The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.
This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.
I was taught that I had to ‘master’ subjects. But who can ‘master’ beauty, or peace, or joy?
When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
At its Greek root, “to believe” simply means “to give one’s heart to.” Thus, if we can determine what it is we give our heart to, then we will know what it is we believe.
Because we are made in God’s image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves.
When you come to a place where you have to left or right,’ says Sister Ruth, ‘go straight ahead.
More than ever, I’ve come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity to cope with change.
Wantonness might be sheer desperation, masking a suicidal self-debasement, but it might also represent a joyful, lusty sexuality that indicated, at heart, a vast generosity of spirit.
It is the community that suffers when it refuses to validate any outside standards, and won’t allow even the legitimate exercise of authority by the professionals it has hired.
All that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
None of us knows what the next change is going to be what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner waiting to change all the tenor of our lives.
All that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
One may have been a fool but there’s no foolishness like being bitter.
Friendship is an art and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.
Friendship is an art and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. … You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
Marriage: a job. Happiness or unhappiness has nothing to do with it.
There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. … You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.