“This praying life is a lifelong task in which we need each other’s companionship. The best companion I know in this, after our Lord himself, is David. The Psalms are David assembling all his experiences, all his difficulties and achievements, and all his doubts and affirmations before God and finding them shaped into wholeness, into salvation - as he becomes more honestly himself and more God’s, both at the same time. Much, we can hope, like us.”
- Eugene Peterson -
"Binne spiritualiteit is verwondering gelyk aan die bewustheid van die Goddelike. Dit staan in diens van ons onvermydelike soeke na betekenis; identiteit, na intimiteit...
“Ordinary hope is tied to an outcome…an optimistic feeling…because we sense that things will get better in the future.” “Mystical hope is a complete...
“The joy that is of God is not opposed to earthly pleasures. Rather, it infuses them with a foundation of meaning.” — William Sloane...
