“If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.”
― Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
― Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
“Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart.”
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“Spiritual discipline: Any activity that can help me gain power to live life as Jesus taught and modeled it.”
― The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
― The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
“Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.”
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