Gordon T. Smith Quotes

#1. Good work requires of us an appreciation of the value of routine, ordinary, mundane rhythms of doing what needs to be done, each day and each week, thoroughly and with care.

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#2. Nothing is so fundamental to the spiritual life as learning to give thanks.

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#3. Richard Lovelace's book Dynamics of Spiritual Life,

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#4. Part of the reason why we feel these transitions so keenly is that we know that our lives matter.

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#5. The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness ... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work.

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#6. Something is askew when our passion for the truth blinds us to other perspectives and to the grace to be able to differ graciously from others and learn from others who may see things very differently than we do.

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#7. The wisdom of spiritual direction is precisely that we refuse to stand between God and the person who so needs to hear God for himself, for herself.

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