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Ubuntu is a spiritual concept found in many cultures and broadly documented in the native cultures of South Africa. This concept, which is gaining significant popularity around the world, simply means “I in You and You in Me.” Christians
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“If I am loved,” Father Damien went on, “it is a merciless and exacting love against which I have no defense. If I am not loved, then I am being pitilessly manipulated by a force I cannot withstand, either, and so it is all the same. I must do what I must do. Go in peace.”
― The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
― The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
“Between these two, where was the real self? It came to her that both Sister Cecilia and then Agnes were as heavily manufactured of gesture and pose as was Father Damien. And within this, what sifting of identity was she? What mote? What nothing?”
― The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
― The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
“We meditate that we might learn to see through Christ’s eyes the divine mystery of all that surrounds us.”
― Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God
― Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God
“The truth is that we can venture into meditation only in our willingness to be, at times, perplexed. What is more, we must be willing to befriend our perplexity as a way of dying to our futile efforts to grasp the ungraspable depths that meditation invites us to discover. It”
― Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God
― Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God
“What is the question we spend our entire lives asking? Our question is this: Are we loved? I don’t mean by one another. Are we loved by the one who made us? Constantly, we look for evidence. In the gifts we are given—children, good weather, money, a happy marriage perhaps—we find assurance. In contrast, our pains, illnesses, the deaths of those we love, our poverty, our innocent misfortunes—those we take as signs that God has somehow turned away. But, my friends, what exactly is love here? How to define it? Does God’s love have anything at all to do with the lack or plethora of good fortune at work in our lives? Or is God’s love, perhaps, something very different from what we think we know?”
― The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
― The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
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