When I was eight, he abandoned me. At sixteen, he was a young, undisciplined, unsupervised genius, loose in the world.
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“Bend every effort so that your laws and customs do not turn their back on the transcendent meaning of man or on the moral aspects of life.[334]”
― In Conversation with God – Volume 3 Part 2: Weeks 7 - 12 in Ordinary Time
― In Conversation with God – Volume 3 Part 2: Weeks 7 - 12 in Ordinary Time
“Our blinders cut off our peripheral vision until mercy becomes invisible; there is only room for battle.”
― Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life
― Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life
“them), reminded me of something the Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote: “As long as I assume that the world is something I discover by turning on the radio . . . I am deceived from the start.”1”
― Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life
― Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life
“You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image,” she wrote, “when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life
― Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life
“a true father should love his wife. The”
― From Humdrum to Holy
― From Humdrum to Holy
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