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The fact I loved him in a sick, hurt, desperate way, like a child or a dog, did not matter. I was not the sort of love he needed. He wanted something else that I could not give him, something he had before.

What degradation lay in being young, I thought.

Instinctively, I thought “she is comparing me to Rebecca”; and a sharp as a sword the shadow came between us.

I already know I’m gonna love this

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But I was too proud to call myself a child. I was inflated with self esteem, which made me think myself a great man

In my youth I wandered away, too far from your sustaining hand, and created of myself a barren waste of

He who is unmarried is concerned with God’s claim, asking how he is to please God; whereas the married man is concerned with the world’s claim, asking how he is to please his wife.

My sin was this, that I looked for pleasure, beauty and truth not in him but in myself and his other creatures, and the search led me to pain, confusion, and error

I am not in hell, and yet you are there too, for if I sink down to the world beneath, you are present still

None of the evangelists recount’s Jesus’ resurrection itself. It is an event taking place within the mystery of God between Jesus and the Father, which for us defies description: by its very nature it lies outside human experience

Forgot to update this oops. Had a busy weekend thus lack of reading progress

Yet it is still the same mount of olives … here the abyss of sin and evil penetrated deep within his soul. Here he was to quake with foreboding of his imminent death… here he wrestled with his destiny for my sake

The most ordinary and common: suffering from the heat, insects, from unforeseen events, setbacks; they are small annoyances that you offer Me in a spirit of atonement, and they are part of the harvest of the autumn of your life, in the always wonderful spring of love. P496

Take initiatives of love without ever losing your smile. Give me that smile so that I may bless it

I am so late to the party on this series

We must let ourselves be immersed in the Lord’s mercy, then our hearts too will discover the right path

It is the servant love of Jesus that draws us out of our pride and makes us fit for God, makes us clean