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

4. “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

5. “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

6. “Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.” ~ Dallas Willard, Philosopher U. of Southern California

7. “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

8. “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

9. “A biblical Christian is not just someone who holds certain beliefs about the Bible. He or she is also someone who leads the kind of life demonstrated in the Bible: a life of personal, intelligent interaction with God.” ~ Dallas Willard, Professor of Philosophy U. of Southern California

10. “God’s voice will never tell us to engage in any activity or relationship that is inconsistent with the Holy Scriptures.” ~ Charles Stanely

11. “Anyone who rejects the general counsels of Scripture is in fact planning not to be guided by God and cannot then rely on being able to be delivered from their difficulties by obtaining God’s input on particular occasions.” ~ Dallas Willard, Philosopher U. of Southern California

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

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

14. “It is completely foreign to the New Testament to split the Christian community into one speaker and a silent body of listeners.” ~ D.A. Carson, Theologian

15. “Get Thee to a Home Church.” ~ Bruxy Cavey

16. “Certainly the Spirit’s purposes are Christocentric.” ~ D.A. Carson, Theologian

17. “If you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.” ~ Proverbs 2:3-5 (NIV)

18. “We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can be almost as stupid as a cabbage, as long as you doubt.” ~ Dallas Willard, Professor of Philosophy, U. of Southern California

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22. “It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.” ~ Dallas Willard, Professor of Philosophy, U. of Southern California

23. “But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.” ~ James 3:17 (TNIV)

24. “This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” ~ 1 John 4:9-10 (TNIV)

25. Love culminates in bliss when it doth reach A white, unflickering, fear-consuming glow; And knowing it is known as it doth know, Needs no assuring word or soothing speech. It craves but silent nearness, so to rest, No sound, no movement, love not heard but felt, Longer and longer still, till time should melt, A snow-flake on the eternal ocean’s breast. ~ Frances Ridley Havergal