Alive Quote by Mark Buchanan

“Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.” quote by Mark Buchanan — Download Open image

“Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.”

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“In a culture where busyness is a fetish and stillness is laziness, rest is sloth. But without rest, we miss the rest of God:…

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Once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing. God's solution is surprising. He offers rest. But it's a unique form of rest. It's to rest in him in the midst of our threats and our burdens. It's discovering, as David did in seasons of distress, that God is our rock…

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Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.

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“One of the largest obstacles to true Sabbath-keeping is leisure. It is what cultural historian Witold Rybczynski calls “waiting for the weekend,” where we see work as only an extended interlude between our real lives. Leisure is what Sabbath becomes when we no longer know how to sanctify time. Leisure is Sabbath bereft of the sacred. It is a vacation—literally,…

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God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones…

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All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.

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This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.

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The examen is a form of personal inventory. At day’s end, spend time in prayerful reflection on your day: your comings and goings, routines…

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“That's how I read the Bible. There are more than sixty references in Scripture to celebration and all but one or two of them…

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“Forgiven people "prove" they're forgiven by walking in newness of life. They walk in the light, walk by faith, walk by the Spirit. Forgiveness…

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I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

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We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

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If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

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I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

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I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot…

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