Quotes about Absorption

Intent on prayer, she has a dumb girl's sweet piercing way of putting her whole body into one thing at a time.

Drink deeply from good books.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.

The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.

The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A lo of it had to do with things I felt while I played. If only I could feel that sense of total absorption in what I was doing when I was doing other things. It was more than absorption, it was spontaneity, competence, a sense of grace and playfulness, of being in touch with an inexhaustible source of energy and beauty.

The danger is that is Christians do not consciously develop a biblical approach to a subject, then we will unconsciously absorb some other philosophical approach.

The battle is not against sin or difficulties or circumstances, but against being so absorbed in work that we are not ready to face Jesus Christ at every turn.

Be diligent in these matters and absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn." (Winston Churchill)

We do not want to merely "see" beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul under the ribs of death.