"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
At this moment, you already have everything you need to do everything God is asking of you. So why aren’t you doing it yet? William Law summed up the hard truth well when he said, “If you will look into your own heart in complete honest, you must admit that there is one and only one reason why you are not a saint: you do not wholly want to be”
Matthew Warner, Messy & Foolish
We like to hide behind our big institutional solutions to problems.
That’s why we’d rather elect somebody to clean up the streets than take a walk down our own street with some paint and a broom. That’s why we’re more likely to pay higher taxes to support the elderly than to spend time getting to know them. And it’s why we’re more likely to drop ten dollars in the collection plate than we are to take a homeless man to lunch.
We love to subsidize and outsource our charity and the fixing of our problems.
– Matthew Warner, Messy & Foolish
Instead of lecturing people about going to church on Sunday, let’s inspire them to want to go. Instead of telling them to dress more appropriately for Mass, let’s give them something worth dressing up for. Instead of telling them not to sleep around, let’s fascinate them with the pursuit of purity. Instead of preaching that giving is better than receiving, let’s just give.
– Matthew Warner, Messy & Foolish
Prepare the way, then get out of the way. Open the cage door and let the Truth speak for itself. It will roar like a lion who, once encountered, needs no help being taken seriously
– Matthew Warner, Messy & Foolish
It only takes one fool to fill an empty dance floor – just one poor soul, free from the cares of what other people think, with the courage to start dancing. For his dancing ends not in ridicule, but in more fools dancing
– Matthew Warner, Messy & Foolish
It’s great to read writing from Matt Warner again! Here’s a really powerful piece he wrote on “Why the world doesn’t take Catholicism seriously”…
