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“If we are not spiritual where we are and as we are, we are not spiritual at all.”2 Benedict s way of living is grounded in reality, in daily life, in care of the body and respect for one another, in the intersection of the commandments to
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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
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“The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.”
― Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
― Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”
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“The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.”
― Murder in the Bastille
― Murder in the Bastille
“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
Q&A with Elizabeth J. Andrew
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Let's swap favorite titles, especially spiritual memoirs, literary novels with spiritual themes, and theological/spiritual writing with a radical, eco ...more
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This group is for persons interested in the genre of the spiritual memoir. Think Augustine, Thomas Merton, Anne Lamott, and Kathleen Norris to name a ...more
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