Jared Brock · 352 pages
Rating: (385 votes)
“There is a season for everything under the sun—even when we can’t see the sun.”
“Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.”
“The next morning we experienced our very first “full English breakfast,” which consisted of tea, orange juice, cookies, oatmeal, granola, berries, bananas, croissants, grapes, pineapples, prunes, yogurt, five kinds of cold cereal, eggs, hash browns, back bacon, sausage, smoked salmon, tomatoes, mushrooms, beans, toast, butter, jam, jelly, and honey. I don’t know how the British do it.”
“The battle belongs to the Lord, and we already know that He wins the war.”
“Shalom is the medicine I’d prescribe for Jerusalem—a deep, God-breathed indwelling of peace and prosperity and blessing. An end to the unrest and a sense of wholeness is what the Holy City needs. It’s what the Middle East needs. It’s what I need.”
“Prayer is meant to happen everywhere. After all, Daniel prayed in the lion’s den. Jonah prayed in a fish’s stomach. Elijah prayed in the desert. And Jesus prayed on the cross.”
“The Kingdom of Heaven wants to rest in our hearts.”
“Work is easy when it’s full of meaning and shared with others.”
“Rest in the knowledge that God is both abundantly gracious and ridiculously generous.”
“Strength is gathered on the journey, not granted at the outset.”
“What if making peace with our warring hearts—peace within—is the first step to world peace?”
“I definitely felt out of place at first, not unlike being lactose intolerant in Wisconsin.”
“Thank God for a little holy disobedience.”
“It was as though all the most fundamentalist people of all three religions had descended upon the Old City, leaving no room for even simple things like politeness and common courtesy. There was no love in the city of God.”
“Prayer is simply a constant communion with Christ.”
“Prayer changes us because that’s what relationships do.”
“Left to our own devices, we will make God in our own image.”
“The greatest response to life is gratefulness.”
“Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received—only what you have given.” ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI”
“Somewhere, somehow, at some unknown intersection between prayer and work, God indwells our humble offering—God indwells us—and turns human actions into spiritual awakenings.”
“Prayer is about steeping in the Spirit of a God so loving that He totally changes you.”
“Prayer is the main dish. Everything else is gravy.”
“Only God gets the glory when revival comes to town.”
“See every distraction as a clarion call back to prayer.”
“It’s easier to be close to God during prayer time when you’re close to God all the time.”
“You have to be near Him to hear Him.”
“Back then, and even now, I wonder: Am I “empowered”? If you have to hide your hypersensitivity, are you really a “strong woman”? Sometimes another voice enters my head, shooing these thoughts aside. This one tells me that the only really good performance is one where you make yourself vulnerable while pushing beyond your familiar comfort zone. I liken it to having an intense, hyper-real dream, where you step off a cliff but don’t fall to your death.”
“Anyway, the job didn’t call for deep thinking: if you thought too much, brought your insight and intellect to bear on the problems of the nation, you’d get out front of the President, or worse still, off to the side. That’s the surest way down the trash chute in the White House. There’s only one question that the Vice President needs to ask: “What’s the President saying on this?” Anything else is begging for trouble, and George Bush had brains enough to figure that out.”
“My brain was the internet, and I had one thousand tabs open all the time.”
“It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.”
“Do you think, for a moment," she whispered, "that I would have done anything differently? That I could have chosen anything but this, now?" Her dark eyes were alive, bright, shining. "I would suffer any lie, Persephone, for you.”
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