Pseudo-mysticism seeks to evade reality; authentic mysticism wants to live it.
Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.
One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.
Religions . . . seem to avoid mountain passes.
No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.
Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.
He who tries to flee from God takes refuge in himself.
Gods you avoid won't hurt you.
There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.
