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The sin to which you did not consent is not imputed to you. These include, for instance, involuntary distractions during prayer, impure and blasphemous thoughts, involuntary anger, against which we zealously struggle, avarice that we resist--all these are the attacks of the evil spirits. Our duty is to endure, to pray, to humble ourselves, and to love.
My Life in Christ by Saint John of Kronstadt
We people of today have the same battles as the fathers of old, because the demons are the same; they have not changed. They come and wage war against us, just as they did with them. The fathers of old, however, were warriors; they became acclaimed champions. We, unfortunately, are so easily fooled. The demons give us thoughts (for example, against our brother), and we do not oppose them. We sit back and accept them. When someone criticizes us, when someone looks at us the "wrong" way, when someone does not help us, we begin to weave and fabricate many evil and resentful thoughts against him. And what happens next? We go from bad to worse. What's more, we waste our valuable time.
The Art of Salvation by Elder Ephraim of Arizona
“Same-sex love annoyingly poses the question of what the meaning of desire is in itself, not considered as instrumental to some other process (the peopling of the world); and this immediately brings us up against the possibility not only of pain and humiliation without any clear payoff, but - just as worryingly - of non-functional joy: or, to put it less starkly, joy whose material “production” is an embodied person aware of grace. It puts the question which is also raised for some kinds of moralist by the existence of the clitoris in women; something whose function is joy. lf the creator were quite so instrumentalist in “his” attitude to sexuality, these hints of prodigality and redundancy in the way the whole thing works might cause us to worry about whether he was, after all, in full rational control of it. But if God made us for joy… ?”
Rowan Williams, “The Body’s Grace”
“(…) the God-sized hole in me was so big and vacant, voracious and spacious, it was like I was running some kind of desperate toddler’s shape-sorter game, trying to find something that fit to plug into it. I’d stuff anything in there, regardless of whether the shape coincided with the opening.”
— “Transparent Things, God-Sized Hole“ by Dana Roeser
“On a very concrete level, the Reformation impacted the lives of real women by driving them from their homes, taking them away from their sisters, and depriving them of their livelihood, as convents and monasteries were closed across Europe. [..] When a convent closed, what happened? The younger women—“freed” from the convents into which they had been “forced”—were now turned over to men as their wives, sometimes willingly, other times not. The older women were absorbed back into their families. What was lost was a way of life in which women could organize their own lives, lead, create art and music, conduct business, learn, write and read, provide charity and spiritual support for the community and each other.”
— Amy Welborn, Women and the Protestant Reformation
“My true being is unborn and changeless. I am the Lord who dwells in every creature. Through the power of my own appearance, I manifest myself in finite forms. —Bhagavad Gita 4:5-6 In the beginning was only Being; One without a second. Out of himself he brought forth the cosmos and entered into everything in it. There is nothing that does not come from him. Of everything he is the inmost Self. —Chandogya Upanishad, Chapter 6, 2:2-3 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Through him all things came to be, and not one thing had its being but through him… . And the Word became flesh and dwells among us. —John 1:1, 3, 14”
— Infinite Forms — Center for Action and Contemplation
I've been thinking. You see a lot of stuff going around in Christian circles about how you don't *have* to give to beggars, they might just use it for drugs, you couldn't even help all of them if you did, etc. etc...
But like.
What if we did, tho.
What if each set aside the amount of money we thought we could afford for it each month, and just kept a couple 5$ bills in our wallets. And we stopped worrying about what they were gonna do with it and just tried to help? And once you're out for the month that's fine, because you know another Christian will have it covered. Like yeah most of us can't afford to sell all our possessions, but we've got $30, right?
You know, what if. What if we did. What if that was our legacy. Because man, it used to be. And I'm tired of it not being again.
My church is in a bad-ish part of town, so a lot of homeless people will approach parishioners before or after Mass to beg for money. A lot of people would refuse them, until our priest told us that what they do with the money is between them and God, and that we as Christians still have an obligation of charity to assist them if we can.
"Acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace thereby good shall come unto thee."
~Job 22:21
A man or a society that does not react to suffering and injustice and makes no effort to alleviate them is still distant from the love of Christ’s heart. While Christians enjoy the fullest freedom in finding and applying various solutions to these problems, they should be united in having one and the same desire to serve mankind. Otherwise their Christianity will not be the word and life of Jesus; it will be a fraud, a deception of God and man.
Saint Josemaria, "Christ is Passing By, 167"
“Go back to Allaah, even if you have sinned thousand times.”
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Truly not a single earthly pleasure can satisfy our heart. We are strangers on earth, pilgrims and travelers; our home and fatherland are there in heaven, in the heavenly Kingdom; and there do not exist on earth things which could perfectly satisfy our desires. Let a man own the whole world and all that is in the world, yet all that will not interest him for more than a minute, so to speak, and it will never satisfy his heart: for the heart of man can be fully satisfied only by the love of God and therefore God alone can fill the heart and soul of man and quench the thirst of his desires.
St. Innocent of Alaska
First rule of dealing with people is: Understand that they’re a sinner and so are you. Have some humility.
Second rule of dealing with people is: Love your neighbor. Love your enemy. Get over yourself.
A man drinks a glass of water. The water is God's "I love you". He is two days in the desert without finding anything to drink. The dryness in his throat is God's "I love you". God is like an importunate woman who clings to her lover, whispering in his ear for hours without stopping: "I love you- I love you- I love you- I love you..."
Simone Weil, First and Last Notebooks, trans. Richard Rees
“The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender’s inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.”
C.S. Lewis
Creation itself, the natural world, already believes the gospel and lives the pattern of death and resurrection. The natural world believes in necessary suffering as the very cycle of life.
Richard Rohr, Falling Upward
"We are all meant to be mothers of God. What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the divine Son takes place unceasingly, but does not take place within myself? And, what good is it to me if Mary is full of grace if I am not also full of grace? What good is it to me for the Creator to give birth to his Son if I do not also give birth to him in my time and my culture? This, then, is the fullness of time: When the Son of Man is begotten in us."
Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
Detail of the Archangel Gabriel from The Annunciation with St. Margaret and St. Asano (1333) by Simone Martini (1284 - 1344)
