"We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us." Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
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"Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning" Psalm 143:8
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I hold special quotations and scriptures in my heart. I love to visit my Haven and imagine
"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
"In a life in which there is no demand, there is no meaning.
"Whom have I in Heaven but you? And there is none upon earth
"But as for me, my contentment is not in wealth, but in seeing you,
Our wisdom will come not out of books but from living in the presence
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen: not only because
If we make a quietness within ourselves, if we silence all desire and opinions
We become truly personal by loving God and by loving other humans. In its
Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself
Keep praying, but be thankful that God's answers are wiser than your prayers!
"Defending the Bible is like defending a lion."
"We can make our heart a chapel where we can go anytime to talk to God in that
myself on the sailboat out in the lake looking up at the mountains. I will be adding
to this journal so visit again.
The Haven Journal 
"Then they cry out to the Lord in their trouble, And He brings them
out of their distresses. He calms the storm, so that its waves are still.
Then they are glad, because they are quiet;
So He guides them to their desired haven."
(Psalm 107:28-30)
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is growing up."
(by James Baldwin, 1924)
If no demand is put on you, then you are in a sense excluded."
"From what?"
"Life itself. To be demanded of gives us dignity. Don't you see
that the demand is that you take part in the huge cosmic struggle that
is going on? Apathy is the gravest of sin! Even the tiniest creature
can shake the universe. Only obedience is perfect freedom."
(from The Young Unicorns by Madeline L'Engle)
that I desire besides you."
(Psalm 73:25)
and knowing all is well between us. And when I awake in heaven, I will be
fully satisfied, for I will see you face to face."
(Psalm 17:15)
of God, and the earth will glow brighter than the sun, and there will be no
sadness, no sighs will be heard. The whole world will be paradise.
(Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Adolescent")
I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
(C.S. Lewis)
and if with love, without formulating any words, we bind our whole soul to think
"Thy will be done," the thing which after that we feel sure we should do....
....is the will of God.
(Simone Weil)
deepest sense, love is the life, the energy, of the Creator in us.
(Kallistos Ware)
in protection from suffering...
The love of God did not protect His own Son...He will not necessarily protect us..not
from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and
purifying by fire will have to go into the process.
God is God. Because He is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest
nowhere but in His holy will, a will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of
what He is up to.
(Elisabeth Elliot)
(William Culbertson)
(Charles Spurgeon)
continuous communion with God. Don't do this in expectation of receiving heavenly
comforts; simply do it out of love for Him."
(Brother Lawrence, from The Practice of the Presence of God)
