Spirituality - Quotes
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2005One can easily understand a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when grown men and women are afraid of the light.
Plato
Willard on Self-Importance
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005From Dallas Willard:
There is nothing that requires more energy of the typical American Christian than the discipline of doing nothing. The hardest thing you can get anyone to do is to do nothing. We are addicted to our world, addicted to talk. Talk is the primary way we have of managing our image for ourselves […]
Blumhardt on Humility and Connectedness
Friday, October 7th, 2005If you are truly humble, you will always be ready to seek (and accept!) help from others. The present genteel, self-loving brand of piety assumes, “I don?t need anybody; I can set things right with God myself.” But as long as you quietly try to work out your own salvation, you won?t get anywhere. Only […]
Pascal on Religion
Monday, October 3rd, 2005Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.Blaise Pascal
Peter Davids on True Knowledge
Thursday, September 22nd, 2005No matter how extensive one's scriptural knowledge, how amazing one's memory, it is self deception if that is all there is. True knowledge is the prelude to action, and it is the obedience to the word that counts in the end.
Peter Davids
John Paul II on Abortion, 1999
Tuesday, September 20th, 2005The conflict is between a culture that affirms, cherishes, and celebrates the gift of life, and a culture that seeks to declare entire groups of human beings - the unborn, the terminally ill, the handicapped, and others considered “unuseful” - to be outside the boundaries of legal protection.
John Paul II, 1999
John Paul II on Abortion, 1996
Tuesday, September 20th, 2005A nation that kills its own children is a nation without hope.
John Paul II, 1996
Julie Polter on Connectedness
Thursday, September 8th, 2005This is the big lie the world tells us: that the universe is connected by trade agreements, electronic banking, computer networks, shipping lanes, and the seeking of profit - nothing else. Whereas this is the truth of God: all creation is one holy web of relationships, and gifts meant for all; that creation vibrates with […]
Churchill on Hell
Friday, July 22nd, 2005If you're going through hell, keep going.Winston Churchill
Martin Luther on Raising Children
Friday, June 17th, 2005I agree with the following 100%. It really makes me think twice about the mundane, which is an oft-ignored part of Luther's legacy…
What then does Christian faith say to this? It opens its eyes, looks upon all these insignificant, distasteful and despised duties in the spirit, and is aware that they are all adorned with […]