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Only as we drink down the kindness of the heart of Christ will we leave in our wake, everywhere we go, the aroma of heaven, and die one day having startled the world with glimpses of a divine kindness too great to be boxed in by what we
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“The internet and smartphones are fantastic for connections, communication, and knowledge. But connections are not friends, communication is not intimacy, and knowledge is not wisdom.”
― Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship
― Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship
“Fill my memory with the record of your mighty works; enlighten my understanding with the light of your Holy Spirit; and may all the desires of my heart and will center in what you would have me do. Make me an instrument of your salvation for the people entrusted to my care, and let me by my life and speaking set forth your true and living Word.”
― The Divine HoursTM, Pocket Edition
― The Divine HoursTM, Pocket Edition
“We’re not a house that needs to be torn down, but we are a house that needs serious, serious renovation. We need the renovation of words—the encouragement and rebuke of friends.”
― Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship
― Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship
“People who think that they are spiritually superior because they make a practice of a discipline such as fasting or silence or frugality are entirely missing the point. The need for extensive practice of a given discipline is an indication of our weakness, not our strength. We can even lay it down as a rule of thumb that if it is easy for us to engage in a certain discipline, we probably don’t need to practice it. The disciplines we need to practice are precisely the ones we are not “good at” and hence do not enjoy.”
― The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives
― The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives
“Ideals of Asceticism, quite correctly summarizes the essence of religious asceticism as the voluntary practice of activities “for the deliverance and protection of the soul from defilement, for the increase of its powers by the discharge of its proper functions in accordance with its own conception of the moral and spiritual order, and for the consequent achievement and enjoyment of its full status.”16 Teachers who condemn asceticism correctly practiced in the contemporary context will almost certainly do more harm than good, unless they have some other method for their students that effectively lays hold on life in the Kingdom of God.”
― The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives
― The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives
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