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Security is mostly a superstition...

Helen Keller

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Marty Sampsons frågor

Under veckan kom nyheten att lovsångsledaren/författaren Marty Sampson är på väg att lämna den kristna tron, Ett tungt skäl är att ingen und

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Utsikten från sjukhuskyrkans lokaler Gävle. Kom tidigt till mitt besök och fick några minuter innan dagens göremål börjar. (på/i Gävle Sjukhus) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsU7GOBg_yJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=14x3c2b0b4e43

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We think of things as this or that, as better or worse, as good or bad, but in God everything is what it is and lives in the perfection of its being, which is to say that the little fly as it exists in God is nobler than the highest angel is in itself. What then of me? What then of you?

Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart: Meditations for the Restless Soul

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"The greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us." Anthony de Mello

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"We see people and things not as they are but as we are." Anthony de Mello

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"The shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story." Anthony de Mello

[eternal-echoes]

If you experience dryness in prayer or a time when you come to Mass and feel like you didn’t get anything out of it, then that’s a good day. That’s a day where you get to choose to love God for His sake and not for what He can do for you.

Father Mike Schmitz (via catherine-of-alexandria)

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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (via craigtowens)

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Mary and Eve – by Sr. Grace Remington, OCSO

My mother, my daughter, life-giving, Eve, Do not be ashamed, do not grieve. The former things have passed away, Our God has brought us to a New Day. See, I am with Child, Through whom all will be reconciled. O Eve! My sister, my friend, We will rejoice together Forever Life without end. May you share in the Christmas Joy Of the angels and saints!

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"I also lament that the Reformation wasn’t nearly radical enough. The new Protestant churches quickly became the state churches of the emerging nation-states of Northern Europe. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Those who did advocate for radical reform (the Anabaptists) were ferociously persecuted by both Catholics and Protestants. So instead of turning away from Christendom (Christianity as civil religion in service of the state), Protestant churches just continued down the same well-worn path of compromise — baptizing the wars of their emperor and blessing the brutality of empire — already trod by Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. This established a tragic trajectory that would ultimately lead to the 20th century catastrophe of millions upon millions of European Christians killing one another in the name of national allegiance."

[cruciform-solidarity]

The people who ‘search for God’ delude themselves: We do not search for God, because we are already within God, at the heart of God.

Jean-Luc Marion, The Rigor of Things: Conversations with Dan Arbib (via spiritandteeth)

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May you take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention. May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.

John O’Donohue | For Presence (via kvtes)

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Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart – and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains … an unuprooted small corner of evil.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1973 (via absurdlakefront)

[onlysaneman]

If we mutually follow each other on here there’s at least a 20% chance I’ve referred to you in a real life conversation as “someone I know”

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.

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Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu (via books-n-quotes)