From a sermon

When doing is divorced from being, pious thoughts become a substitute for washing dirty feet. — Brennan Manning

From Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership

One of the main lessons we learn during this stage of the spiritual journey is that God is not in any particular hurry to get us to the Promised Land. He is much more concerned about the transforming work he is doing in us to prepare us for greater responsibilities of freedom living. Onlookers may observe our journey and, like Pharaoh, think we are just wandering around aimlessly, but God knows what he is doing; he is concerned about strengthening our faith so that we are prepared when there are real challenges to be faced. — Ruth Haley Barton

The stage to which she is referring is exemplified by the Israelites after they've left Egypt but prior to getting to the Red Sea when God intentionally led them "in a roundabout way."

From an Operation World Tweet

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart. — John Bunyan

From a blog site

I want my children to grow up understanding that life with Jesus is more than just being nice, or trying not to cuss and get drunk because “that is what good Christians do.” I want my children to be so compelled by the real Jesus that they are willing to stand with him, giving their lives to his revolution, not in order to be religious but because there is simply no more exhilarating way to live. I want my kids to see my wife and me as revolutionaries who subvert the dominant belief systems of the world, not out of religious obligation but in wholehearted response to the person of Jesus. — Mike Erre in Jesus of Suburbia

Question asked as follow up to this: How can we as parents LIVE in such a way that our kids know we are pursuing God’s glory and not our own comfort, pleasure, success, etc…?

From The Hole in Our Gospel

God uses our most painful seasons to deepen our faith and conform us to His will. — Richard Stearns

From The Hole in Our Gospel

Faith today is treated as something that only should make us different, not that actually does or can make us different. In reality we vainly struggle against the evils of this world, waiting to die and go to heaven. Somehow we've gotten the idea that the essence of faith is entirely a mental inward thing. — Dallas Willard

From Twitter

Faith is not only a function of the brain, it must also be an investment of the heart. True faith always results in new and radical living. — Paul Tripp

From trying to process some constructive criticism

Be careful of confusing a lack of exuberance and a quieted surrender to God's sovereignty with a lack of passion for the work of building His kingdom. — Jim VanDuzer

From a blog on the "dark night of the soul"

Never doubt in the darkness what God has shown you in the light. — Dr. V. Raymond Edman

During such a "dark night of the soul" (the term used by sixteenth-century mystic St. John of the Cross), the Christian can only cling to faith with the will, for the emotions have already given up the fight. Usually, however, the feelings eventually return, and faith is left stronger than ever. — Kathrine Swarts