Spirituality - Quotes
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Thursday, June 9th, 2005Do not be irritated or angry when someone corrects you, turning you from evil to goodness. Sometimes we do wrong without knowing it because we are double-minded: we can deceive ourselves into thinking that evil is good. Equally do not be irritated or angry when you see sinful people enjoying great welath and luxury. They […]
CS Lewis on Prayer
Thursday, June 9th, 2005This is a poem by CS Lewis entitled Footnote to All Prayers
He whom I bow to only knows to whom I bowWhen I attempt the ineffable Name, murmuring Thou,And dream of Pheidian fancies and embrace in heartSymbols (I know) which cannot be the thing Thou art.Thus always, taken at their word, all prayers blasphemeWorshipping with […]
Seneca on Life, Good, and Evil
Thursday, June 9th, 2005Life is neither a good nor an evil; it is simply the place where good and evil exist.Seneca
CS Lewis on Unanswered Questions
Friday, May 13th, 2005Lewis in the following explains that perhaps there are questions that we don't have, or may never even, have the answers to, and that maybe perhaps that isn't the point.
There are questions at issue between Christians to which I do not think we have been told the answer. There are some to which I may […]
Kimberly Johnson on Apologies
Tuesday, April 26th, 2005Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
-Kimberly Johnson
Reinhold Niebuhr - a Prayer
Wednesday, April 13th, 2005God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things that I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardship as the pathway to peace. Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it […]
Coincidence Church Sign
Tuesday, March 8th, 2005Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.
Byron on Solitude
Monday, March 7th, 2005“In solitude, where we are least alone”
Lord Byron
Nouwen on Solitude
Monday, March 7th, 2005“Solitude is the furnace of transformation”
Henri Nouwen
Sertillanges on Solitude
Monday, March 7th, 2005“Prophets, apostles, preachers, martyrs, pioneers of knowledge, inspired artists in every art, ordinary men and the Man-God, all pay tribute to loneliness, to the life of silence, to the night.”
A.G. Sertillanges