Quotes about Alignment
To move from your way of thinking or acting to God's way of thinking or acting will require fundamental adjustments.
— Richard Blackaby
God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
But which should come first, grace or responsibility? The answer is that both come first. All we can do is get out of the way and then the soul takes its natural course.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
God can never be experienced apart from your best interests being involved.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
God is not in competition with reality, but in full cooperation with it.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
All that a spiritual teacher really does is "second the motions" of the Holy Spirit.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
do not find our own Center; it finds us. The body is in the soul. It is both the place of contact and the place of surrender.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
If you want to be used by God, you must care about what God cares about;
— Rick Warren
What power there is in our service when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.
— Hudson Taylor
The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.
— John Stott