Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.-------------------------------Gender-neutral version: Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about God.
02191 – Our Idea of God…
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02095 – No Quick Condemnation
Do not be too quick to condemnthe man who no longer believes in God:for it is perhapsyour own coldnessand avariceand mediocrityand materialismand selfishnessthat have chilled his faith.----------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: Do not be...
02072 – Creating & Feeding Our Human Desires
We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit, and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to...
02053 – Love: The Reason I Exist
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
02011 – Finding God
If you find God with great ease, perhaps it is not God you have found.
01933 – The Gate of Heaven is Everywhere
At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the...
01906 – Bear with Your Problems
One of the laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not solve problems: you bear with them until they solve themselves.
01758 – The Beginning of Love
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise, we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
01757 – Said Better by the Wind
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
01748 – What Can We Gain?
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?