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3. 1 Samuel 3:9.
Chapter 1: The Bravest Prayer
1. Maggie Koerth-Baker, “The Loudest Sound in the World Would Kill You on the Spot,” FiveThirtyEight, July 7, 2016, https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-loudest-sound-in-the-world-would-kill-you-on-the-spot/.
2. Decibel Equivalent Table, www.decibelcar.com/menugeneric/87.html.
3. Koerth-Baker, “Loudest Sound.”
4. Decibel Equivalent Table, www.decibelcar.com/menugeneric/87.html.
5. “Humpback Whales,” Journey North, www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/hwhale/SingingHumpback.html.
6. “Noise Sources and Their Effects,” www.chem.purdue.edu/chemsafety/Training/PPETrain/dblevels.htm.
7. Dr. Pete R. Jones, “What’s the Quietest Sound a Human Can Hear? (A.k.a. ‘“Why Omega-3 Fatty Acids Might Not Cure Dyslexia”’),” University College London, November 20, 2014, 1, www.ucl.ac.uk/~smgxprj/public/askscience_v1_8.pdf.
8. 1 Kings 19:11–12.
9. “1827. demamah,” Bible Hub, http://biblehub.com/hebrew/1827.htm.
10. Psalm 107:29.
11. Mark 4:39.
12. See 1 Kings 19:11–13.
13. Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest (Westwood, NJ: Barbour, 1963), August 13.
14. Chambers, My Utmost, August 13.
15. Ephesians 3:20.
16. Gordon Hempton, “The Last Quiet Places: Silence and the Presence of Everything,” interview by Krista Tippett, On Being, December 25, 2014, https://onbeing.org/programs/gordon-hempton-the-last-quiet-places-silence-and-the-presence-of-everything/.
17. Hempton, “Last Quiet Places.”
18. Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A. J. Krailsheimer (London: Penguin, 1995), 37.
19. Psalm 46:10.
20. “Audio Noise,” WhatIs.com, http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/audio-noise.
21. Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 187.
22. John Donne, “From a Sermon Preached 12 December 1626,” in John Donne: The Major Works, ed. John Carey (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 373.
23. Henri J. M. Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World (New York: Crossroad, 1992), 37.
24. Ella Morton, “How Long Could You Endure the World’s Quietest Place?” Slate, May 5, 2014, www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2014/05/05/orfield_laboratories_in_minneapolis_is_the_world_s_quietest_place.html and “The Quietest Place on Earth,” www.orfieldlabs.com/pdfs/chamber.pdf.
25. Acts 17:28.
26. See Psalms 91:2; 46:1; 91:1.
27. Psalm 32:7.
28. See Isaiah 54:17.
29. Matthew Guerrieri, The First Four Notes: Beethoven’s Fifth and the Human Imagination (New York: Vintage, 2012), 5.
30. Psalm 84:10.
31. Halvor Gregusson, “The Science Behind Task Interruption and Time Management,” Yast Blog, www.yast.com/time_management/science-task-interruption-time-management/.
32. Mark Batterson, The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2016).
Chapter 2: The Voice
1. Genesis 1:3.
2. Nola Taylor Redd, “How Fast Does Light Travel? The Speed of Light,” Space.com, May 22, 2012, www.space.com/15830-light-speed.html.
3. See 1 John 1:5.
4. Francesca E. Duncan et al., “The Zinc Spark Is an Inorganic Signature of Human Egg Activation,” Nature.com, April 26, 2016, www.nature.com/articles/srep24737.
5. Corey S. Powell, “January 1, 1925: The Day We Discovered the Universe,” Discover, January 2, 2017, http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/outthere/2017/01/02/the-day-we-discovered-the-universe/#.WNpS1BCwRTE.
6. “Hubble Reveals Observable Universe Contains 10 Times More Galaxies Than Previously Thought,” NASA, October 13, 2016, www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/hubble-reveals-observable-universe-contains-10-times-more-galaxies-than-previously-thought.
7. “Observable Universe,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe.
8. See Exodus 14; Joshua 10; Matthew 12:9–13; Matthew 21:18–19; John 2:1–11; Luke 18:35–43; John 11:38–44.
9. See Exodus 3; Numbers 22:21–31; Matthew 2:1–11; Daniel 5; Daniel 6; Daniel 3; Mark 4:35–41.
10. 1 John 4:16.
11. Song of Songs 5:16.
12. Rabbinic tradition is not on par with Scripture, but I find it to be a beautiful backdrop and a helpful way of gaining a better understanding of the Bible.
13. Hayim Nahman Bialik and Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, ed. The Book of Legends: Legends from the Talmud and Midrash, trans. William G. Braude (New York: Schocken Books, 1992), 80.
14. See Romans 2:4.
15. Matthew 3:17, KJV.
16. Leonard Bernstein, quoted in Leonard Sweet, Summoned to Lead (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004), 64–65.
17. Cornelius W. May, Shh…Listening for God: Hearing the Sacred in the Silent (Macedonia, OH: Xulon Press, 2011), 59.
18. Lewis Thomas, quoted in Marilyn Berger, “Lewis Thomas, Whose Essays Clarified the Mysteries of Biology, Is Dead at 80,” New York Times, December 4, 1993, www.nytimes.com/1993/12/04/obituaries/lewis-thomas-whose-essays-clarified-the-mysteries-of-biology-is-dead-at-80.html?pagewanted=all&mcubz=2.
19. Revelation 5:13, NLT.
20. Alfred A. Tomatis, The Ear and the Voice (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2005), 13.
21. See Isaiah 55:12.
22. “Hearing Range,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_range.
23. 2 Peter 3:8.
24. G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace, 2015), 12.
25. Psalm 36:5–6, MSG.
26. See Revelation 2:17.
27. Psalm 29:4.
28. Bialik and Ravnitzky, The Book of Legends, 80.
29. Ed Visvanathan, Am I a Hindu? The Hinduism Primer (New Delhi, India: Rupa, 1993).
30. Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 186.
31. Alfred A. Tomatis, The Conscious Ear: My Life of Transformation Through Listening (Barrytown, NY: Station Hill, 1991), 72.
32. Brandon Hatmaker, A Mile Wide: Trading a Shallow Religion for a Deeper Faith (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2016), 26–27.
33. Hatmaker, A Mile Wide, 28.
34. I first put my faith in Christ after a Sunday night showing of this film at a church in Minneapolis.
35. See Genesis 1:2.
36. A. W. Tozer, The Attributes of God, Volume 1 with Study Guide: A Journey into the Father’s Heart (Camp Hill, PA: WingSpread, 2007), 22.
37. Mark 7:34.
38. Tomatis, The Conscious Ear, 116.
39. Walker Meade, “Every Breath You Take,” Herald Tribune, January 12, 2010, www.heraldtribune.com/news/20100112/every-breath-you-take.
40. “Bidden or Not, God Is Present,” Redondo Writer’s Sacred Ordinary, February 4, 2008, http://redondowriter.typepad.com/sacredordinary/2008/02/bidden-or-not-b.html.
41. Christopher Forbes, “Images of Christ in the Nineteenth-Century,” Magazine Antiques 160, no. 6 (December 2001): 794.
42. “Veni Creator Spiritus,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veni_Creator_Spiritus.
Chapter 3: The Whispering Spot
1. “Dr. William Thornton,” Architect of the Capitol, www.aoc.gov/architect-of-the-capitol/dr-william-thornton.
2. “The First Cornerstone,” Architect of the Capitol, www.aoc.gov/first-cornerstone.
3. “Baltimore-Washington Telegrap
h Line,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore-Washington_telegraph_line.
4. “Abraham Lincoln and the U.S. Capitol,” Abraham Lincoln Online, www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/sites/uscapitol.htm.
5. History Matters, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5166/.
6. I fully understand that many historians take issue with the motivation behind Christopher Columbus’s epic journey, and it’s tough to discern true intent five hundred years after the fact. Was Columbus perfect? Far from it. But that doesn’t change that he knelt and prayed as an act of consecration upon discovering the New World.
7. “Car of History Clock,” Architect of the Capitol, www.aoc.gov/art/other/car-history-clock.
8. See Genesis 13:18.
9. See Genesis 24.
10. See Genesis 28:10–22.
11. See Exodus 3:2.
12. See Joshua 5:2–9.
13. See Judges 6:11.
14. See 1 Samuel 3.
15. See 1 Samuel 22:1.
16. See 1 Kings 18.
17. See Esther 2.
18. See Ezekiel 1:1.
19. See Daniel 6:10.
20. See Jonah 2.
21. I first discovered this story at the Hillsong Conference in New York City, August 3, 2016. Printed on the inside cover of the conference brochure was the following citation: “As told by Rev. Dr. Gordon Noyes A.C.—Wesley Mission.”
22. Dan Graves, “John Wesley’s Heart Strangely Warmed,” Christianity.com, www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1701-1800/john-wesleys-heart-strangely-warmed-11630227.html.
23. Luke 24:17.
24. Luke 24:32.
25. See Colossians 3:15.
26. See Philippians 4:7 and 1 Peter 1:8, KJV.
27. Matthew 11:15.
28. See Exodus 21:2.
29. Exodus 21:6.
30. Online Etymology Dictionary, s.v. “obey,” www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=obey.
31. José Ortega y Gasset, Man and Crisis, trans. Mildred Adams (New York: W. W. Norton, 1958), 94.
32. Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 177.
33. Ackerman, A Natural History, 181.
34. “Inverse Square Law, Sound,” HyperPhysics, http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Acoustic/invsqs.html.
35. Isaiah 55:11.
36. Exodus 33:11.
37. See Numbers 13.
38. Sigurd Olson, quoted in David Hendy, Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening (New York: Harper Collins, 2013), 20.
39. Marina Slayton and Gregory W. Slayton, Be the Best Mom You Can Be: A Practical Guide to Raising Whole Children in a Broken Generation (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2015), 166.
40. “Thomas Edison,” World-Wide-Matel, http://johnsonmatel.com/blog1/2011/05/post_80.html.
41. Bell Homestead, www.bellhomestead.ca/Pages/default.aspx.
42. Mason Currey, “Rise and Shine: The Daily Routines of History’s Most Creative Minds,” Guardian, October 5, 2013, www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/05/daily-rituals-creative-minds-mason-currey.
43. Mason Currey, Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (New York: Knopf, 2016), 17.
44. March 23, 2014.
45. See Acts 16:16–40.
46. See 2 Samuel 6:14–15.
47. Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, Classic Edition (Grand Rapids: Discovery House, 2014), June 13.
Chapter 4: Sign Language
1. Charlotte Gray, Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell (New York: HarperCollins, 2006), 73.
2. Gray, Reluctant Genius, 124.
3. “The 20 Most Influential Americans of All Time,” Time, July 24, 2012, http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/07/25/the-20-most-influential-americans-of-all-time/slide/alexander-g-bell/.
4. Gray, Reluctant Genius, 137–38.
5. Gray, Reluctant Genius, 138.
6. Gray, Reluctant Genius, 159.
7. Hebrews 1:1.
8. Daniel 5:25.
9. See Numbers 22.
10. John 14:6.
11. See Philippians 2:10–11.
12. Howard Gardner, Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (New York: Basic Books, 2011).
13. Thomas Armstrong, Seven Kinds of Smart: Identifying and Developing Your Multiple Intelligences (New York: Plume, 1993), 67.
14. “Zacharias Dase,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharias_Dase.
15. Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything (New York: Penguin Books, 2009), 34.
16. See Hebrews 12:5–11.
17. Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 191.
18. Ackerman, Natural History, xviii.
19. Philip Yaffe, “The 7% Rule: Fact, Fiction, or Misunderstanding,” Ubiquity 2011, (October 2011), http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=2043156.
20. 2 Timothy 3:16.
21. 1 Corinthians 2:14.
22. See Matthew 27:19.
23. See Ephesians 2:10.
24. See Proverbs 16:9.
25. See Romans 8:28.
26. See Genesis 39.
27. Alfred A. Tomatis, The Conscious Ear: My Life of Transformation Through Listening (Barrytown, NY: Station Hill, 1991), 70.
28. “Language Acquisition—The Basic Components of Human Language, Methods for Studying Language Acquisition, Phases in Language Development,” StateUniversity.com, http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2153/Language-Acquisition.html.
29. “Language Acquisition,” Encyclopedia.com, www.encyclopedia.com/literature-and-arts/language-linguistics-and-literary-terms/language-and-linguistics/language.
30. “Language Acquisition,” Encyclopedia.com.
31. Queen, “We Will Rock You,” News of the World, copyright © 1977, Sony/ATV Music Publishing.
Chapter 5: The Key of Keys
1. “Letter from George Washington to John Augustine Washington (July 18, 1755),” Encyclopedia Viriginia, www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Letter_from_George_Washington_to_John_Augustine_Washington_July_18_1755#.
2. See John 1:14.
3. Ronald W. Clark, Einstein: The Life and Times (New York: Avon Books, 1971).
4. Clark, Einstein, 755.
5. Hebrews 4:12, ESV.
6. 2 Timothy 3:16.
7. Lawrence Kushner, Eyes Remade for Wonder (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 1998), 50.
8. I recognize that this is a debatable statement. There are apparent contradictions in Scripture, but in my opinion, they are resolvable in a wide variety of ways. This book doesn’t provide the scope for me to give an in-depth apologetic, but I hope that skeptical readers will continue reading even if they disagree with me.
9. “Charles Haddon Spurgeon,” Goodreads, www.goodreads.com/quotes/397346-a-bible-that-s-falling-apart-usually-belongs-to-someone-who?page=3.
10. J. I. Packer, quoted in “Time with God: An Interview with J. I. Packer,” Knowing & Doing, C. S. Lewis Institute, September 26, 2008, www.cslewisinstitute.org/webfm_send/351.
11. 1 Corinthians 8:1.
12. Luke 4:3.
13. Deuteronomy 8:3.
14. 2 Timothy 2:15, KJV.
15. Romans 8:11, KJV.
16. Joshua 1:3.
17. Psalm 119:25, KJV.
18. Matthew 27:5.
19. Luke 10:37.
20. C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed (New York: HarperOne, 2001), 69.
21. See John 3:16.
22. Anna Ba
rtlett Warner and William Batchelder Bradbury, “Jesus Loves Me,” 1860.
23. Hebrews 4:12.
24. Psalm 119:11, KJV.
25. C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, illus. by Chris Van Allsburg (New York: HarperCollins, 2008).
26. Philippians 4:13, NKJV.
27. 1 Corinthians 2:9–10, NLT.
28. John 1:12, NASB.
29. Genesis 1:3.
30. See Isaiah 55:11, KJV.
31. See Jeremiah 1:12.
32. John 15:7, ESV.
33. The Physics Factbook: An Encyclopedia of Scientific Essays, http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2004/SamanthaCharles.shtml.
34. “Alpha Wave,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_wave.
35. G. K. Chesterton, quoted in Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives (New York: HarperOne, 1999), 1.
36. Peter Marshall, Mr. Jones, Meet the Master: Sermons and Prayers of Peter Marshall (Grand Rapids: Revell, 1982), 143.
Chapter 6: The Voice of Gladness
1. Ken Robinson, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?,” filmed February 2006, TED video, 19:24, www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.
2. Robinson, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?”
3. Robinson, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?”
4. Abraham Maslow, quoted in Jim Cathcart, The Acorn Principle: Know Yourself, Grow Yourself (New York: St. Martins, 1999), 115.
5. Psalm 37:4.
6. C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory (New York: HarperOne, 2001), 26.
7. Lewis, Weight of Glory, 26.
8. See Genesis 1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, 31.
9. Walter A. Elwell, Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1996), s.v. “good, goodness.”
10. “Westminster Shorter Catechism with Proof Texts,” Center for Reformed Theology and Apologetics, www.reformed.org/documents/wsc/index.html?_top=http://www.reformed.org/documents/WSC.html.
11. Matthew 6:33.
12. Philippians 3:8.
13. “Eric Liddell—Olympic Athlete and Missionary to China,” January 5, 2015, http://blog.truthforlife.org/eric-liddell-olympic-athlete-and-missionary.