January 2012
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“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
Reflejos:
“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
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“Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes...”
– Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
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“Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance...”
– Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
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“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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“Prophetic speech, that is, the way God’s word impinges upon human history, is...”
– Walter Brueggemann
It's all about Jesus →
justsaskia:
“He came to set people free, calling the most unusual people out of their regular lives to lead the way towards freedom. ”
A must read!
“O God, we thank Thee for this universe, our great home; for its vastness and its...”
– Walter Rauschenbusch ‘even the thorn-bush by the wayside is aflame with the glory of God’ (Prayer) | gathering in light
“If we are identified with Christ, who identifies himself with the suffering of...”
– William T. Cavanaugh, Being Consumed
“But who can make that perfect response of love, that perfect act of penitence,...”
– James B. Torrance’s, Worship, Community and the Triune God of GraceChurch Music: Simultaneously the Bane and the Heart of Worship « Out of Bounds (via mshedden)
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“I believe that we ought so to love and trust God in our lives, and in all the...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer (via ayjay)
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“The praise of God which constitutes the community and its assemblies seeks to...”
– Karl Barth Church Music: Simultaneously the Bane and the Heart of Worship « Out of Bounds (via mshedden)
“When I think of the incredible, incomprehensible sweep of creation above me, I...”
– Madeleine L’Engle, The Irrational Season (via dmrichmon)
“It is impossible to flee from kitsch by taking refuge in religion, when religion...”
– Excerpted from “Kitsch and the Modern Predicament” by Roger Scruton, City Journal Winter 1999
(Highly recommend this long read.)
@sacredise I have a feeling you could have written this in your great book ‘The hour that changes everything’.
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“O God, sovereign Lord over all creation, without whom all purposes are futile,...”
– - A guide to prayer for all God’s people (Upper Room Books, 1990)
I am back at work today after a great vacation with my family. I am thankful for the privilege of having work. It is a blessing to be able to meet my family’s needs, to apply my abilities in service of the world, and to...
“It is our care of the helpless, our practice of loving kindness that brands us...”
– Tertullian, Apology, 39. (via hargaden)
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“Ah, so big a question! That is the whole question of theology, you see! I should...”
– Karl Barth, answering the question from a student, “What one thing, sir, would you tell a young pastor today if you were asked, is necessary in this day and age to pastor a Church?” Best advice I’ve read in a long time. (via wesleyhill)
“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that...”
– Vaclav Havel (via wooliebear)