Christie Purifoy Quotes

#1. If I want to abide in this day, to make my home in it, I must only tear my eyes from tomorrow and look around. For there is a wholeness to this day that I do not want to miss.

Christie Purifoy

#2. God does not erase our losses, those empty places in our lives, but he does something almost more miraculous. He fills the loss with a sign of his presence.

Christie Purifoy

#3. That our lives are not defined by what we've lost but by all that returns, fresh and new.

Christie Purifoy

#4. During Advent, we prepare room in a new day for an old story. Through our attentive waiting, we participate in the story of the season and make it new again. And we are made new by it. We emerge at the other end of Advent's tunnel, and we are not as we were when our journey began.

Christie Purifoy

#5. I am uncertain whether I took my first steps on clay soil or sand, but I know I have long wondered if home is the place from which we come or the place we are headed.

Christie Purifoy

#6. I want to observe the ordinary things of earth - the moon, the stars, the rainbows, even the yellow leaves of the old cherry trees - and receive their messages. To hear them say what every weary traveler, every earnest seeker, longs to hear. Welcome home.

Christie Purifoy

#7. Our lives are stories built of small moments. Ordinary experiences. It is too easy to forget that our days are adding up to something astonishing. We do not often stop to notice the signs and wonders. The writing on the wall.

Christie Purifoy

#8. When we begin from a place of belief, no matter how small or insubstantial, we can see what was always there, hidden in plain sight.

Christie Purifoy

#9. We must plant our dreams in real earth. We must dirty our hands. It's the only way. Whether we dream of planting flower gardens or churches, ever dream needs a place in which to take root and grow. Every dream needs a home.

Christie Purifoy

#10. When something breaks down or does not go as planned, we are given a glimpse of our great need.

Christie Purifoy