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365 days of ouat ladies: day 243

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Christ is with us until the world's end. Let his little flock be bold therefore. For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us.

... William Tyndale (1492?-1536)

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📍Do not be too quick to assume that your enemy is an enemy of God just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy precisely because he can find nothing in you that gives glory to God.

Perhaps he fears you because he can find nothing in you of God's love and God's kindness and God's patience and mercy and understanding of the weaknesses of men.

... Thomas Merton (1915-1968), New Seeds of Contemplation

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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times. - St. Augustine

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✒️ “We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to those who love us. But it is necessary that we face this also. The full acceptance of our abjection and uselessness is the virtue that can make us and others rich in the grace of God.

It takes heroic charity and humility to let others sustain us when we are absolutely incapable of sustaining ourselves. We cannot suffer well unless we see Christ everywhere, both in suffering and in the charity of those who come to the aid of our affliction." -Thomas Merton

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Twilight of a Great Civilization

 We are so steeped in the antichrist philosophy--namely, that success consists in embracing not the values of the Sermon on the Mount but an infinity of material things, of sex and status--that we little sense how much of what passes for practical Christianity is really an apostate compromise with the spirit of the age.    ... Carl F. H. Henry (1913-2003), Twilight of a Great Civilization