Quotes from David Adam

I'm reading a book by one of my favorite authors - David Adam, Walking the Edges: Living in the Presence of God. In this book, building on stories about several Celtic saints, he looks at what it means to live in the presence of God. Here are a couple of quotes from the first several pages:

"Faith does not come without effort on our part, faith asks us to move out of our limiting security."

"If you want to understand the doctrine we have to be willing to live the life: if we want to understand the way of heroes we have to be willing to live heroically, there is no half answer. If you do not enter fully into the life of faith, you will not be aware of what the written word is about. Secure theories can be learned by anyone; true faith involves us fully and leads us to frontiers. God is never on the edges of mystery and the unknown."

"So often when we look back on what seemed to be against what we had planned we discover that it was a point of growth and learning. God does not work only within the confines of the Church or of our own ideas: it is often when we are forced to do other than we planned that the great Other works through us."

Within each piece of creation,
within each person,
the hidden God waits
to surprise us with His glory.

Within each moment of time,
within each day and hour,
the hidden God approaches us
calling our name to make us His own.

Within each human heart,
within our innermost being,
the hidden God touches us,
to awaken us and to reveal His love.

Everything, everyone is within God,
all space, all time and every person.
The hidden God asks us to open
our eyes and our hearts to His presence.

I can't recommend his books enough! They're great devotional reads and I find them especially inspiring during the "hard" seasons for me - Winter, that's when I often reread them. He has written several books on the Celtic saints, as well as on prayer and meditation.