Barry Anderberg

“When you spend time worrying, you’re simply using your imagination to create things you don’t want.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Despite repeated descriptions of the sinfulness of humankind, there isn’t a single citation of Genesis 3 or Adam’s Fall in the entire Old Testament for an explanation of human depravity.”
― Michael S. Heiser, Reversing Hermon: Enoch, the Watchers, and the Forgotten Mission of Jesus Christ

“Since, however, it would be very tedious, in such a volume as this, to reckon up the successions of all the Churches, we do put to confusion all those who, in whatever manner, whether by an evil self-pleasing, by vainglory, or by blindness and perverse opinion, assemble in unauthorized meetings; [we do this, I say,] by indicating that tradition derived from the apostles, of the very great, the very ancient, and universally known Church founded and organized at Rome by the two most glorious apostles, Peter and Paul; as also [by pointing out] the faith preached to men, which comes down to our time by means of the successions of the bishops. For it is a matter of necessity that every Church should agree with this Church, on account of its pre- eminent authority,[3313] that is, the faithful everywhere, 416 inasmuch as the apostolical tradition has been preserved continuously by those [faithful men] who exist everywhere.”
― Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ante-Nicene Fathers - Volume 1

“Many of us, even in our families, are still in control and still able to hide our weakness and our struggle. The difficulty is that we end up limiting our experience of love. We control how much others know of us and so limit the depth to which we know their love.”
― Fr. Mark-Mary Ames, CFR, Habits for Holiness: Small Steps for Making Big Spiritual Progress