“Many people flock to places and persons who promise intensive experiences of togetherness, cathartic emotions of exhilaration and sweetness, and liberating sensations of rapture and ecstasy. In our desperate need for fulfillment and our restless search for divine intimacy, we are all too prone to construct our own spiritual events.” – Henri Nouwen The commercialism […]
“One imponderable trait of the human psyche is its ability to make irrational judgments about worthwhile human investments along with its refusal to view life in light of eternity.” – Brennan Manning Grace is the mantle we live under. It is by grace that we have access to the God of the Ages. The idea […]
“Nothing that we despise in the other man is entirely absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do and don’t do and more in the light of the way they suffer.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer You are fearfully and wonderfully made in the image of God. You […]
“The security center is such a lonely level of consciousness. When your consciousness is preoccupied with striving toward what you feel to be your security needs, you are more isolated from people than at any other level. And your energy will be at its lowest. When you are preoccupied with security, you are trapped in […]
“We have made the bitterness of the cross, the revelation of God in the cross of Jesus Christ, tolerable to ourselves by learning to understand it as a necessity for the process of salvation… As a result, the cross loses it’s arbitrary and incomprehensible character.” H. J. Inwand Jesus was the ultimate revolutionary. He was […]
“Satan’s desire is to turn me in on myself to the extent that I become enslaved and become a destructive force in community. The thrust from Jesus Christ is the opposite – to enhance my freedom so that I can become a creative force of love. It is the spirit of self-centeredness and selfishness versus […]
“The great mark of a Christian is what no other characteristic can replace, namely the example of a life which can be explained only in terms of God.” – Cardinal Emmanuel Célestin Suhard We see it on bracelets and cars. We see it in jokes in the media and the redefinition of what the letters […]
“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.” – Martin Luther King, Jr Amidst times of trials and troubles we have an ability to find refuge in the Father. This is the safe haven we see Christ seeking though out his ministry on earth. It is pivotal […]
“We are satisfied by our decent little life. We are pleased with our good habits; we take them for virtues. We are pleased with our little efforts; we take them for progress. We are proud of our activities; they make us think we are giving ourselves. We are impressed by our influence; we imagine it […]
“Many of us have been lying to ourselves for so long that our comforting illusions and rationalizations have assumed a patina of truth we clutch them to our hearts the way a child clutches a favorite teddy bear… there is no limit to the defenses we contrive against the in break of truth into our […]
