Mark Buchanan famous quotes

03-28-2025

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.
-- Mark Buchanan

#Needs #Alive #Grows
Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.
-- Mark Buchanan

#Taken #Expression #Doubt
The examen is a form of personal inventory. At dayâ€™s end, spend time in prayerful reflection on your day: your comings and goings, routines and disruptions, work and play, discoveries and disappointments. Think about who you met, or missed. Think about your moments of aloneness. In all, ask two questions: when was I most alive, most present, most filled and fulfilled today? And when was I most taxed, stressed, distracted, depleted today? A simpler, and more spiritually focused, version of those questions: when did I feel closest to God, and when farthest?
-- Mark Buchanan

#Disappointment #Reflection #Thinking
Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.
-- Mark Buchanan

#Soul #Sickness
All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.
-- Mark Buchanan

#Wickedness #World #Forget
Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.
-- Mark Buchanan

#Giving #Golden #Embrace
Busyness makes us stop caring about the things we care about.
-- Mark Buchanan

#Caring #Care #Stop Caring
Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.
-- Mark Buchanan

#Giants #Ethical #Midget
This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.
-- Mark Buchanan

#Children #Enemy #God Love
Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.
-- Mark Buchanan

#Risk
And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of-to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there's nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.
-- Mark Buchanan

#Believe #Responsibility #Winter

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