Luci Shaw Quotes

#1. Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we have. In the process of creation and relationship, what seems mundane and trivial may show itself to be a holy, precious part of a pattern.

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#2. Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger.

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#3. Faith today is not enough for tomorrow. It must be constantly renewed by a conscious act.

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#4. I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smooth and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success.

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#5. Disappointment often focuses on the failure of our own agenda rather than on God's long-term purposes for us, which may use stress and struggle as tools for strengthening our spiritual muscles.

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#6. Being in a state of mystery seems to be my calling.

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#7. I took a wrong turn the other day. A mistake, but it led me to the shop where I found the very thing I'd been searching for.

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#8. We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the poetry of the Bible, and in all the ordinariness of the lives we live.

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#9. Beauty is there to be noticed. Too often it is taken for granted because we are moving too fast to let it in and allow it to deliver its message in us. We need to pay attention. To show indifference to beauty is an insult to its Creator.

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