Quotations of the day

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Believing is a present tense action word, it involves our active participation of continued trust in Him, so that we remain firmly committed. Perhaps we have been far too slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken.

"Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great." ~George MacDonald

 

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“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

 

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"There is nothing but God's grace; we walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by upon it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe." ~Robert Louis Stephenson

"Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue." ~Eugene O'Neill

 

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Negativity

It can only affect you if you're on the same frequency.

Vibrate higher.

 

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"Focus on humility. You are made from dust." ~David E. Johnson

 

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"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less." ~C.S. Lewis

"Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire." ~William Penn

 

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“We have not an impotent Father, or a disappointed Christ, or a defeated Holy Ghost, as is so commonly preached; but an omnipotent Father, an all-victorious Christ, and an almighty Holy Spirit, able to break the hardest heart and subdue the stoutest will.” ~Dr. E.W. Bullinger

 

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"Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth." ~N. T. Wright

"Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about." ~N. T. Wright

 

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"The old-fashioned guidance systems to keep airplanes on course during flight might help us to understand the art of listening to the divine guidance of the Holy Spirit. When the pilot is on course, he will not hear anything on his headphones. If he veers a little to the right, he will get a beep. If he goes too far the other way, he will pick up a different signal. By correcting his course, his headphones return to silence. In the moment-by-moment process of daily life, similar indications of being on or off course are available." -Thomas Keating

"What I really wanted was to fall in love with God. It's amazing what obstacles there are within us, or at least in me, that seem to slow the process." ~Thomas Keating

 

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted words "failure" and "success." and measure them by the eternal, not by the earthly standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be preeminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross — was that a failure? Nay, my brethren.it was the death of Him who lived that we might follow His footsteps, it was the life, it was the death of the Son of God. ~F.W. Farrar

 

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...it was the death of Him who lived that we might follow His footsteps.... ~F.W. Farrar

And that we might participate in His divine nature, which we do in particular when we go to Mass in His Church, and licitly receive Him in Holy Communion.

Go to Mass.

 

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“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.” ~ Mother Teresa

 

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"There is always something deeper than anything said--something of which all human, all divine words, figures, pictures, motion-forms, are but the outer laminar spheres through which the central reality shines more or less plainly. Light itself is but the poor outside form of a deeper, better thing, namely, life. The life is Christ himself. The light is what we see and shall see in him; the life is what we may be in him. The life is a light by abundant clarity invisible; it is the unspeakable unknown." ~George MacDonald

 

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Why should it be necessary?

"If God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything? I answer, What if He knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God’s idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need—the need of Himself?…Hunger may drive the runaway child home, and he may or may not be fed at once, but he needs his mother more than his dinner. Communion with God is the one need of the soul beyond all other need: prayer is the beginning of that communion, and some need is the motive of that prayer.” ~George MacDonald

 

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