· 30 June 2005
If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.
« πλ | Detachment, Suffering »
· 29 June 2005
All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.
· 28 June 2005
The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
Just like Jesus to us, the Bride Groom…
· 27 June 2005
The stiller I am, the more everything moves in the immense vocabulary of being.
· 26 June 2005
The future has many names. For the fearful, it is the unknown; for the reckless, it is the adventure; for the pessimist, it is the unattainable; for the brave, it is opportunity.
« πλ | Motivation »
· 25 June 2005
Acocdrnig to an Elgnsih unviesitry sutdy, the oredr of letetrs in a wrod dosen’t mttaer. The olny thnig thta is iopmrantt is that the frsit and lsat ltteer of eevry word is in the crcreot ptoision. The rset can be jmbueld and one is stlil able to raed the txet wiohtut dclftfuiiy. (Of cuorse, cotnext is ipmortnat too.)
Semes naroml to me ;)
« πλ | Observation »
· 24 June 2005
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
· 22 June 2005
Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind?
· 21 June 2005
As the island of our knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
· 20 June 2005
A life’s worth, in the end, isn’t measured in hours or dollars. It’s measured by the amount of love exchanged along the way.
· 19 June 2005
To a worm, digging in the hard ground is more relaxing than going fishing.
« πλ | Observation »
· 18 June 2005
The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God’s sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.
We too often want to make it an either/or issue. It is difficult for us to see it as and/both.
· 17 June 2005
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
· 16 June 2005
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
« πλ | Observation »
· 15 June 2005
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native goodwill, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.
· 14 June 2005
Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
« πλ | Observation »
· 13 June 2005
God never forces himself upon us or works in us beyond what we are willing to allow him to do. If we do not grow in love, it is not because his love for us is limited, but because we set limits to what his love can do in us.
· 12 June 2005
God’s command to us is not “make yourself perfect,” but “be made” perfect. The love, even for your enemies, which Jesus commands is not our work but his work in us. That makes all the difference.
· 11 June 2005
The real conflict is not “God vs. no God,” but rather love vs. hate.
· 10 June 2005
The whole purpose of prayer is to know, to possess and be possessed by God.
· 8 June 2005
The time will surely come when the well of our imagination runs dry and we must either be convinced that God is not the image we have of him or else we will take the loss of the image for the loss of God himself—and we will be tempted to abandon prayer as a hopeless endeavor.
· 7 June 2005
The mark of a good prayer life is not abundant consolation, but growth in the virtues.
· 6 June 2005
Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes.
· 5 June 2005
When you see Jesus as your Treasure, the Spirit has blown through your heart.
· 4 June 2005
People still often say how they read something or do something “religiously,” presumably to mean “without fail” or “with dedication”—for instance, “I read your blog religiously,” or “I’ll administer these medicines religiously” (to take two real examples I’ve run across recently). But shouldn’t it, for most people, mean “reluctantly, twice a year”?
« πλ | Observation »
· 3 June 2005
Don’t worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.
« πλ | Observation »
· 2 June 2005
Fallen man is a criminal who cannot be redeemed by any human means because such redemption would only lead to destruction in some other form.
In other words, you can’t save yourself; only God can. The trick then is to let Him. Let go; let God.
· 1 June 2005
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
« πλ | Observation »
May God’s love,
peace, and energy
touch you in faith.
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