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Fr. Thomas Reeves
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"Reading for potential class on the development and transformation of character." — Mar 12, 2026 08:21AM
"Reading for potential class on the development and transformation of character." — Mar 12, 2026 08:21AM
The East African Revival bears the hallmarks of American evangelical revivalism (Finney’s Revivals of Religion often accompanied Church and his team of evangelists on their journeys) and Keswick holiness.
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.”
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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
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