If one reaches the point where understanding fails,this is not a tragedy; it is simply a reminderto stop thinking and start looking.Perhaps there is nothing to figure out after all;perhaps we only need to wake up.
02792 – Wake Up!
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02704 – Life. Extraordinary. Take Notice.
People dream of escaping their ordinary life, but their life was never ordinary. They simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.
02502 – When I Say I Am a Christian
When I say ... "I am a Christian"I'm not shouting "I'm clean livin'."I'm whispering "I was lost,Now I'm found and forgiven."When I say ... "I am a Christian"I don't speak of this with pride.I'm confessing that I stumbleAnd need Christ to be my guide.When I say ... "I...
01858 – Pleasing God through Worship
In worship we often fail to remember that God is the primary audience. We are not to design worship to please a crowd. We engage in worship in order to please God.
01853 – The Critic Doesn’t Count
It is not the critic who counts. ... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly ... who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall...
01716 – We Cannot Fail
We’ve got to stop crying, and start sweating; stop talking, and start walking. Working together with our common faith, we cannot fail.
01680 – Life Springs from Death
The central truth of the Christian gospel: life springs from death, not only at the last but also in the many little deaths along the way. When everything you count on for protection has failed, the Divine Presence does not fail. The hands are still there -- not...
01589 – The Moment We Fail to Hold Each Other…
This is why one must say Yes to life and embrace it whenever it is found — and it is found in terrible places; nevertheless, there it is... For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always...
01464 – The Church was Silent
The Church confesses her timidity, her evasiveness, her dangerous concessions. ..She was silent when she should have cried out...she failed to speak the right word in the right way at the right time.
01425 – Power and Corruption; Powerlessness & Self-Hatred
Isaiah understood what Lord Acton failed to note, that it is not only power that tends to corrupt, and absolute power absolutely; powerlessness does the same. It produces lives dreary with self-hatred and stingy with hope. from Credo