Notes & Quotes

“Convert your thoughts into prayer. As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.”

Henri Nouwen

“There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.”

Catherine Booth

“Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.”

Henri Nouwen

“Jesus’ basic justice agenda was simple living, humility, and love of neighbor. We all have to live this way ourselves. From that position, God can do God’s work rather easily.”

Richard Rohr

“We are starved for quiet, to hear the sound of sheer silence that is the presence of God Himself.”

Ruth Haley Barton

“There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God.”

Brother Lawrence

“The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.”

William McGill

“I am deeply convinced that the necessity of prayer, and to pray unceasingly, is not as much based on our desire for God as on God’s desire for us. It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.”

Henri Nouwen