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Quotables "The wonderful thing about Jesus
is that he not only meets us at church occasionally, but that he always goes
home with us." "Faith is the daring of the soul
to go farther than it can see." "The modern world was about the
dreams and promises of science, rationality, progress, and technology; about the
hope that human spirit and brainpower could solve all of the problems of
humankind and usher in a new era of peace, health and prosperity. These dreams
died in the wake of two world wars, countless local and ethnic conflicts, the
social upheaval of the sixties, a failed war on poverty, and the relational
disconnection of the Woodstock generation of Baby Boomers." "I was gratified to be able to
answer promptly. I said I don't know." "Since we cannot know all that
there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about
everything." "I don't know what your destiny
will be, but one thing I know: The only ones among you who will really be happy
are those who have sought and found how to serve." "The toughest task is to live
with unexpected, unwanted answers." "Faith is not something to grasp;
it is a state to grow into." "It's not the honors and not the
titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides
inside." "Don't be a proof texter; be a
truth tester. Don't take the Bible apart; take it wholly to your heart." "Love has brought a great many
people to safety when competency was exhausted." "The great spiritual question of
the 20th century is, 'To what can I surrender?'" "The wonderful thing about Jesus
is that he not only meets us at church occasionally, but that he always goes
home with us." "Faith is the daring of the soul
to go farther than it can see." Posted for April 2008 "You can have what you have only
by releasing it to others." "The desert fathers and mothers,
the mystics, the saints ... all were people who had tasted enough light that
they could risk the darkness." "Not everything that is faced can
be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." "The soul should always stand
ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience." "Prayer helps me analyze the
problem I face. Unfortunately, sometimes I go a long way down the road in a
quandary, suffering inside, before I finally ask myself, 'Why don't I talk to
God about it?'" "In prayer, it is better to have
a heart without words than words without a heart." "Our great joy is in pleasing our
Lord; no other joy in life is comparable." "Commonly, there are three stages
in work for God: "Impossible, Difficult, Done!"" "The will of God is always bigger
than what we bargain for." "We do not see things as they
are; We see things as we are." "No life of faith can be lived
privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others." "Give what you have: To someone,
it may be better than you dare to think." "The biggest disease today is not
leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted." "Many people mistake our work for
our vocation. Our vocation is the love of "To err is human; to blame it on
somebody else is even more human." "God is able to make a way out of
no way and transform dark yesterdays into "The day when God is ... silent
-- that is the beginning of prayer. Not when "At certain points in history,
God may lament the absence of laughter more Posted for Dec 2007 Updated: 03/21/08 |
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