Showing posts with label John Piper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Piper. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

The Quotable Susan

Quotes from my friend Susan and other equally famous people.


On Prayer:
 
 
“Prayer moves the arm that moves the universe…Prayer is the greatest privilege man can have.”
  -Edward Owings Guerrant as quoted in the book, “Soldiers of the cross” by Kent D .Dollar



“I breathe; I pray. It’s just part of what I do each day to exist.”
 -Susan Siami  (friend)



“We have taken a wartime walkie – talkie and tried to turn it into a civilian intercom to call the servants for another cushion in the den.”
  -John Piper from his book “Desiring God”



“I don’t talk to my son any more. I talk to God about my son. I used to talk to my son but I was getting nowhere. Now I talk to God about my son and I get better results.”
 -Susan Siami  (friend)

 

“I realize that my goal in life is to wake up one morning with everything going so well that I have nothing to pray about. But that is not God’s goal for my life."
  -Susan Siami (friend)
 


“When I lay my questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of ‘no answer’ It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate gaze, as though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question.  Like ‘Peace, child; you don’t understand."
  -C. S. Lewis from his book “A Grief Observed”



“Courage is just fear that has said its prayers.”
-Adrian Rogers