just a guy
Powell, TN
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Less pride, more humility. Less arrogance, more lowliness. Less striving, more serving. Less chaos and noise, more stillness and quiet. Less neediness, more contentment. Less of self, more of God. #Psalm131
“Show me the way to be poor, so that your richness can become visible, and the way to be weak, so that your strength can become manifest.” ~Henri Nouwen
shed your leaves
let them fall
stand bare
stripped of cover
be who you are
for all to see
with only the glory
I have given you
Those of low estate are but a breath;
those of high estate are a delusion;
in the balances they go up;
they are together lighter than a breath. ~Psalm 62:9
“The soul should realize how powerless it is alone; therefore, let it fall down in humility before God, and in its own heart recognize itself to be nothing. Then grace—which is all powerful—will, out of this nothing, create in it everything.” ~The Art of Prayer
Empty yourself. Make yourself nothing. Take the lowest place. It’s the Jesus way. #Philippians2
Do not be high, but be low. Do not try to be great, but serve. Do not try to be somebody, but become nobody. Do not be busy and loud, but be still and quiet. Do not be big and strong, but become like a weaned child. Do not hope in yourself, but hope in the Lord. #Psalm131
“Surrender to God is the source of true peace; if we aren’t at peace, it is because our surrender is not complete.” ~François Fénelon
“The more one advances along this path, the farther one seems from the goal, and now I am resigned always to be imperfect, and I even find joy in that.” ~St. Thérèse of Lisieux
“You want to climb the mountain, whereas God wishes you to descend it. He is awaiting you in the fruitful valley of humility.” ~St. Thérèse of Lisieux
“Let us in all humility take our place among the imperfect and look upon ourselves as little souls who, at every instant, need to be upheld by the goodness of God.” ~Thérèse of Lisieux
Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. (Ps. 62:5)
O Lord, help my hope to truly be in you and not in myself. I say it’s all up to you, but I live as if it’s up to me. Forgive me.
“You want to climb the mountain, whereas God wishes you to descend it. He is awaiting you in the fruitful Valley of humility.” ~St. Thérèse of Lisieux
“Why count the days, when even one day is enough for a man to know all happiness. My dears, why do we quarrel, boast before each other, remember each other’s offenses? Let us go into the garden, let us walk and play and love and praise and kiss each other and bless our life.”
Help me not to hide my weaknesses, O Lord, for those are the places where your power is most visibly revealed. @2Corinthians12
“Prayer helps us to discern which of our ministerial activities are indeed for the glory of God and which are primarily for the glory of our unconverted ego.” ~Henri Nouwen
“Oh, beloved, we want to realize that it is just because there is so much of the self-life in us that the power of God cannot work in us as mightily as God is willing that it should work.” ~Andrew Murray