"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
“…we are at war… Just look around you. Look at all the casualties strewn across the field. The lost souls, the broken hearts, the captives…”
– John Eldredge, Epic, Page 102
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“The word “good” has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”
– G.K. Chesterton
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On Saturday evening preparing for the glory of Sunday, Arsenius would turn his back on the sun and stretch out his hands in prayer towards heaven till once again the sun shone on his face
– Sayings, Aresnius 30
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“In the last analysis, no love is ever driven out; it is only conquered by another love. One cannot overcome a love of alcohol until he finds some other love which is more compelling”
– Fulton Sheen, Guide to Contentment
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“Don’t waste time in your life trying to get even with your enemies. The grave is a tremendous equalizer. Six weeks after you all are dead, you’ll look pretty much the same. Let the Lord take care of those whom you think have harmed you. All you have to do is love and forgive. Try to forget and leave all else to the Master.”
– Mother Angelica
Today I ended up having an hour-long amiable discussion at a bar with an atheist. It made me very sad to hear him speak of Christians and the Church in such bitter terms. What then, is to be our response as Christians?
A brother asked him [Poeen], “How ought we to live?” Poemen replied, “We have seen the example of Daniel. They accused him of nothing except that he served his God”
– Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1:13
One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time. – John Piper