Power of the Senses

To destroy [the power of the senses], the most effectual means is, in general, is to deny them firmly what will please, and to persevere in this until they are reduced to being without desire or repugnance.


Jeanne Guyon: An Autobiography. Witaker House, New Kensington, PA (1997). Page 52.
(Madame Guyon lived from 1647 to 1717)

Discipline, Integrity, Protection

"Through the simple but demanding discipline of our constant walk in integrity of heart, God reveals He will protect and defend us from devices of evil or detours of self-confusion." --Jack Hayford


Living the Spirit Formed Life: Growing in the 10 Principles of Spirit-Filled Discipleship. Regal: Ventura, California (2001) page 101.

Progress by Standing Still

"Counselor Helen Luke cautions that without significant times to be still, we 'extinguish the possibility of growth and walk backwards.' Here's the paradox: we achieve our deepest progress standing still." --Sue Monk Kidd

When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions. HarperSanFrancisco (1992). Page 34.

"Don't Have it, Can't Get It"

"When the humble say, 'I don't have it and I can't get it on my own,' God says, 'I've got it and I'm going to give it to you.' That's God's grace."

Stormie Omartian. Lord, I Want to Be Whole: The Power of Prayer and Scripture in Emotional Healing. Thomas Nelson Publishers: Nashville (2000). Page 114.

Tempted Nonstop

The battle with temptation ceases temporarily when one gives in to the object of desire. Jesus, in His obedience, had no fleshly escape clause. He held fast to the Father's will to the end. We can assume in turn that He was tempted nonstop with an intensity that neither the homosexual struggler nor any other person has ever faced.


Andrew Comiskey. Pursuing Sexual Wholeness: How Jesus Heals the Homosexual. Creation House, Lake Mary, Florida (1989) page 61.

Union of the Will

The union of the will subjects the soul to God, conforms it to all His pleasure, and causes self-will gradually to die.


Jeanne Guyon: An Autobiography. Witaker House, New Kensington, PA (1997). Page 51.
(Madame Guyon lived from 1647 to 1717)

We're All Vulnerable

"...all of us are vulnerable to confusion and mistakes, to being misled or to becoming the victim of someone else's manipulations. Like Abimelech [see Genesis 20], without our awareness and completely outside our intent or cooperation, we may become trapped." --Jack Hayford



Living the Spirit Formed Life: Growing in the 10 Principles of Spirit-Filled Discipleship. Regal: Ventura, California (2001) page 100.

Consenting to Be Where we Are

"'Contemplative waiting is consenting to be where we really are.'" --Sue Monk Kidd quoting Brother Anthony of the Abbey of Gethsemani.

When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions. HarperSanFrancisco (1992). Page 32.

Need for Approval

"Receiving the gift of God's love means that we don't have to do desperate things for approval. Nor do we have to be depressed when we don't receive love from other people exactly the way we feel we need it. When we sense God's love, it takes the pressure off relationships and frees us to be who we were made to be."

Stormie Omartian. Lord, I Want to Be Whole: The Power of Prayer and Scripture in Emotional Healing. Thomas Nelson Publishers: Nashville (2000). Page 111.

How Could Satan Tempt Him?

In His humanity Jesus faced the temptation to find security and pleasure apart from the Father's will. How else could Satan truly tempt Him unless he had access to something Jesus had the capacity to desire?


Andrew Comiskey. Pursuing Sexual Wholeness: How Jesus Heals the Homosexual. Creation House, Lake Mary, Florida (1989) page 60.

Faith's Own Pure Light

Faith...makes the soul lose every distinct light, in order to place it in its own pure light.


Jeanne Guyon: An Autobiography. Witaker House, New Kensington, PA (1997). Page 51.
(Madame Guyon lived from 1647 to 1717)

The Law of First Usage

"There's a simple principle of Bible study usually called the law of first usage. It's impressively consistent, in that it simply notes that the first time you encounter an idea or principle in the Bible, you will generally find its first usage defines the idea's usage throughout God's Word--the concept will be consistent in intent and meaning throughout the Scriptures, as it is found in its first occurrence." --Jack Hayford



Living the Spirit Formed Life: Growing in the 10 Principles of Spirit-Filled Discipleship. Regal: Ventura, California (2001) page 100

Stopping Inner Pain

"...[we can be] hooked on a specific series of actions in order to avoid inner pain or inner growth.... Whatever we use repeatedly and compulsively to stop that growth is our particular addiction." --Sue Monk Kidd


When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions. HarperSanFrancisco (1992). Page 30

Giving Control to the Devil

"If I become unrepentant and repeat the offense until I am uncontrollably drawn to it, then I have given control to the devil and the bondage is satanic."

Stormie Omartian. Lord, I Want to Be Whole: The Power of Prayer and Scripture in Emotional Healing. Thomas Nelson Publishers: Nashville (2000). Page 83.

What Necessitates Jesus?

...[Our] heart's cry for wholeness is precisely what necessitates Him [Jesus].


Andrew Comiskey. Pursuing Sexual Wholeness: How Jesus Heals the Homosexual. Creation House, Lake Mary, Florida (1989) page 59.

Destroyed by the Operations of Love

When the will of the created entirely submits to that of the Creator, suffering freely and voluntarily and yielding only a consent to the divine will, which is its absolute submission, allowing itself to be totally surmounted and destroyed by the operations of love, this absorbs the will into self, consummates it in that of God, and purifies it from all narrowness, dissimilitude, and selfishness.


Jeanne Guyon: An Autobiography. Witaker House, New Kensington, PA (1997). Page 48
(Madame Guyon lived from 1647 to 1717)

Spirit Nourishment

"Some time ago a friend of my mother said to her, 'Dolores, I feel so stupid when I study the Word of God. I just don't seem to remember anything at all.'

"Quite wisely, my mother responded, 'Lou, do you remember what you ate for breakfast on Tuesday, three weeks ago?'

"Her friend looked at her, rather stunned, and replied, 'Well, no, I don't.'

"Mama explained, 'It still supported and nourished you, didn't it?'

"Get the point? Just keep reading the Bible. You may not remember everything, but the Word is flowing into your spirit. And as it does, it's giving you abiding strength and sustenance as you simply obey and read."



Living the Spirit Formed Life: Growing in the 10 Principles of Spirit-Filled Discipleship. Regal: Ventura, California (2001) page 91.

Sacred Pain

"I was startled by the realization that it's only in gathering [up our wounds, scars and torn places] and embracing them, placing them on the altar, that we can begin the process of transforming them. Pain can be sacred too." --Sue Monk Kidd


When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions. HarperSanFrancisco (1992). Page 25.

What Brings Bondage?

"Yielding to a wrong action until it becomes a habit one can't break brings bondage."

Stormie Omartian. Lord, I Want to Be Whole: The Power of Prayer and Scripture in Emotional Healing. Thomas Nelson Publishers: Nashville (2000). Page 80.

Sin and Brokenness Intact

"You...have been blinded by religious tradition and no longer recognize how profoundly you need to be freed by M. That's why you continue in heady unbelief. You ask me tricky questions in the hope of discounting Me, so you can remain unchanged. She submits herself to Me, sin and brokenness intact, and is changed for ever. She goes in peace, alive to Me, forgiven" (Luke 7:36-50, [Comiskey's] paraphrase). [My emphasis]





Andrew Comiskey. Pursuing Sexual Wholeness: How Jesus Heals the Homosexual. Creation House, Lake Mary, Florida (1989) page 58, 59.

When the Soul is Docile

When the soul is docile, and leaves itself to be purified and emptied of all that which it has of its own, opposite to the will of God, it finds itself by little and little detached from every emotion of its own, and placed in a holy indifference, wishing nothing but what God does and wills.


Jeanne Guyon: An Autobiography. Witaker House, New Kensington, PA (1997). Page 51.
(Madame Guyon lived from 1647 to 1717)

Unforgiveness and Human Ills

"Doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists all have noted that the vast majority of human ills are related to repressed attitudes of bitterness, resentment, unforgiveness, hate, anger, self-pity and self-centeredness." --Jack Hayford



Living the Spirit Formed Life: Growing in the 10 Principles of Spirit-Filled Discipleship. Regal: Ventura, California (2001) page 80.

Incubating Pain

"Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new?" --Sue Monk Kidd


When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions. HarperSanFrancisco (1992). Page 25.