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The Art of Spiritual Writing: How to Craft Prose That Engages and Inspires Your Readers QUOTES

The Art of Spiritual Writing: How to Craft Prose That Engages and Inspires Your Readers QUOTES

1 " When a writer takes on the task of exploring the world of the spirit, she has invited a process that will change her permanently. If she has done her work well, it will change her readers too. "

― , The Art of Spiritual Writing: How to Craft Prose That Engages and Inspires Your Readers

2 " If you want to be an authentic writer, learn to tell the truth, to wrestle with it, to reflect on it, and then to write about it with great care. And great humility. "

― , The Art of Spiritual Writing: How to Craft Prose That Engages and Inspires Your Readers

3 " A growing spiritual life leads to a growing healthy sense of self. As a Christian I grow spiritually by admitting what's not going well with me - and also by admitting that God's grace is already dealing with my sins and imperfections - as well as admitting that I am lovely and amazing by mere virtue of the fact that God of the universe loves me, creates me, desires me, and will never forsake me. If I am to grow spiritually, I will continue to hold all of that truth in grace-filled tension. I see the truth of myself, but that truth is complete only if it includes Divine Presence as an ongoing reality. "

― , The Art of Spiritual Writing: How to Craft Prose That Engages and Inspires Your Readers

4 " The False Self constructs all sorts of layers of ego and angst and striving and foolishness, while the True Self, deep at the center of a person, waits for the time when the False Self will die and allow the real life to begin. "

― , The Art of Spiritual Writing: How to Craft Prose That Engages and Inspires Your Readers

5 " If you have writer's block, dig into it. You are resisting something. Something is getting in the way of your creative work. Resistance always means something. "

― , The Art of Spiritual Writing: How to Craft Prose That Engages and Inspires Your Readers

6 " Good writing is emotionally honest but does not get stuck in the emotion. "

― , The Art of Spiritual Writing: How to Craft Prose That Engages and Inspires Your Readers

7 " Accept that you will never be objective enough to judge your personal writing very well. During "

― , The Art of Spiritual Writing: How to Craft Prose That Engages and Inspires Your Readers