Quotes about Immersion

Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.

Observant Judeans would make a stop by the baths before morning prayers, as immersion was a component of spiritual cleanliness. For Jacob there was far more here than merely cleaning off the road's dust. He knew that the act of immersion was considered a symbol of change. Of elevating oneself from the earthly to the heavenly realms. Jacob wanted to mark all that had happened with such an act, and to complete the action with prayer.

When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all.

The first thing you have to do is throw yourself into whatever it is you're doing.

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

The only way that we can avoid the sin of idolatry is by immersing ourselves in Spirit-enlightened study of God through the Scripture.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Salt water is the greatest component of our world, yet some people never see an ocean. That doesn't change the ocean. It is constant and powerful, and like the love of God, whether we're immersed in it, standing on the shore, or a thousand miles away, it remains.

We want something else which can hardly be put into words—to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.

Indeed, the only purpose of the game is to prevent it from coming to an end, to keep everyone in play.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.