“Listen to the invitation of Jesus to join him in the reign of love that is life in the kingdom of God.”
― Desiring God's Will: Aligning Our Hearts with the Heart of God
― Desiring God's Will: Aligning Our Hearts with the Heart of God
“Letting Jesus set the terms, his surprising claim is that he is “gentle and lowly in heart.”
― Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
― Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
“my greatest skill has been to want but little”
― Walden
― Walden
“where charity is not, justice cannot be; for the love of neighbor worketh no evil. If they had this charity they would not rend the body of Christ which is the church” (De Serm. Dom. 1.5.13).”
― The Beatitudes through the Ages
― The Beatitudes through the Ages
“This life of utter givenness to God and the other, the neighbour, is already a life that death cannot contain.”
― The Sign and the Sacrifice: The Meaning of the Cross and Resurrection
― The Sign and the Sacrifice: The Meaning of the Cross and Resurrection
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