“Prayer is easily ruined when we make it a project - part of a spiritual self-improvement plan. Rather than pushing yourself forward by resolve, allow God to lead you by desire. The most typical evidence of grace at work within… — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
“Some Christians mistrust or de-emphasize the role of the senses in spirituality, considering them to be inferior to reason and cognition. Such a view… — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
“Love reconnects us to life. The truth of Christ's life is that life is love and love is life. There is no genuine life… — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
“Self-acceptance always precedes genuine self-surrender and self-transformation.” — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
“Watch particularly for traces of God in other people. Since humans are that part of creation most directly reflecting the divine image and likeness,… — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
“We do not pray so that we can get God's attention. We pray so that God will get our attention.” — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
“Most broadly understood, lectio divina involves receiving God's revelation wherever it occurs. This means that there are other media beyond Scriptures that can also… — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
“Paying attention is being open and awake - ready to be seized by whatever is present to us in the present moment. This is… — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
“Teresa of Avila says that the important thing in prayer is not to think much but to love much. The head is not a… — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
“The personal costs of counseling also remind us why it is so necessary for a counselor to experience continuous renewal through Scripture, prayer, and… — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
“If we are honest, most of us have to admit that prayer is often more of an obligation than something arising spontaneously from desire… — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
“Prayerful paying attention is not scrunching up our willpower and tightening our focus, but simply opening our self to what we encounter. This makes… — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
“silence is God’s first language; everything else is a poor translation.” — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
