Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver
By Odilon Redon

“‘In the last days,’ God says,
‘I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and your daughters will prophesy,
And your young men will see visions,
And your old men will dream dreams.’”
Acts 2:17

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"We believe that we have a right to revelations, visions, and dreams from God, our Heavenly Father; and light and intelligence, through the gift of the Holy Ghost on all subjects pertaining to our spiritual welfare; if it so be that we keep his commandments, so as to render ourselves worthy in his sight." – Joseph Smith

“God is pleased sometimes to instruct and admonish men by dreams, opening their ears and minds, which in the day-time are shut by the noise and business of the world.” – Matthew Poole


"God has revealed many important instructions by means of dreams. When the outward organs of thought and perception are released from their activity, the nerves unstrung, and the whole of mortal humanity lies hushed in quiet slumbers, it is then that the spiritual organs are at liberty, in a certain degree, to assume their wonted functions. The spiritual organs are susceptible of converse with Deity, or of communion with angels." – Parley P. Pratt

“In a dream, and in slumberings upon the bed, God has ways of opening the ears of men, and sealing their instruction. God has immediate access to the spirits of men.” – Matthew Henry

“God's most gracious approaches are made to us when we are passive. In the hours of sleep, when the will is quiet and we are not drumming in His ears with our petitions, He sometimes gets access to us.” – Alexander Maclaren

“God comes to us disguised as our life. The whole point of contemplation is to allow God to work in us beyond what we can control, beyond the thinking mind, in that deep place that is akin to sleep itself.” – Richard Rohr

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