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I think this is a beautiful book. I first read this as part of a series of sessions on formation. This book is probably best read in this manner - as part of a programme of sessions or a retreat. Otherwise one may run the risk of flipping through the
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"Usually we can forgive ourselves only after we have forgiven our own parents for being hurt and human rather than God. The problem isn't making mistakes but rather not trusting one's mistakes to a God who heals and whose infinite care can create new life in any time of hurt." — Oct 19, 2019 01:40AM
"Usually we can forgive ourselves only after we have forgiven our own parents for being hurt and human rather than God. The problem isn't making mistakes but rather not trusting one's mistakes to a God who heals and whose infinite care can create new life in any time of hurt." — Oct 19, 2019 01:40AM
“This world is but canvas to our imaginations.”
― A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
― A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
“Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.”
― A Little Princess
― A Little Princess
“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
“To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play.”
― Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life
― Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life
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