EXPERIENCING THE ALMIGHTY

Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern California “I believe that people are meant to live in an ongoing conversation with God, speaking and being spoken to.” ~ Dallas Willard, Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern California

“I do not believe that God our Father is a dumb, non-communicative impersonality.” ~ E. Stanley Jones

~ Lilly Tomlin, Comedian “Why is it that when we speak to God we are said to be praying, but when God speaks to us we are said to be schizophrenic?” ~ Lilly Tomlin, Comedian

“He walks with me, and he talks with me And he tells me I am his own, And the joy we share as we tarry there, None other has ever known.” ~ C. Austin Miles, In The Garden

“I make it my business to persevere in his Holy presence, wherein I keep myself by a simple attention and a general fond regard to God, which I may call an ACTUAL PRESENCE of God; or, to speak better, an habitual, silent, and secret conversation of the soul with God.” ~ Brother Lawrence

“Earth’s crammed with Heaven, and every common bush afire with God; but only he who sees takes off his shoes.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Suppose a parent would dictate to the child minutely everything he is to do during the day. The child would be stunted under that regime. The parent must guide in such a manner, and to the degree, that autonomous character, capable of making right decisions for itself, is produced. God does the same.” ~ E. Stanley Jones

“How many have mistaken the voice of their own imagination for this witness of the Spirit of God!” ~ John Wesley

“The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal life-style of believers.” ~ Charles Stanley

“The Spirit who inhabits us is not mute, restricting himself to an occasional nudge, a hot flash, a brilliant image, or a case of goose bumps.” ~ Dallas Willard

“Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it.” ~ Genesis 28:16 (NIV)

~ Sir James Jean, Physicist “Today there is a wide measure of agreement, which on the side of Physics approaches almost to unanimity, that the stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears as an accidental intruder into the realm of matter; we are beginning to suspect that we ought rather to hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.” ~ Sir James Jean, Physicist

Nobel Laureate Physicist “It is not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to consciousness.” ~ Eugene Winger, Nobel Laureate Physicist

“In him all things hold together.” ~ Colossians 1:17 (TNIV)

“Man’s chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.” ~ Westminster Shorter Catechism

“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me.” ~ Psalm 23:4 (NIV)

never will I forsake you.“ Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,  "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.“ ~ Hebrews 13:5-6 (TNIV)

The key to joy is not God’s presents but his presence.

“If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.” ~ Luke 16:31 (TNIV)

“Pray without ceasing.” ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:17 (NASB)

“I wish that all the LORD's people were prophets and that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!” ~ Numbers 11:26 (NIV)

“I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” ~ Jesus, Matthew 28:20 (TNIV)

“My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.” ~ John 10:27 (TNIV)

EXPERIENCING THE ALMIGHTY