February 2012
18 posts
“She tells the story of Jason, a fourteen year old boy with profound intellectual...”
– Stanley Hauerwas Do Human Rights have a foundation in Hebrew and Christian Scriptures? – Opinion – ABC Religion & Ethics (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
“Our church has been fighting during these years only for its self-preservation,...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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“Christologies usually offered an image of Christ as a sublime abstraction....”
– Jon Sobrino - Jesus The Liberator: A Historical-Theological View (via jomcarlson)
(via waskommenmag)
“It seems to me that, as a contemplative, I do not need to lock myself into...”
– Thomas Merton, William Shannon, ed., The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns (New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1979)
“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and...”
– G.K. Chesterton (via invisibleforeigner)
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Wishes of youth and the winds of war - I was a... →
For the last week or so I have been reading Ranulph Fiennes amazing book ‘My Heroes’.
It tells the stories of various brave and courageous women and men who did extraordinary things in face of great danger and hardship. The story that most moved me was that of hotelier Paul Rusesabagina - the man who saved just over a thousand Rwandans from the genocide that ripped that nation in...
“Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid...”
– Sydney Smith, Lecture IX : On the Conduct of the Understanding (via triadic)
“For Jesus, ‘kingdom’ carried the weight of his entire eschatology, and he...”
– Scot McKnight, The King Jesus Gospel (via invisibleforeigner)
“It is as tragic as it is ridiculous to see Christians today giving up this...”
– Hans Urs von Balthasar, Love Alone is Credible (via invisibleforeigner)
“The paradox of the human condition is that nothing is so contrary to us as the...”
– Frithjof Schuon, Echoes of Perennial Wisdom. Courtesy of One Cosmos and Whiskey River.
(via crashinglybeautiful)
“For a little context of what we are doing and why we are doing what we are...”
– What is a Spiritual Discipline? « The Twenty Pieces Project (via mshedden)
“Our lives are lived in relationship to words, written and spoken, sacred and...”
– Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies (via invisibleforeigner)
“I believe a strong woman
may be stronger than a man,
particularly if she...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via chopsueycinema)
January 2012
84 posts
“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the...”
– Vincent Van Gogh (via thelittleyellowdiary)
“I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.”
– J.D. Salinger (via kmaynard)
“A Prayer for Concluding Prayers Speak to me, Lord; help me to listen; make me to...”
– Resident Theology: Sunday Sabbath Poetry: A Prayer for Concluding Prayers (via mshedden)
“Remember, always remember, that the heartfelt desire to do the will of God is,...”
– Richard Rohr, Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps (via miketodd07)
“I more and more find the precious part of each day to be the thirty or forty...”
– Lesslie Newbigin (via wesleyhill)
“For where shall the likeness of God be found? There is no quality that space has...”
– Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath (via invisibleforeigner)
“A good sermon changes even known truth into profound realization.”
– Marilynne Robinson (via triadic)
“Solitude can also be found in the reading of poetry, in listening to music, in...”
– Paul Tillich, The Eternal Now, Scribners 1963, p. 22 (via waskommenmag)
“: הן יקטלני לא איחל אך דרכי אל פניו אוכיח”
“Though he...”
– Job 13:15 (via waskommenmag)
“We don’t need more larger-than-life leaders who conscript others to follow their...”
– Len Sweet, ‘I Am A Follower’ (175)
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death
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“If you board the wrong train it is no use running...
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- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Those that truly love, have roots that grow towards each other underground, and...”
– St. Augustine (via radioteopoli)
“When faced with the assaults of caprice, authenticity needs to lay hold of...”
– Aphorisms of Nicolás Gómez Dávila aka Don Colacho, #1902
“Verbs, I think, matter most. Asked for his name, God gave Moses a verb. And even...”
– Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
(via invisibleforeigner)
“Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes...”
– Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
(via liberumarbitriumindifferentiae)
“Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance...”
– Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
via invisibleforeigner (via veareflejos)
“On January 18, 2012, in an unprecedented decision, the Wikipedia community has...”
– Press releases/English Wikipedia to go dark - Wikimedia Foundation (via hayesstw)
“Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via firstbreath90)
“The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to...”
– Thomas Merton (via lovelydeen)
“One must dare to say that the goodness of Christ appears greater, more divine,...”
– Origen (via invisibleforeigner)
“Only God, taking manhood in Christ, becomes in one single Person both ‘subject...”
– Hans Urs von Balthasar, Mysterium Paschale (via invisibleforeigner)
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