Peter Bailey

Attempting to slow down in a speed up culture.

[Peter Bailey @PeterB25]

Much of God’s saving activity in our history could remain completely unknown. That is a mystery difficult to grasp in an age that attaches so much importance to publicity. We tend to think that the more people know and talk about something, the more important must be. -B Manning

[Peter Bailey @PeterB25]

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God. -Thomas Merton

[Peter Bailey @PeterB25]

Grace substitutes a full, childlike and delighted acceptance of our need, a joy in total dependence. The good man is sorry for the sins which have increased his need. He is not entirely sorry for the fresh need they have produced. - C.S. Lewis

[Peter Bailey @PeterB25]

There’s No Such Thing as an American Bible https://t.co/LlgN0BsUR1

[Peter Bailey @PeterB25]

I started Eugene Peterson’s, 5 Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work, and he speaks so clearly and strongly!

[Peter Bailey @PeterB25]

It is easier to deal with people’s needs in the mass in the sacred enclosure of the pulpit than to face them alone in the intimate relationship of a pastoral visit.

- Donald G. Miller

[Peter Bailey @PeterB25]

Don’t be impressed w/ charisma; look out for character. Who preachers are is the main thing, not what they say. A genuine leader will never exploit your emotions or your pocketbook. These diseased trees w/ their bad apples are going to be chopped down & burned.

- Matt. 7:15-16

[Peter Bailey @PeterB25]

Grace is not opposed to effort (action) though it is opposed to earning (attitude).

Any activity that is in our power & enables us to achieve by grace what we cannot achieve by direct effort is a discipline of the spiritual life.
-D Willard

What’s ur most helpful discipline?

[Peter Bailey @PeterB25]

I’m order to sustain and develop such a life of loving abandonment to God, an overall plan of life is required, incorporating special practices that care for the inner person. - Dallas Willard

[Peter Bailey @PeterB25]

We should not shrink experience to fit our understanding. But enlarge our understanding to take on experience.
- Dale Allison

[Peter Bailey @PeterB25]

While canoeing with my 91 year old grandpa today he said, “Still waters are deep waters”. He was talking about the water…I was thinking about our spiritual lives.

That’ll preach. Be still.

#slowdown #contemplative #godspeed

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

What I love about the Pentecostal tradition is the belief that if we create space (esp in our gatherings) God will meet us in power.

What I love about the Contemplative tradition is the belief that if we create space (esp interior space) God will meet us in stillness.

[ACC Network @accnetwork]

This might go down as the greatest interview in college baseball history 😂😂 @bigdonkey47

[Peter Bailey @PeterB25]

Discretion is the ability to wait to see what unfolds, to not act. It involves the humility and patience to discern when to leave things alone, knowing when our interference will only complicate things.
- John Cassian

[Peter Bailey @PeterB25]

Not very much fits in a healthy life.

[Peter Bailey @PeterB25]

The gospel tells us that our belovedness will never change according to our wanderings. But our belovedness is intended to change our wanderings. - @_jaystringer

[Peter Bailey @PeterB25]

Receive every person as if you are receiving Christ himself. - St. Benedict

[Peter Bailey @PeterB25]

Nearly everything that has happened to me has happened by surprise…When I thought I was in my story or in charge of it, I really have been only on the edge of it, carried along. Is this because we are in an eternal story that is happening partly in time? -Wendell Berry

[Peter Bailey @PeterB25]

Jesus seems to have come to carry religion out of the temples into the fields and sheep pastures, onto the roadsides and the banks of rivers, into the houses of sinners and publicans, into the town and the wilderness. -Wendell Berry

[Peter Bailey @PeterB25]

@AceHardware two runs from a 5th grader and this happens. AND you won’t return them?!