“Pray to God, but row towards shore.”
“Pray to God, but row away from the rocks.”
“Maybe the future is like rowing for shore. Your only choice is to try or give up.”
“When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.”
“He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house....he feels he is riding a floating skeleton...Some birds in the almost-dark are flying as close to their reflections as possible.”
“Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.”