February 2012
29 posts
“The mythology of “state-as-savior” and democratic control do not line up with...”
– Andy Alexis-Baker (‘The Myth of the State As Savior and Elections as Confession of Faith’)
“Faced with today’s problems and disappointments, many people will try to escape...”
– PJPII (via catholicapologetics)
“Let us love, since that is all our hearts were made for.”
– St. Thérèse de Lisieux (via gloria-in-excelsis)
“Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You...”
– Osho (via human-voices)
“It is true that, as the sixteenth-century St. Ignatius of Loyola put it, we...”
– Richard John Neuhaus, Catholic Matters (via invisibleforeigner)
“Which of us, walking through the twilight or retracing some day in our past, has...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, Paradiso (via human-voices)
“Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via human-voices)
“There arent really any mistakes in life. They might seem to knock you out of...”
– Bob Dylan 1976, From “No Direction Home” by Robert Shelton (via princess-steppenwolf)
“Only love creates.”
– St. Maximilian Kolbe (via ourladyg)
“We Christians confess in the Nicene Creed that we believe in “one, holy,...”
– Richard John Neuhaus, Catholic Matters (via invisibleforeigner)
“Anyone wishing to enter the place of Jesus’ birth has to bend down.
It seems to...”
– Pope Benedict XVI, Homily for Christmas Eve (via quaerere-deum)
“Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you...”
– George Balanchine (via sunflower-soul)
“The Lord has removed the judgment against you,” that is, your evil is no longer...”
– Fr. Julian Carron, “An Inexorable Positivity Dominates Life” (via quaerere-deum)
“The first condition to be able to educate a human being - children, the...”
– Luigi Giussani, Il miracolo dell’ospitalità (via quaerere-deum)
“Today, a particularly insidious obstacle to the task of educating is the massive...”
– Pope Benedict XVI (via quaerere-deum)
“The more we reduce faith to vague religiosity that serves primarily to energize,...”
– Miroslav Volf, A Public Faith, p. 40. (via hargaden)
“Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds...”
– William Wordsworth (via human-voices)
“It is vain for eloquent atheists to talk of the great truths that will be...”
– G.K. Chesterton in Orthodoxy (via gkchestertonquote)
“To sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more...”
– St. Joan of Arc (via shadesofsky)
“Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more...”
– Vincent Van Gogh (via thefutureoftheworldhangsonyes)
The Journey →
ardentquestions:
“Make me walk again I have wasted much time I didn’t think this journey would be like this I have met on the road Two-faced men Who wanted to steal my will and my courage
I no longer have a mother, nor a father And I am no better than them And grown children look at us, asking for a sign
When we…
The Journey →
ardentquestions:
“Make me walk again I have wasted much time I didn’t think this journey would be like this I have met on the road Two-faced men Who wanted to steal my will and my courage
I no longer have a mother, nor a father And I am no better than them And grown children look at us,…
“I paint very large pictures. I realize that historically the function of...”
– Mark Rothko (via thefutureoftheworldhangsonyes)
“Where the humanity of God appears, his kindness can no longer be hidden.”
– St. Bernard of Clairvaux (via quaerere-deum)
“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
– Ray Bradbury (via girlwithoutwings)
Watchlittlest angel (repost)
“We live under the illusion that if we can acquire complete control, we can...”
– Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water (via invisibleforeigner)
“Behold, this child is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to...”
– Luke, chapter 2 (via quaerere-deum)
January 2012
34 posts
“The method the Mystery has used to give Himself, to reveal Himself to His...”
– Don Giussani
“With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this
Calling
We shall not...”
– T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets (Little Gidding)
“Saints are those who exaggerate what the world has forgotten.”
– G. K. Chesterton (via estelada)
“There is the great lesson of ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ that a thing must be loved...”
– GK Chesterton (via myquotelibrary)
“Exile, in the words of Wallace Stevens, is “a mind of winter” in which the...”
– Edward W. Said, Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (via residueatlas)
“Our work, that is, our way of responding to the Lord, can remain...”
– Luigi Giussani, In the Footsteps of Christ, p.106
“There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the...”
– Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water (via invisibleforeigner)
“You must behave to everyone with subtlety, with love. Do not offend anyone. You...”
– Elder Porphyrios Kafsokalyvitis
“We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every...”
– Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way
“I ought really make a sacred revel
with Your name, as with wine
and be but...”
– Abraham Heschel
“I’ll make every word a name for You!
I’ll call you: Forest! Night!...”
– Abraham Hescel
“And each most quiet drop of rain
is like a remnant of Your echo,
You, my...”
– Abraham Heschel
“Every moment is a greeting
from eternity to me.
And all words remind me
only...”
– Abraham Heschel
“[The residents and fellow workers are] all of them weary of the idea of freedom...”
– Dorothy Day
“The devil sends me so offensive a bad spirit of temper that at times I think I...”
– St Teresa of Avila
“Let me openly confess my longing for you!
And like a bridge spanning a thousand...”
– Abraham Heschel
11 tags
“If indeed Christianity is divine, entirely divine, it is in one sense human, the...”
– Henri de Lubac, Catholicism (via invisibleforeigner)
“Our situation shows that beauty demands for herself at least as much courage and...”
– Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics (via porziuncola)
7 tags
“The Church is at home everywhere, and everyone should be able to feel himself at...”
– Henri de Lubac, Catholicism (via invisibleforeigner)
1 tag
“The idea of the divine Logos breaking the silence of God is very profound. It...”
– Paul Tillich, A History of Christian Thought (via human-voices)