John Stott

"We are called to double listening: listening to the Word, listening to the world."

- John Stott (27 April 1921 to 27 July 2011)

Prayer and our heart

"Prayer can bring the truths of faith and life from the head to the heart;
prayer opens the heart not only to God, but to all we meet."

- Sacred Space: the Prayer Book 2011

Trop est avare á qui Dieu ne suffit

"It is remarkable how much self-emptying we all experience as we grow older... Saint John of the Cross, writing the Dark Night of the Soul, saw God's action in all this: as ego recede, God can fill our hearts.

Trop est avare á qui Dieu ne suffit. (You're too greedy if God is not enough for you.)"

- Sacred Space: the Prayer Book 2011

Illusions of fulfillment

"Everything has the potential to draw forth from me a fuller love and life.
Yet my desires are often fixed, caught, on illusions of fulfillment. I ask that God, through my freedom, may orchestrate my desires in a vibrant loving melody rich in harmony."

- Sacred Space: the Prayer Book 2011

New Eyes

"Being a Christian doesn't mean having big ideas, but new eyes."
"It is our wounds that gives us our credentials, not our degrees."

- Shane Claiborne from Dirty Theology
Sermon in Duke University Chapel (4 March 2011)

Listen to the sermon on youtube