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I am just going to continue to add quotations I like about prayer, judging people and other things on this post instead of adding mulitple posts.

PRAYER

From: http://www.americancatholic.org/news/newsreport.aspx?id=789
"Prayer, in fact, reaches its culmination and, therefore, becomes a source of interior light when the human spirit adheres to God's spirit and their wills fuse, becoming almost one,"… Continue

A Spirituality of Frustrated "Certainty"
You have to read this. It's wonderful. That's all I'll say. Wait, no, I lied. Here is one quotation from his blog entry, "One of the primary differences between a spirituality of desperation and a spirituality of Kingdom living is that life in the Kingdom is a matter of experiencing the Holy Spirit in normal life, and there is not a constant need to c… Continue

It’s kind of sad that we Christians spend so much time “dissing” other Christians. The world surely does not need to hear or see that. They need to see Jesus: “Sir, we would see Jesus.” Nevertheless, I can understand that people are free to point out the problems they saw when they were within one Christian tradition or another. I have learned much from within Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy (reading about it and practicing some of its forms of prayer), charismatic churches, evangelical teachings… Continue

I love this painting and found that the artist is Dewey Simon and you can purchase prints at:
http://christcenteredmall.com/stores/art/dewey/living_water.htm

The story of Jesus at the well wit… Continue

Ben Witherington III gives a link on his blog at Ben's Blog to an article by priest/author Henri Nouwen called "A Spirituality of Waiting."

You can read it at:
"A Spirituality of Waiting."

I like how he talks about some of the people in the Bible actively waiting. Some of my favorite things from it are:

“So waiting is never a movement from nothing to something. It is always a moveme… Continue