“Some Christians mistrust or de-emphasize the role of the senses in spirituality, considering them to be inferior to reason and cognition. Such… — David G. Benner Christianity 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… — David G. Benner Genuine life Copy Share Image
“Self-acceptance always precedes genuine self-surrender and self-transformation.” — David G. Benner Authenticity 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… — David G. Benner Presence of god 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 Focus 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… — David G. Benner Bible Copy Share Image
“Paying attention is being open and awake - ready to be seized by whatever is present to us in the present moment.… — David G. Benner Focus 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… — David G. Benner Prayer 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,… — 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… — David G. Benner Prayer 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.… — David G. Benner Discipline Copy Share Image
“silence is God’s first language; everything else is a poor translation.” — David G. Benner Silence Copy Share Image
“AN ANCIENT AID TO DEEP KNOWING OF OUR SIN One tool that many people have found helpful in identifying basic sin tendencies… — David G. Benner Integrity Copy Share Image
“The self that begins the spiritual journey is the self of our own creation, the self we thought ourselves to be. This… — David G. Benner Divine love Copy Share Image
“The only thing we should seek in prayer is God. When we focus on how we are doing or what we are… — David G. Benner Prayer Copy Share Image
“I accept Augustine's maxim of solvitor ambulando - things are solved by walking.' Sometimes when I walk, I think of God, and… — David G. Benner Prayer Copy Share Image
“Spiritual friends help us most when they make clear that their job is to point the way, not to lead the way.… — David G. Benner Friends Copy Share Image
“Prayer is easily ruined when we make it a project - part of a spiritual self-improvement plan. Rather than pushing yourself forward… — David G. Benner Prayer Copy Share Image
“Pilgrimage always involves both an exterior and interior journey. Any travel can be a pilgrimage, regardless of the destination or whether or… — David G. Benner Journey Copy Share Image
“If God has come in the flesh, and if God keeps coming to us in our fleshly existence, then all of life… — David G. Benner Life Copy Share Image
“Contemplative prayer is not so much a type of prayer as something that should be a component of all prayer. It is… — David G. Benner Contemplative prayer Copy Share Image
