"O God, I have tasted Your goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the triune God, I want to want you; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Your glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know You indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, "Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away." Then give me grace to rise and follow You up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long."
"Jesus, I need to give myself up. I am not strong enough to love You and walk with You on my own. I need You deeply and desperately. I believe You are worth it, that You are better than anything else I could have in this life or the next. I want You. And when I don't, I want to want You. Be all in me. Take all of me. Have your way with me."
"Try for a whole day to be conscious of heaven. So much is going on outside of this dimension & our existence."
"How we live out our days is the way we will live our lives. And how we live out our lives is a microcosm of the life of the church. We help set the pace for the church by listening, obeying and living Christ."
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