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“I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.”
― Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
― Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
“Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.”
― Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
― Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
“From the heart arise unknowable impulses as well as conscious feelings, moods, and wishes. The heart, too, has its reasons and is the center of perception and understanding. Finally, the heart is the seat of the will: it makes plans and comes to good decisions. Thus the heart is the central and unifying organ of our personal life. Our heart determines our personality, and is therefore not only the place where God dwells but also the place to which Satan directs his fiercest attacks. It is this heart that is the place of prayer. The prayer of the heart is a prayer that directs itself to God from the center of the person and thus affects the whole of our humanness.”
― The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers
― The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers
“For many of us prayer means nothing more than speaking with God. And since it usually seems to be a quite one-sided affair, prayer simply means talking to God. This idea is enough to create great frustrations. If I present a problem, I expect a solution; if I formulate a question, I expect an answer; if I ask for guidance, I expect a response. And when it seems, increasingly, that I am talking into the dark, it is not so strange that I soon begin to suspect that my dialogue with God is in fact a monologue. Then I may begin to ask myself: To whom am I really speaking, God or myself?”
― The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers
― The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers
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