The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.
Music is more powerful than reason in the soul. That is also why Plato made music the very first step in his long educational curriculum: good music was to create the harmony of soul that would be a r...
Brother Lawrence says, in , 'There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God. Those only can comprehend it who practice and experience...
One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.
We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.
One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books of theology in the world.
The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because they continued to go after the little wanderer, l...
There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy.
We must distinguish the act of faith from the object of faith, believing from what is believed.
Happiness can get boring, because it is the satisfaction of our desires, and we know what we desire. (Can you desire what you do not know?) Joy never gets boring because it transcends our desires and...
God is love, and music is the language of love; therefore, music is the language of God. Music is a language more profound than words. How often have you heard a great piece of music and felt that? Gr...
If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.
Zabuna o odnosu između poimanja osobe i čovjeka može uzrokovati golemu štetu. Američki Vrhovni sud dvaput je pokazao da mu je prijeko potrebna lekcija iz filozofije jer ne shvaća da ljudska bića spada...
It hardly ever attaches to any other sin except one, and is never heard from any organized group of people except one.
Live a life of love, especially the love of God, and observe the joy of it. Live a life of lovelessness and observe the joylessness of it.
From the premise that Christianity is true it follows that the far-off glimpse of joy produced by fantasy is a glimpse of truth; that a great eucatastrophic tale like is a gift of divine grace, an op...
13. Moderation is dull. (Read G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy and The Man Who Was Thursday to refute that cliché.)
Jungians call the collective unconscious.
Reason and
Grace is not in nature so much as nature is in grace. Saint Thérèse said, on her deathbed, Everything is grace.
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