James Fraser on the effectiveness of love

"You can hardly understand until you come into touch with them what simple, warm-hearted people the Shan and other Christians are. Sam Bwa told me that I could be of help to them even if I could say nothing ... the mere fact of your coming to see them, showing yourself genuinely pleased to sit with them in their houses, attend their services, share their food and generally make yourself one with them is enough to endear you to them ... If they see that you love them and like to be with them, they love you in return."

p41, Mountain Rain, The Biography of James O. Fraser

This feels like a definite hint on how to reach into the lives of people we meet everyday — just enjoy being with them.

Earlier loves eclipsed

A description of James Fraser's desires being turned upside down by the Holy Spirit as a young man:

"There is no record that he felt he had renounced anything. He had quite simply found earlier loves eclipsed by a new passion. 'If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him' (1 John 2:15)"

p7, Mountain Rain, The Biography of James O. Fraser

Love is...

"You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself"

Quote from 'The Marriage Book', Nicky & Sila Lee
Original Quote: Jean Anouilh, Adela, 1949

Richard Foster on Prayer & Compassion

"... the bible tells us that great miracles are possible through faith the size of a mustard seed. Usually, the courage actually to go and pray for a person is a sign of sufficient faith. Frequently out lack is not faith but compassion ... Compassion was an evident feature of every healing in the New Testament ... In fact, if we genuinely love people, we desire for them far more than it is within our power to give, and that will cause us to pray."
Celebration Of Discipline, Richard Foster, p49