Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. |
Perhaps I am stronger than I think |
Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others. |
Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity. |
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real |
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real |
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real |
So Brother Matthew locked the gate behind me, and I was enclosed in the four walls of my new freedom. |
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it. |
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it. |
Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation. |
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. |
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. |
The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell, ... It is a body of oral messages, announcements, prophecies, promulgations, recitals, histories, songs of praise, lamentations, etc., which are meant either to be uttered or at least read aloud, or chanted, or sung, or recited in a community convoked for the purpose of a living celebration. |
The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is a body of oral messages, announcements, prophecies, promulgations, recitals, histories, songs of praise, lamentations, etc., which are meant either to be uttered or at least read aloud, or chanted, or sung, or recited in a community convoked for the purpose of a living celebration. |