Stones

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

• The apostle sees wasted mission potential
  Peyton Jones 20/3/23 1m
• The apostles burden is kingdom expansion
  Peyton Jones 20/3/23 1m
• Conservative descriptions tend to domesticate the more offensive gifts
  Peyton Jones 20/3/23 1m
• The responsibilities of an apostle
  Peyton Jones 9/3/23 1m
• The east has developed spiritual science beyond the west
  Yang Jwing-Ming 20/1/23 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
• Treason has ever been our greatest foe
  J. R. R. Tolkien 20/1/23 1m
• Heaven is where you love everyone there
  Kathleen Norris 20/1/23 1m
• We have fought the long defeat
  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
• Becoming is a secret known only to god
  Thomas Merton 12/12/22 1m
• To be a saint is to be myself
  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
• Great teaching helps a people to see a wider horizon
  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
• The forces of evil work from within and without
  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
• True dmm methodology is about discipling people to obey jesus
  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
• 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
• Dependence on worldly perception produces anger and greed
  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 place of conversion
  Henri Nouwen 3/10/22 1m
• Solitude is the furnace of transformation
  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
• 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
• To become myself I must cease to be what I thought I wanted to be
  Thomas Merton 1/6/22 1m
• Four reactions to a shattered bowl
  Shirley Jackson 12/5/22 1m
• Per pacem ad lucem
  Adelaide Proctor 31/3/22 1m
• Any attempt to bring out ideas into reality must fall short
  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
• Neglect the right things
  Oliver Burkeman 28/3/22 1m
• Second tier priorities are the most seductive
  Oliver Burkeman 28/3/22 1m
• Unix philosophy
  M. D. McIlroy, E. N. Pinson, B. A. Tague 16/3/22 1m
• The point of life is character transformation
  Donald Miller 8/3/22 1m
• The basic structure of a good story
  Donald Miller 8/3/22 1m
• Without an inciting incident they wont enter a story
  Donald Miller 8/3/22 1m
• Humans wish to escape loneliness
  Kazuo Ishiguro 7/3/22 1m
• The suns special help did not come
  Kazuo Ishiguro 7/3/22 1m
• What was special about her was in those who loved her
  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
• What christ said
  George MacDonald 1/2/22 1m
• 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
• Asking for help is the bravest thing
  Charlie Mackesy 1/2/22 0m
• 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
• Planters sent by God are nearly impossible to stop
  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
• A master has failed more times than a beginner has tried
  Peyton Jones 27/12/21 1m
• Jesus modeled taking the gospel to the people
  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
• Christ never commanded his disciples to plant churches
  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
• I had a lifecycle in a place
  Peyton Jones 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
• Our vocation is not simply to be but to work together with god
  Thomas Merton 7/12/21 1m
• The intellect is only theoretically independent of desire
  Thomas Merton 7/12/21 1m
• The more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer
  Thomas Merton 7/12/21 1m
• The rebellion of the saints is the love of god
  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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• I didnt understand it but i knew what it was about
  Madeleine L'Engle 15/11/21 1m
• 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
• The greatest moments of prayer come in the midst of fumbling
  Madeleine L'Engle 15/11/21 1m
• Before I can listen to God in prayer I must fumble through the prayers of words
  Madeleine L'Engle 15/11/21 1m
• All art is cosmos
  Madeleine L'Engle 15/11/21 1m
• We are afraid of this kind of prayer
  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
• Unless we are creators we are not fully alive
  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
• Hear obey and live
  1/1/01 2m
• God creates the heavens and the earth
  1/1/01 5m
• Rahab preserves Israelite spies
  1/1/01 4m
• Jesus heals a crippled man near the sheep gate
  1/1/01 6m
• 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
• Hebrews
  1/1/01 11m