Entries Tagged as 'Quotes'

November 1, 2007

Ordinary Moments, Setting Sail

“To be conduits of change, we must be faithful stewards of the small, ordinary moments.” Glenn Packiam, Butterfly in Brazil.

Found this at The Blind Beggar, in a post about Packiam’s book, which is based on the notion of the now famous question, ““If a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, does it cause a [...]

March 31, 2007

Brendan Manning’s Trust

I love this quote. Speaking of his book Ruthless Trust, Brendan Manning says this:
“The underlying premise of this book: the splendor of a human heart which trusts that is loved gives God more pleasure than Westminster Chapel, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, the sight of ten thousand butterfiles in flight, [...]