Love and Thunder
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. – G.K. Chesterton
The Only Choice that Matters
“Jesus didn’t come to make bad people good or good people better; Jesus came to make dead people alive!” – Lon Solomon
Fear and God
“I don’t fear God; I fear his believers.” – Stephen Hawking
Finding the Way
“What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else.”
— Margaret Atwood
Perfect Timing
“God is always on time. He’s never late and He is never early. His timing is perfect.” – Lon Solomon
Otherworldliness
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.
– Stephen Hawking
A New Normal
“God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of him. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice that utters it. But if I am true to the concept that God utters in me, if I am true to the thought of Him that I was meant to embody, I shall be full of his actuality and find him everywhere in myself, and find myself nowhere.” — Thomas Merton
The Thrice Omni God
Christ be with me, Christ within me,
Christ behind me, Christ before me,
Christ beside me, Christ to win me,
Christ to comfort and restore me.
Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ in quiet, and in danger,
Christ in hearts of all that love me,
Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.
– St. Patrick
The Treadmill of the Contemporary…
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” – E. E. Cummings
The Practical Pursuit of the Wrong Things
“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” – Stephen Covey