Eric Weddle Quotes

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example.

When I was locked up, I went through a big personal change with my attitude and spiritual, everything. I went through some major changes locked up.

It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.

Have faith in God. It will make you dig deeper and become a better leader.

Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are.

Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

I believe God put that desire inside of all of us so that we can evaluate ourselves in the light of His Word in order to become all that He created us to be.

In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced.

Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.

I've grown so much since 1996. I think that was the turning point of when I started to go to church every Sunday and not just because you're supposed to. But because you enjoy going and listening to the Word and being excited about it.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.