And now, with God's help, I shall become myself. -

Soren Kierkegaard Soren Kierkegaard May 13th, 2008
 

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

CS Lewis Mere Christianity May 9th, 2008
 

Any time that is not spent on love is wasted

Tasso  Tasso April 15th, 2008
 

If you cannot cherish what it is the Lord is doing in your life, at least do NOT waste what He is doing in your life.

Celtic Prayer Book  Celtic Daily Prayer: Prayers and Readings From the Northumbria Community April 29th, 2008
 

Remember you do not abide but rather pass through this life. You are not in a home, but on a train that takes you to death. Remember only your body will die and only the spirit is truly alive.

Leo Tolstoy Tolstoy April 29th, 2008
 

He's living so simply he's creating a lot of work for the rest of us.

Gandhi Friend About Gandhi  April 12th, 2008
 

Look at a group of prisoners in shackles. They are all sentenced to death. Some are executed, while others watch. Those who survive see all this and become terrified. This is the life of men who do not understand the meaning of life

Leo Tolstoy Wise Thoughts For Everyday April 29th, 2008
 

Art thou not, Jesus, busy like to us? Thee shall I image as one sitting still, Ordering all things in thy potent will, Silent, and thinking ever to thy Father, Whose thought through thee flows multitudinous? Or shall I think of thee as journeying, rather, Ceaseless through space, because thou everything dost fill?

George MacDonald, Is Jesus BUSY?, Diary of an Old Soul April 22nd, 2008
 

The mark of a saint is a burning interest in and love for other souls.

Evelyn Underhill The Ways of the SPirit March 21st, 2008
 

The human being was created for this end: to praise, reverence and serve the Lord... I come from God. I belong to God. I am destined for God.

St. Ignatius The Ways of the Spirit Evelyn Underhill March 23rd, 2008
 

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

GK Chesterton  March 21st, 2008
 

Are all saints crazy? Or, do you have to be crazy to be a saint? Joy Behar, a panelist on ABC's "The View," said potential saints are medicated out of a job. "I have a theory," she said, "that you can't find any saints any more because of psychotropic medication. "I think that in the old days the saints were hearing voices, and they didn't have any Thorazine to calm them down." Behar continued. "Now that we have all this medication available to us, you can't find a saint anymore."

Joy Behar,PHYLLIS ZAGANO, RNS January 16th, 2008
 

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer  April 3rd, 2008
 

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world... The greatest man in history was the poorest... Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson,American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882,  February 1st, 2008
 

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

Hans Urs von Balthasar  April 3rd, 2008
 

Heaven have mercy on us all... Presbyterians and Pagans alike, for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending."

Herman Melville Moby Dick April 11th, 2008
 

Seasons of joy, seasons of sorrow, times when the Lord is so real it seems any activity you undertake is a spiritual experience. Seasons of dryness, when things are so bleak that even a plateful of Sinai sand would be considered a feast! And not these seasons fom the hand of God? If so, what is His goal in the matter? He is taking you to a place where you can be a man for all seasons.

Celtic Prayer Book  Celtic Prayer Book April 21st, 2008
 

An unbeliever is not someone who doesn't believe what he has been taught, but someone who says he believes when he doesn't.

Leo Tolstoy Wise Thoughts For Everyday May 2nd, 2008
 

I remember as a young Christian when I got my first awful, wonderful, entrancing vision of God. I was in West Virginia in the woods sitting on a log reading the Scriptures along with an old Irish evangelist by the name of Robert J. Cunningham, now long in heaven. I go; up and wandered away to have prayer by myself. I had been reading one of the driest passages imaginable from the Scriptures where Israel came out of Egypt and God arranged them into a diamond-shaped camp. He put Levi in the middle and Reuben out in front and Benjamin behind. It was a diamond-shaped moving city with a flame of fire in the middle giving light. Suddenly it broke over me; God is a geometrician, He's an artist! When He laid out that city He laid it out skillfully, diamond-shaped with a plume in the middle, and it suddenly swept over me like a wave of the sea: how beautiful God is and how artistic and how poetic and how musical, and I worshiped God there under that tree all by myself. You know after that I began to love the old hymns and I have been a lover of the great hymns ever since.

A.W. Tozer Worship The Missing Jewel May 9th, 2008
 

It is a curious thing that human beings spend so much energy denying their own spiritual and rational nature. No other being tries with such effort to deny that it is what it is. No dog or horse would ever try to show that it is not a dog or horse but only a mixture of matter, force, and accident. Man’s attempt to deny his own spirituality is itself a spiritual act, one that transcends space, time, and the limitations of matter. The motivations behind this self-denial are mystifying indeed.

Robert Sokolowski Soul and the Transcendent Meaning of Persons. May 9th, 2008