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I've listened to some podcasts by Fr. Gallagher and so there is certainly a lot that is familiar in this book, but the systematic treatment of the Rules for Discernment really impressed me and gave me a lot of motivation to start paying more attentio
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"Yes...I got this book mixed up with another Timothy Gallagher title and I'm still not sad that I'm reading it for the second time this year. I clearly need it." — Jun 14, 2026 03:07PM
"Yes...I got this book mixed up with another Timothy Gallagher title and I'm still not sad that I'm reading it for the second time this year. I clearly need it." — Jun 14, 2026 03:07PM
It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily." "They really are," said the Lion, "but that doesn't make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy."
“The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”
― The G.K. Chesterton Collection [34 Books]
― The G.K. Chesterton Collection [34 Books]
“First, the weather got hotter every day, and the hay press broke down every day. Second, the boss fell in love with Marian Wray, and the hay press broke down every day. Third, inside of forty-eight hours everybody on that crew hated everybody else, and the hay press broke down every day. Fourth, and most important of all, the hay press broke down every day.”
― The Oath of Office: A Western Trio
― The Oath of Office: A Western Trio
“I think the greater danger is that those who think they understand the process [of overcoming our attachments] are likely to try to make it happen on their own by engaging in false austerities and love-denying self-deprivations. They will not wait for God's timing; they will rush ahead of grace. I have seen it happen when ascetic practices have become overinstitutionalized, and I have engaged in it myself when I thought I could engineer my own salvation. It does not work.”
― Addiction and Grace: Exploring the Psychology of Addiction, the Power of Spirituality, and the Path to Freedom Through Contemplative Practices
― Addiction and Grace: Exploring the Psychology of Addiction, the Power of Spirituality, and the Path to Freedom Through Contemplative Practices
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