December 2011
96 posts
“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.”
– Benjamin Franklin (via brodienomore)
“We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling...”
– Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water (via invisibleforeigner)
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Fun, fish and fellowship →
“Love is distinct from desire… Because its aim is not satisfaction, but being.”
– Jacques Lacan, Seminar I, trans. John Forrester (via proustitute)
“Maybe it’s time for Christians all over the world to lay down the flags of their...”
– Shane Claiborne, Jesus for President (via dancewmoonlight)
“There, on the fringe of society,” writes Gustavo Gutiérrez, the Word became...”
– The Logic of the Incarnation | Ekklesia Project (via mshedden)
Invisible Foreigner: Sam Wells, "Christmas Needs... →
invisibleforeigner:
This is Christianity: not some set of disembodied ideals and noble values, but the life shaped around the logic of God in a human form, at Christmas found in a tiny crying baby, on Good Friday found in a naked man hanging on a cross, on Easter Day found in the wonder of a man defeating death and…
“And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
By the...”
– T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets (Little Gidding)
Invisible Foreigner: St. John Chrysostom's... →
invisibleforeigner:
Behold a new and wondrous mystery. My ears resound to the Shepherd’s song, piping no soft melody, but chanting full forth a heavenly hymn. The Angels sing. The Archangels blend their voice in harmony. The Cherubim hymn their joyful praise. The Seraphim exalt His glory. All join to praise this holy…
“So to help you out, here’s a quick colloquial abridgement of Barth’s whole...”
– Faith and Theology: Karl Barth for beginners (via mshedden)
“Truly He taught us to love one another,
His law is love and His gospel is...”
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“Worship is the natural overflow of those who, with humble and grateful heart,...”
– Joan Chittister, The Liturgical Year (via sethhaines)
“You should not look a gift universe in the mouth.”
– G.K. Chesterton (via invisibleforeigner)
Re-creation and Re-connecting →
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Desmond Tutu to Trinity Church: let Occupy stay! →
Yours is a voice for the world not just the neighborhood of Duarte Park . Injustice , unfairness , and the strangle hold of greed which has beset humanity in our times must be answered with a resounding , ” No !” You are that answer . I write this to you not many miles away from the houses of the poor in my country . It pains me despite all the progress we have made . You see, the...
“God is not a symbol of goodness. Goodness is a symbol of God.”
– G.K. Chesterton (via invisibleforeigner)
Quantum computing with off the shelf holographic... →
“There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just...”
– Lemony Snicket (via dodds-)
“Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is...”
– Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality: an Essay in Cosmology (2nd Ed., 1979), p. 339 (via veareflejos)
“Poetry is both more philosophical and more serious than history; for poetry...”
– Aristotle (via veareflejos)
“Tradition is not a dead load which we drag along with us, and which in our...”
– -Gustaf Hellström of the Swedish Academy, in his remarks prior to T. S. Eliot’s banquet speech for The Nobel Prize in Literature 1948
(via veareflejos)
“Indeed, beauty is one of mankind’s greatest needs; it is the root from which the...”
– Benedict XVI (via triadic)
“The radical conversion of the heart, the U-turn of the mind which the New...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks (via dgerm)
I agree - I wrote something similar, although much less articulate, in my book ‘Transform your work life’. In Chapter 8 I gave some thought to Luke 10 and the manner in which Jesus encourages his disciples to engage persons and...
“If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via theorthodoxheretic)
Col 3.23 - expressed beautifully in the words of Martin Luther King Jr.
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