A Surprising God – Quote of the Week

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Image by Greencolander via FlickrJust about the time I get dogmatic,Certain that I know it all,You upend what I thought was fact.Just about the time I drown in tears,You enter in with unmitigated joy.Just about the time I yawn in monotonyYou come dancing in with a lively step.Just about the time I think I know you,You turn up, show another side of yours,And there I am, surprised again.David Steindl-Rast … [Read more...]

Believing the Impossible – Quote of the Week

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Image via Wikipedia"One can't believe impossible things," Alice said. "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”Lewis CarrollThrough the Looking Glass, Chapter V … [Read more...]

A Prayer from St Augustine – Quote of the Week

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Image via WikipediaI beg of You, my God,let me know You and love You so that I may be happy in You.And though I cannot do this fully in this life, yet let me improve from day to day till I may do so to the full.Let me know You more and more in this life, that I may know You perfectly in heaven.Let me know You more and more here, so that I may love you perfectly there,so that my joy may be great in itself here, and complete in heaven with You.O Truthful God, let me receive the happiness of heaven, which You promise so that my joy may be full.In the meantime,let my mind think of it,let my tongue talk of it,let my heart long for it,let my mouth speak of it,let my soul hunger after it,let my flesh thirst after it,let my whole being desire it,until such time as I may enter through death into the joy of my Lord,
there to continue forever, world without end.Amen.St. Augustine … [Read more...]

How Close is God? Karl Rahner Quote of the Week

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Can it really be possible We are so tightly bondedthat our breath is one breath?Can it be You are intertwinedIn every thought of mine                             That steps into consciousness?Can it be that Your great loveForever mingles with my own?If so, I gladly lose myselfIn the closeness of Your presence.Karl Rahner … [Read more...]

Praying – Mother Teresa – Quote of the Week

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Image by Peta-de-Aztlan via FlickrDan Rather, CBS television interviewer, asked Mother Teresa of Calcutta: "When you pray, what do you say to God?" Teresa: "I don't say anything, I listen." Rather: "Well okay … when God speaks to you, then, what does he say?" Teresa: "He doesn't say anything. He listens. ... And if you don't understand that, I can't explain it to you.” … [Read more...]

Am I Ready? – Quote of the Week – Esther de Waal

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Image via Wikipedia“It is so easy to play the world’s game which is the power game, the game which depends on setting myself apart from others, distinguishing myself, seeking the limelight and looking for the applause.I find that it is only too easy to become compulsive in my continual need for affirmation, for more and more affirmation, as I anxiously ask Who am I? Am I the person who is liked? Admired? Praised? Seen as successful?My whole attitude towards myself becomes determined by the way in which others see me. I compare myself with others, and I try to emphasize what is different and distinctive about me. The three temptations which Christ faced in the wilderness are equally my temptations: to be pertinent. To be spectacular. To be powerful.Am I able, like Christ to put them down?Am I prepared to shed all these outer shells of false ambition, of pride?Am I ready to admit that the mask is a disguise put on to cover up the insecure self? And the armor a shield to protect the … [Read more...]