#go

God is the composer; you are the song. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#composer #god #life #song #experience

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods. ↗

— R.C. Sproul

#sovereignty-of-god #experience

Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#experience #god #sunlight #woods #experience

It’s called an ‘accomplishment’, not an ‘intent-ishment’. You’ve got to BE it to SEE it. NO MORE EXCUSES - Decide what you want, create a plan, and get your ass out there! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#action #dreams #excuses #goals #inspirational

You need to trust God so you can trust others. ↗

— Laurie Alice Eakes

#god #trust #faith

A moment of grace. There rose up within me a profound sense of being loved. I felt "gathered together" and encircled by a Presence completely loving, as if I were enveloped by the music of a love song created just for me. It was not overwhelming or even emotional. Just a warm knowing that I was in God's loving embrace...centered and unified there. [Love]encounters cannot be analyzed, only shared. If you take a butterfly, Robert Frost said, and pin it down into a box, you no longer have a butterfly. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#experience

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#theology #experience

Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God. And yet, thus to penetrate, to push in sensitive living experience into the holy Presence, is a privilege open to every child of God. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#scribe #word-of-god #experience

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience. ↗

— Charles S. Peirce

#learning #pedagogy #experience

The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it. ↗

— Alister E. McGrath

#god #proof #theology #experience