Wise Words on Wednesday: Holiness, not happiness
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man
– Oswald Chambers
Category: Quotation
Wise Words on Wednesday: Restless Hunger
[It’s a]…sense of a strange restlessness or a fierce curiosity. It’s probably best described as the mental, spiritual and emotional equivalent of being physically hungry, that strange but intense hunger when you don’t quite know what it is that you want to eat.
CS Lewis famously described a ‘God-shaped hole’ in each of us, which would remain empty until we knew God
– Divine Embrace
Wise Words on Wednesday: Keep Calm and Carry On
When the flag is flying above Windsor Castle, we know that the Queen is in residence. Likewise, the light by the tabernacle lets us know that the King is present there; all is well.
– Anonymous, One of my old prayer journals.
Wise Words on Wednesday: Week Religion
My God has to be a God of Monday mornings as well as God of weekends
and holidays
– The Divine Embrace
Wise Words On Wednesday: Know God or know about God?
“We may study as much as we will but we shall still not come to know the Lord unless we live according to His commandments, for the Lord is not made known through learning but by the Holy Spirit. Many philosophers and scholars have arrived at a belief in the existence of God but they have not come to know God. And we monks apply ourselves day and night to the study of the Lord’s command but not all of us by a long way have come to know the Lord, although we believe in Him.”
– St Silouan the Athonite
Wise Words on Wednesday: Selfishness Test
If you want to find out how selfish you are, don’t ask for anything the next time you pray. See how long you pray
– Lifestories
Wise Words On Wednesday: Building the Church
Church is built during the week and celebrated on Sundays
– Elm Grove Journal