Thursday, September 30, 2021

Thought for today

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8 The Lord’s word came to Zechariah: 9 The Lord of heavenly forces proclaims: Make just and faithful decisions; show kindness and compass...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

A different fast

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Some men go wIthout knowing on a hunger strike in the prison of the mind, starving for God. There is joy, ancient and sudden, in this starvi...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Faith as humility

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Faith is an act of spirit. The spirit can afford to acknowledge the superiority of the divine: it has the fortitude to realize the greatness...
Monday, September 27, 2021

More than meets the brain!

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The realm toward which faith is directed can be approached, but not penetrated; approximated, but not entered; aspired to, but not grasped; ...
Sunday, September 26, 2021

Thought for the day

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εἶπεν δὲ πρὸς αὐτούς· ὁρᾶτε καὶ φυλάσσεσθε ἀπὸ πάσης πλεονεξίας, ὅτι οὐκ ἐν τῷ περισσεύειν τινὶ ἡ ζωὴ αὐτοῦ ἐστιν ἐκ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων αὐτῷ. Lu...
Friday, September 24, 2021

Remembrance

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Faith is not a stagnant pool. It is, rather, a fountain that rises with the influx of personal experience. Personal faith flows out of an ex...
Thursday, September 23, 2021

Faith? Yes, but

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Faith implies no denial of evil, no disregard of danger, no whitewashing of the abominable. He whose heart is given to faith is mindful of t...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

But it requires vigilance…

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Faith is always exposed to failure. We often submit to the forces that draw us down to where a small desire seems to outweigh the noblest as...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

The nature of faith

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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts. Audacious longing, calling, calling, burning songs, da...
Friday, September 17, 2021

You can't miss it … if you are looking for it, that is

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Forgoing beauty for goodness, power for love, grief for gratitude, entreating the Lord for help to understand our hopes, for strength to res...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Open yours eyes that you might see!

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He who chooses a life of utmost striving for the utmost stake, the vital, matchless stake of God, feels as though the spirit of God comes to...
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Impressions

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We are impressed by the towering buildings of New York City. Yet not the rock of Manhattan nor the steel of Pittsburgh but the law that came...
Monday, September 13, 2021

But do we learn?

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One of the greatest shocks that we experience in our childhood comes with the discovery that our deeds and desires are not always approved b...
Friday, September 10, 2021

Animals?

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Man is an animal at heart, carnal, covetous, selfish, and vain; yet spiritual in his destiny: a vision beheld by God in the darkness of flesh...
Thursday, September 09, 2021

The very being of humanity

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Man does not possess religion; he exists in religion. This religious existence precedes his religious experience. Creed and aspiration are ...
Wednesday, September 08, 2021

I have news for you: It's not about you!

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The desire of a pious man is not to acquire knowledge of God but to abide by him, to dedicate to him the entire life. How does he conceive t...
Tuesday, September 07, 2021

It's all around you!

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To restrict religion to the realm of human endeavor or consciousness would imply that a person who refuses to take notice of God could isola...
Monday, September 06, 2021

Hold it lightly

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Thus the pious man realizes, also, that whatever he may have at his disposal has been bestowed upon him as a gift. And there is a difference...
Friday, September 03, 2021

A sense of wonder

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In reality man has not unlimited powers over the earth, as he has not over stars or winds. He has not even complete power over himself. In t...
Thursday, September 02, 2021

Responsibility

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Responsibility implies freedom, and man, who is in bondage to environment, to social ties, to inner disposition, may yet enjoy freedom befor...