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Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence QUOTES

Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence QUOTES

1 " We are starved for quiet, to hear the sound of sheer silence that is the presence of God himself. "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

2 " Psalm 46: 10 tells us there is a kind of knowing that comes in silence and not in words-but first we must be still.
The Hebrew word translated "Be still" literally means "Let go of your grip. "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

3 " Because we do not rest we lose our way.... Poisoned by the hypnotic belief that good things come only through unceasing determination and tireless effort, we can never truly rest. And for want of rest our lives are in danger. "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

4 " This self is freer, because it knows itself to be finally and ultimately held safely in a Love that is unchangeable and real. "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

5 " If we are able to stay with our frustrations long enough and not give up, we may begin to suspect that the things that most need to be known and solved and figured out in our life are not going to be discovered, solved or figured out at the thinking level anyway. The things we most need to know, solve and figure out will be heard at the listening level, that place within us where God's Spirit witnesses with our spirit (Rom 8:16). Here God speaks to us of things that cannot be understood through human wisdom or shuffled around and
filed away in the mind (1 Cor 2:10-13). Spiritual discernment is given as pure gift in God's way, in God's time, beyond what the human mind can force (1 Cor 2:14). "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

6 " At times the strength of spiritual community lies in the love of people who refrain from getting caught in the trap of trying to fix everything for us, who pray for us and allow us the pain of our wilderness, our wants, so that we may be more deeply grounded in God.
ROSEMARY DOUGHERTY "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

7 " Mi corazón no es orgulloso, ni son altivos mis ojos; no busco grandezas desmedidas, ni proezas que excedan a mis fuerzas. "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

8 " Mi corazón no es orgulloso, ni son altivos mis ojos; no busco grandezas desmedidas, ni proezas que excedan a mis fuerzas. SALMO 131:1 "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

9 " ¡Hasta qué punto necesitan nuestras mentes aprender a descansar de la forma en que lo describe el salmista! "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

10 " El silencio nos ayuda a bucear por debajo de la superficialidad de nuestras construcciones mentales hasta el lugar de nuestro corazón, que resulta más profundo en cuanto a su realidad, que cualquier cosa que la mente pueda captar o expresar en palabras. "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

11 " True love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and border and salute each other. "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

12 " El permitirnos desear con desesperación algo que no estamos seguros que podamos obtener, nos atemoriza; especialmente cuando se trata de algo esencial, como la presencia de Dios en nuestras vidas. "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

13 " Puede ser que no estemos conscientes de ello, pero nuestro deseo de Dios es la cosa más verdadera y esencial que tenemos "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

14 " Amamos a Dios porque Dios nos amó primero. "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

15 " The prophets of Baal called to their gods all day, but nothing happened.
Then Elijah repaired the altar of the Lord, dug a trench around it and placed a bull on it as an offering to the Lord. For good measure, he soaked the altar with water three times until the water ran all around the altar, filling up the trench. Then he cried out to God, and the fire of God descended on the altar, consumed everything on it and around it, "and even licked up the water in the trench."
The people of Israel fell on their faces in God's presence, acknowledging him as the true God. The prophets of Baal tried to run away from such a fearsome display of power, but Elijah captured them and killed them all.
When we catch up with Elijah in 1 Kings 19, he is exhausted from the outpouring of spiritual, physical and emotional energy that this confrontation had required. His life is in danger because of the threat he now posed for the queen of the land, and he is deeply afraid. He is in the throes of the kind of major letdown that often comes when we have given everything we've got. So there was literally nothing he could do but collapse under a solitary broom tree. "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

16 " Cuando Elías entró en la soledad y el silencio, una de las primeras cosas que debió tener en cuenta fue lo cansado, lo agotado que se encontraba a todo nivel. "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

17 " El Señor comenzó por ocuparse de la fatiga y el agotamiento físico de Elías. "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

18 " la historia de Elías me invitó a dejar de intentar combatir el cansancio y rendirme a él en la presencia del Señor. "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

19 " Aun cuando nuestra forma de vida pueda parecernos heroica, hay una buena proporción de nuestra frenética actividad que perturba a aquellos que nos rodean. "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

20 " Pero los tiempos de soledad y silencio no son tiempos para emitir juicios con respecto nuestra conducta. Son tiempos para darnos cuenta, para descubrir, la verdad sobre nosotros mismos en un momento dado, y entonces presentarnos a Dios con todo aquello que hemos notado. "

― Ruth Haley Barton , Invitation to Solitude and Silence: Experiencing God's Transforming Presence