Archive for the ‘quotable’ Category
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Haunted House
All houses wherein men have lived and died
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On Waiting..
Timely advice, just when I was wishing things would move more quickly..
The Slow Work of God… read on
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Take on Hope
My mother always told me: “Praise the Lord! Even through gritted teeth.” And no one describes better than Tolkien the grim resolution to continue on the way… read on
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Hold on Hope
A dear friend shared this song with me tonight. She told me it reminds her of her brother, who was killed several years ago… read on
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CS Lewis on Prayer
M: “I know how hard you’ve been praying, and God’s answering your prayers.”
Lewis: “That’s not why I pray. I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It hasn’t changed God, it’s changed me.”
… read on
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Marry for Love
“Very few people ever state properly the strong argument in favour of marrying for love or against marrying for money.… read on
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a word from Balthasar:
It is possible for us to hear the word of God because God’s world is open to us. Most Christians do not realize that this is by no means a matter of course, but a miracle of the Father’s utterly free love. Every day it should astonish us anew, just as a lover is transported in bliss through the answering love of the woman he loves.… read on
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In This House of Brede
“Even at Vespers in these days Abbess Catherine, as if echoing the abbot’s words, thought, as the antiphon to the Magnificat was sung, of the Visitation, when the Virgin Mary, with the angel’s announcement beating in her heart, had gone “in haste,” as St. Luke says, to visit her far older cousin. … read on
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God has created…
a world big enough for all the lives He wishes to be born. It is only our hearts that are not big enough to want them and accept them…… read on
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The Golden Key
“You must not mind my asking you questions, for you may ask me the same questions, every one of them, and any others that you like. How old are you?”
“Ten,” answered Tangle.
“You don’t look like it,” said the lady.
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A Wind Sprang High in the West
…like a wave of unreasonable happiness, and tore eastward across England, trailing with it the frosty scent of forests and the cold intoxication of the sea. … read on