Leanne Payne famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is only by remembering that 'Another lives in me' that we can die daily to that old, false, usurping self, and that we can continue to be drawn further in and higher up into the life of God. To 'practice the presence' is to continually call to mind this great reality.
-- Leanne Payne

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If broken lives and souls are to be healed, it must begin with teaching the practice of the presence... To abide in the presence of the Lord is to begin to hear Him. To follow through on that hearing is to find healing, self-acceptance, and growth into psychological and spiritual balance and maturity.
-- Leanne Payne

#Spiritual #Teaching #Healing
Listening to God - which is a key part of practicing His presence - is not a method, but a walk with a person.
-- Leanne Payne

#Keys #Listening #Method
The acknowledgment that God is always with us - even when we are least aware of it in our sensory being - requires discipline. To acknowledge the Unseen Real requires a concerted effort of our will at first. This is why the term practicing the presence is so useful.
-- Leanne Payne

#Real #Discipline #Effort
True listening is obedient listening. To listen to God is to obey Him.
-- Leanne Payne

#Listening #Obedient
While the secular world pushes woman to find her identity in herself as a sex object, the popular teachings in the Church, equally mistaken, encourage woman to find her identity in her roles as wife and mother rather than in her status as a person in Christ, a daughter complete in Him.
-- Leanne Payne

#Daughter #Mother #Sex
Those with a low view of the Bible should not attempt listening prayer, for it can lead into dangerous gnostic listening.
-- Leanne Payne

#Prayer #Views #Listening
The soul is restored through union with God.
-- Leanne Payne

#Soul #Unions

Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.
The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.
Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus. He was always concentrated on the inner alignment through breath.
Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.
It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.

Leanne Payne famous quotes

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