“I hope as much from the justice of God as from his mercy. It is because He is just that He is compassionate and full of tenderness… for He knows our weakness. He remembers that we are dust. As a father has tenderness for his children, so the Lord has compassion for us. What a […]
“The illusion of control is truly pathetic, but it is also hilarious. Deciding what I need most out of life, carefully calibrating my next move, and generally allowing my autonomous self to run amok inflates my sense importance and reduces the God of my incredible journey to the role of spectator from the sidelines.” – […]
“Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexplained tears, it is well to pay close attention. They are not only telling you something about the secret of who you are, but more often than not, God is speaking to you through them of the mystery of where you have come from and is summoning […]
“May all of your expectations be frustrated. May all of your plans be thwarted. May all of your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing and dance in the love of God who is Father, Son and Spirit.” – Larry Hein Intention, expectation and […]
“I never asked God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder and He gave it to me.” – Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel What is miraculous these days? What levels have we achieved in solidifying our concrete understanding of an ever-changing, ever-amazing universe? Have we progressed too far in turning theories […]
A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, Do it again; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not […]
“When my thinking about God is correct, consistent and focused, I am, in some way, thinking correctly about everything else. When my thinking about God is incorrect, inconsistent or disjointed, I am thinking incorrectly about everything else in my life. More than anything else, I need a right view of God.” – Fil Anderson One […]
“Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words; wait and hope.” – Alexandre Dumas The story of the Count of Monte Cristo shows us a man consumed with the details of discouragement in his present circumstances. Edmond Dantès is a […]
“The Pharisee within usurps my true self whenever I prefer appearances to reality, whenever I am afraid of God, whenever I surrender control of my soul to rules rather than risk living in union with Jesus, when I choose to look good and not be good; when I prefer appearances to reality. – Brennan Manning […]
“Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness” – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy There is an immense joy in the Spirit of the Lord. C.S. Lewis contends that God is the most joyful being who has ever […]
