Wise Words on Wednesday: Strifes and schisms
Why are there strifes, and tumults, and divisions, and schisms, and wars among you? Have we not [all] one God and one Christ? Is there not one Spirit of grace poured out upon us?
– St. Clement of Rome
"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
Why are there strifes, and tumults, and divisions, and schisms, and wars among you? Have we not [all] one God and one Christ? Is there not one Spirit of grace poured out upon us?
– St. Clement of Rome
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C.S. Lewis
“The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.” – St. Basil the Great
When given the gift of loneliness, which is the gift of liberty, [those who do not appreciate the freedom of having nothing to do] will cast it away; they will destroy it deliberately with some dreadful game with cards or a little ball… I cannot repress a shudder when I see them throwing away their hard-won holidays by doing something. For my own part, I never can get enough Nothing to do – G. K Chesterton
Thanks to Transformed In Christ for the quotation!
“Nothing transfigures love and lifts it to new heights as much as sacrifice, for love is freedom in search of servitude to another”
– Archbishop Fulton Sheen