“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 […]
Fortunately for us, God has a way of taking our question marks and straightening them out into exclamation points.” – Philip De Courcy When waters of life begin to get rapid, when the shores are lined with jagged rocks, when we come to what we feel is the edge of a precipice with the infinite […]
“Christians are a source of hope to the extent that others can find in them a source of strength and joy.” – Brennan Manning The world is in the balance at the moment. Times are tough and people are realigning what is important. Anxieties are high, and opinions and criticisms are being tossed about. We […]
“Quit keeping score altogether and surrender yourself with all your sinfulness to God who sees neither the score nor the score-keeper, but only his child redeemed by Christ.” – Thomas Merton We live in a society which is obsessed with freedoms. More appropriately we are experiencing a culture which is preoccupied with a distorted realization […]
“Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? – Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire on love; and at this hour millions would die for Him.” – Napoleon Bonaparte Love – Love has been largely manipulated word in our society. We have aligned it […]
“Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take; the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally. It is in taking the risk that we rediscover our dignity. To bring the truth to ourselves, just as we are, to God, just as God is, is the most […]
“Many people flock to places and persons who promise intensive experiences of togetherness, cathartic emotions of exhilaration and sweetness, and liberating sensations of rapture and ecstasy. In our desperate need for fulfillment and our restless search for divine intimacy, we are all too prone to construct our own spiritual events.” – Henri Nouwen The commercialism […]
“One imponderable trait of the human psyche is its ability to make irrational judgments about worthwhile human investments along with its refusal to view life in light of eternity.” – Brennan Manning Grace is the mantle we live under. It is by grace that we have access to the God of the Ages. The idea […]
“Nothing that we despise in the other man is entirely absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do and don’t do and more in the light of the way they suffer.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer You are fearfully and wonderfully made in the image of God. You […]
“The security center is such a lonely level of consciousness. When your consciousness is preoccupied with striving toward what you feel to be your security needs, you are more isolated from people than at any other level. And your energy will be at its lowest. When you are preoccupied with security, you are trapped in […]
