Sunday, September 10, 2006

All Will Be Well in the End

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All will be well in the end — if all is not well, then it's not the end! ~ Megan McKenna a Catholic writer, and a peace and justice acti...

Punishments for Laziness

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Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. ~ Jules Renard
Friday, September 01, 2006

The Deepest Yearning of Our Hearts

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“Speak to us about the deepest yearning of our hearts, about our many wishes, about hope; not about the many strategies for (mere) survival,...

Truth-Telling, Kindness, Forgiveness, and Anger

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“Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not nice polite people who never get angry with one another. Those are not the virtues of God’...

Seeing the Creature Made in the Divine Image

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“God can look right through whatever evil we have done in our lives and get to the creature made in the divine image. I suspect that only G...

To be a Christian is to live dangerously

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“To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely,—to step out in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, and to keep on s...

The Organized/Economic Church

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Organized Christianity seems, in general, to have made peace with “the economy” by divorcing itself from economic issues, and this, I think,...

The Theology Already There

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“We are at the beginning of a period in which many things will have to be tried. A few will work; many will not. But the place where the cou...

The Human Soul

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“If we want to support each other’s inner lives, we must remember a simple truth: the human soul does not want to be fixed, it wants simply ...

Belonging and Election

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Belonging is that complex, entangling, and freeing experience of simultaneous choosing and being chosen that lovers, committed members of ma...

Wild Geese

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You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let th...
Thursday, August 31, 2006

Einstein's Religion

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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perc...

Never fight an inanimate object.

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Never fight an inanimate object. ~ P. J. O'Rourke
Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Success is Simple

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Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time. A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going...
Monday, August 28, 2006

Be Calm

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When you aren't sure what to do, it's best to begin by being calm. ~ C.Y.

God our Savior, who desires everyone to be saved

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Isaiah 45:22-23 NRS 22 Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. 23 By myself I have swo...
Sunday, August 27, 2006

The Alien and the Stranger

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NRS Exodus 12:48 If an alien who resides with you wants to celebrate the passover to the LORD, all his males shall be circumcised; then he m...

A Heavy Heart

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Like vinegar on a wound is one who sings songs to a heavy heart. Like a moth in clothing or a worm in wood, sorrow gnaws at the human heart....
Saturday, August 26, 2006

The will to confront

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from a news story about the Middle East: "the will to confront"
Sunday, August 13, 2006

If Life Is a Puzzle

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If life is a puzzle, ask Jesus for the peace that is missing. ~ Author Unknown