertaken for a higher cause
  Fleming Rutledge 31/10/22 1m
• Great teaching helps a people to see a wider horizon
  Fleming Rutledge 31/10/22 1m
• The inconvenience of the obedient individual is an advantage for the body
  David Watson, Paul Watson 20/10/22 1m
• We want to see four or more generations of leaders
  David Watson, Paul Watson 20/10/22 1m
• True DMM methodology is about discipling people to obey Jesus
  David Watson, Paul Watson 20/10/22 1m
• Keep notes for longer than reasonable
  Matt Webb 13/10/22 1m
• Benefits of writing a doctoral thesis
  Umberto Eco 7/10/22 1m
• Criteria for a doctoral thesis
  Umberto Eco 7/10/22 1m
• Solitude is the place of conversion
  Henri Nouwen 3/10/22 1m
• Only in the context of grace can we face our sin
  Henri Nouwen 3/10/22 1m
• Solitude bears compassion
  Henri Nouwen 3/10/22 1m
• Solitude exposes our false selves
  Henri Nouwen 3/10/22 1m
• Solitude is the furnace of transformation
  Henri Nouwen 3/10/22 1m
• Dependence on worldly perception produces anger and greed
  Henri Nouwen 3/10/22 1m
• Contemplation is no escape from anguish
  Thomas Merton 6/9/22 1m
• Self consciousness is the curse of the city
  Annie Dillard 11/8/22 1m
• Hopefulness is adversarial
  Nick Cave 28/6/22 1m
• To become myself I must cease to be what I thought I wanted to be
  Thomas Merton 1/6/22 1m
• Confrontation with suffering does not lead to compassion
  Henri Nouwen 1/6/22 1m
• The great secret of the spiritual life is that you already know the little steps
  Henri Nouwen 1/6/22 1m
• Four reactions to a shattered bowl
  Shirley Jackson 12/5/22 1m
• In sketching I observed it
  Roger Ebert 7/4/22 1m
• Per Pacem Ad Lucem
  Adelaide Proctor 31/3/22 1m
• Second tier priorities are the most seductive
  Oliver Burkeman 28/3/22 1m
• Neglect the right things
  Oliver Burkeman 28/3/22 1m
• Embrace your limits to sap distraction
  Oliver Burkeman 28/3/22 1m
• Everything worth doing depends on cooperating with others
  Oliver Burkeman 28/3/22 1m
• It is the effort that counts
  Oliver Burkeman 28/3/22 1m
• My actual life will inevitably prove disappointing by comparision with the fantasy
  Oliver Burkeman 28/3/22 1m
• Any attempt to bring out ideas into reality must fall short
  Oliver Burkeman 28/3/22 1m
• Unix philosophy
  M. D. McIlroy, E. N. Pinson, B. A. Tague 16/3/22 1m
• The basic structure of a good story
  Donald Miller 8/3/22 1m
• The point of life is character transformation
  Donald Miller 8/3/22 1m
• Without an inciting incident they won't enter a story
  Donald Miller 8/3/22 1m
• Humans wish to escape loneliness
  Kazuo Ishiguro 7/3/22 1m
• What was special about her was in those who loved her
  Kazuo Ishiguro 7/3/22 1m
• The sun's special help did not come
  Kazuo Ishiguro 7/3/22 1m
• For the most part rabbis hailed from the ranks of ordinary folk
  Lois Tverberg, Ann Spangler 8/2/22 1m
• Lifes supreme achievement is to be a scholar of the scriptures
  Lois Tverberg, Ann Spangler 8/2/22 1m
• It is a deeply intimate way of knowing God to co-create
  Jessie Cruickshank 2/2/22 1m
• The way of trust is a movement into ambiguity
  Brennan Manning 1/2/22 1m
• Asking for help is refusing to give up
  Charlie Mackesy 1/2/22 0m
• Asking for help is the bravest thing
  Charlie Mackesy 1/2/22 0m
• Comparison is the biggest waste of time
  Charlie Mackesy 1/2/22 0m
• Dont measure your value by how youre treated
  Charlie Mackesy 1/2/22 0m
• Imagine how we would be if we were less afraid
  Charlie Mackesy 1/2/22 0m
• Prayer
  C.S. Lewis 1/2/22 1m
• Oblique Prayer
  Denise Levertov 1/2/22 1m
• What Christ Said
  George MacDonald 1/2/22 1m
• Any law that degrades human personality is unjust
  Martin Luther King Jr 18/1/22 1m
• Nonviolent direct action seeks to create a crisis that can no longer be ignored
  Martin Luther King Jr 18/1/22 1m
• We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality
  Martin Luther King Jr 18/1/22 1m
• The monastery is a school in which we learn from God how to be happy
  Thomas Merton 29/12/21 2m
• Jesus modeled taking the gospel to the people
  Peyton Jones 27/12/21 1m
• A strong team will mitigate nearly every disaster that can befall a planter
  Peyton Jones 27/12/21 1m
• Acts was written to trace the expansion of the kingdom
  Peyton Jones 27/12/21 1m
• Apostolic planters have a wildness that doesnt function in the domesticated church system
  Peyton Jones 27/12/21 1m
• Christ never commanded his disciples to plant churches
  Peyton Jones 27/12/21 1m
• Pauls first missionary journey was chalked up as mistakes
  Peyton Jones 27/12/21 1m
• Pauls genius was church planting networks
  Peyton Jones 27/12/21 1m
• Planters who embark with wisdom are afraid and unsure
  Peyton Jones 27/12/21 1m
• The new testament was written by practitioners
  Peyton Jones 27/12/21 1m
• The test of a church plant is how it fares once the planter departs
  Peyton Jones 27/12/21 1m
• The way to practice dependence on the spirit was to need him
  Peyton Jones 27/12/21 1m
• Train your team for your absence by taking them everywhere
  Peyton Jones 27/12/21 1m
• Wise planters learn everything they can about leadership
  Peyton Jones 27/12/21 1m
• A master has failed more times than a beginner has tried
  Peyton Jones 27/12/21 1m
• Planters sent by God are nearly impossible to stop
  Peyton Jones 27/12/21 1m
• Our vocation is not simply to be but to work together with God
  Thomas Merton 7/12/21 1m
• Every one of us is shadowed by a false self
  Thomas Merton 7/12/21 1m
• Humans are words meant to respond
  Thomas Merton 7/12/21 1m
• The rebellion of the saints is the love of God
  Thomas Merton 7/12/21 1m
• The more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer
  Thomas Merton 7/12/21 1m
• There is only one vocation
  Thomas Merton 7/12/21 1m
• God makes the works of his wisdom more beautiful through contrast
  Thomas Merton 7/12/21 1m
• If I am true to the thought of him I shall find him everywhere in myself
  Thomas Merton 7/12/21 1m
• The intellect is only theoretically independent of desire
  Thomas Merton 7/12/21 1m
• I had a lifecycle in a place
  Peyton Jones 7/12/21 1m
• Discipleship done biblically is always in community
  Alan Hirsch 2/12/21 1m
• How happy I was to know the word
  Ed Caesar 29/11/21 1m
• The father kept his promise
  Christopher Wright 23/11/21 1m
• These are the words he read
  Christopher Wright 23/11/21 1m
• Before I can listen to God in prayer I must fumble through the prayers of words
  Madeleine L'Engle 15/11/21 1m
• Being time is never wasted time
  Madeleine L'Engle 15/11/21 1m
• Caiaphas asked no whys
  Madeleine L'Engle 15/11/21 1m
• Few serious artists are able to live lives which are without interruption
  Madeleine L'Engle 15/11/21 2m
• In art we are helped to remember
  Madeleine L'Engle 15/11/21 1m
• Lack of trust is a wound as grievous as whatever caused it
  Madeleine L'Engle 15/11/21 1m
• I didn't understand it but I knew what it was about
  Madeleine L'Engle 15/11/21 1m
• The opposite of sin can only be faith and never virtue
  Madeleine L'Engle 15/11/21 1m
• Unless we are creators we are not fully alive
  Madeleine L'Engle 15/11/21 1m
• We are afraid of this kind of prayer
  Madeleine L'Engle 15/11/21 1m
• All art is cosmos
  Madeleine L'Engle 15/11/21 1m
• When the artist is truly the servant of the work the work is better than the artist
  Madeleine L'Engle 15/11/21 1m
• Anything Jesus did in his lifetime is available to us too
  Madeleine L'Engle 15/11/21 1m
• We have to be braver than we think we can be
  Madeleine L'Engle 15/11/21 1m
• The greatest moments of prayer come in the midst of fumbling
  Madeleine L'Engle 15/11/21 1m
• God creates the heavens and the earth
  1/1/01 5m
• Rahab preserves Israelite spies
  1/1/01 4m
• Hear obey and live
  1/1/01 2m
• Hebrews
  1/1/01 11m
• Stay joined to the true grapevine
  1/1/01 1m
• Abram sojourns in Egypt
  1/1/01 2m
• Apostles forbidden to teach in Jesus' name
  1/1/01 2m
• Humanity disregards God's wisdom for a lie
  1/1/01 4m
• Melchizedek blesses Abram
  1/1/01 1m
• Jesus heals a crippled man near the sheep gate
  1/1/01 6m