Ahlberg Quotes

#1. I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church.

Timothy Keller

#2. People always covet what they themselves do not possess.

Walter Moers

#3. In poltitics you get what you deserve rather than what you want.

Cecil Parkinson

#4. If a man serves not God only, then surely he serves the devil.

Martin Luther

#5. Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's the development that puts you over the top.

Anonymous

#6. When we are rested, we notice desires as well as lies buried in our souls.

Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

#7. Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

Gerhard Richter

#8. Change is inevitable, they say. Struggle is optional.

Bailey Cates

#9. Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

Elizabeth Bowen

#10. Transformation and healing always begin in a place of desire. There needs to be some deep inner willingness to take a risk on Jesus and begin again and again.

Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

#11. If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. Life is funny, isn't it? Just when you get used to something, poof! It changes.

Indiblogger

#13. Personality and personal identity are in some ways like co-ordinates on the street map drawn by our intersecting relationships.

Gregory David Roberts

#14. Jesus is the one who brings God to us and us to God.

Pope Francis

#15. In the unfixables of our lives we are invited to keep company with Jesus and take a risk that God's intentions toward us are good.

Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

#16. Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle.

Jonathan Tropper

#17. We are not soul freelancers, but beings created to dance in the arms of the Trinity.

Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

#18. The fans that I have met so far have been nothing but supportive and extremely passionate about the books. I feel so honored to meet all these people. Something like this, which I think is bigger than anyone in the film, it's pretty crazy.

Liam Hemsworth

#19. A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

Edward De Bono