Heart & Mind
What makes us human is not our minds but our hearts, not our ability to think, but our ability to love… We must give the heart pride of place as we try to discover and define who we are.
– Henri Nouwen.
Category: Quotation
Body & Soul
“To look upon a woman lustfully is to separate her body from her soul, and thus to bring about death. The death which is summoned is a spiritual one, but it comes to him who would attempt to bring about such a divorce of body and soul. What God has joined together, let no man rent asunder”
– Anonymous
Wise Words on Wednesday: Good Argument
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress
– Joseph Joubert
Lord, give me patience…now!
It’s been one of those days…this quotation feels appropriate…
“When someone prays for patience do you think God just gives them patience? No, he gives them lots of opportunities to practice patience. It’s the same when someone prays for courage…”
– God/Morgan Freeman, Evan Almighty
Forgetting our fears
We will risk curling up in the lap of God and forgetting our fears, knowing them to be but deceptive shadows
– The Divine Embrace
Wise Words on Wednesday: The company we keep
Who consorts with the wise will wise become
– Menander
Desert Wanderings
Poemen said, “It is written, ‘Like as the hart longs for the waterbrooks, so longs my soul for you, O my God” (Ps 42:1). Indeed, the harts in the desert eat many snakes and when their venom makes them burn with thirst they come to the waters to assuage their burning thirst. Is it the same for monks: in the desert, they are burned by the poison of the demons and they long for Saturday and Sunday to come so that they can go to the springs of water, that is, to the Body and Blood of the Lord, to be purified from the poison of the evil ones.”
– De vitis Patrum, Sive Verba Seniorum, Liber V