No matter what weakness you think you may have, no matter what inadequacies or setbacks you’ve encountered, God wants to give you His divine strength. He wants to make up the difference and put you further ahead than you ever thought possible.
(via singhallelujahh)
A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough. She knows in her quiet center where God dwells that he finds her beautiful, has deemed her worthy, and in him, she is enough.
(via catholiclove)
“Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work — hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss — loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us.”
~Jean Vanier from Finding Peace
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Hear more of Jean Vanier in L’Arche a Community of Brokenness and Beauty
“Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one’s life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.”
~Walter Brueggeman from Journey to the Common Good
Hear more of Brueggemann in our show The Prophetic Imagination of Walter Brueggemann
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Peace I leave with you, my friends. My peace I give to you. And I am with you until the end.
(via singhallelujahh)
The liturgy is cosmic art. The reality revealed is the answer to the age-old dreams of the universe, of that creation which is in travail even till now; and again it is both a response and an offering and a cleansing, for this returning of the universe to the Life is itself a renewal of life, a healing and sanctifying and blessing. So, if you learn through the church’s liturgy to be clean of heart, you do three things: you achieve a personal integrity through a worship which is neither rational nor emotional but total, and therefore a total renewal of the self; you recover something of the integrity of the self in the cosmic family and share in some degree in the bringing back of the cosmos to its source; you respond to that divine power which will give you the essential integrity without which nothing else is of importance: the integrity of the self in the infinity of God.
“Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect.
In either case, we learn nothing.
If we read or listen with an open mind and an open heart, the rain of the Dharma will penetrate the soil of our consciousness.”
~Thich Nhat Hanh from Heart of Buddha’s Teaching
Hear more Thich Nhat Hanh in Brother Thay: A Radio Pilgrimage
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Yours I am, for You I was born:
What do You want of me?
(via tenthousandangels)
