Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.
―Rick Warren
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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“For man, who is always striving, never satisfied, always becoming, love is the true human condition.”
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And he advised her thus: “Never give up the church, never stay away from the Communion. For these things happened to you because you did not attend the mysteries for five weeks.”
—Palladius, The Lausiac History , CHAPTER XVII. — MACARIUS OF EGYPT 112 -
Everything in life is uncertain. That is how you know you are existing in the world, the uncertainty. Of course, this is why we sometimes want to return to the past, because we know it, or think we do. It’s a song we’ve heard.
—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time
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I have been so many different people, played so many different roles in my life…I was people I hated and people I admired.
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Excellence, here, was in proportion to obscurity: the one who was best was the one who was least observed, least distinguished.
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We often take the name of Jesus for granted; failing to recognize its power and how uttering it with love can transform the heart and mind. It is of this we are reminded on the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus!
“Jesus Name is a concrete and powerful way of transfiguring men in their deepest and most divine reality. The men and women we meet in the street, factory, office, and especially those who seem to be irritating and unlikable, let us go toward them with Jesus’ name in our heart and on our lips …If we see Jesus in each man, if we say ‘Jesus’ over each person, we will go through the world with a new vision and with a new gift in our heart. We can thus transform the world, as much as it is within us, and make our own the word Jacob spoke to his brother: ‘I saw your face and it was like seeing God’s face.’”
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When we think back to the places where we felt most at home, we quickly see that it was where our hosts gave us the precious freedom to come and go on our own terms and did not claim us for their own needs. Only in a free space can re-creation take place and new life be found. The real host is the one who offers that space where we do not have to be afraid and where we can listen to our own inner voices and find our own personal way of being human. But to be such a host we have to first of all be at home in our own house.
—Henri Nouwen
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