A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
01544 – Value Principles above Privileges
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01484 – Growing into Love=Becoming More Vulnerable
The more you grow into love, into the message of Jesus--to say it in such traditional, defenseless terms--the more vulnerable you make yourself. You simply become more open to attack when you have become conspicuous or when "that of God" lights up in you. When you...
01192 – Lose, Find, Keep
Sometimes it is when we lose what we can't keep that we find what we can't lose.
00348 – Look for Christ
The principle runs through all life from top to bottom. Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end; submit with...
00295 – Seeing and Knowing God
If the soul is to know God, it must also forget itself and lose itself. For as long as it sees itself, it will not see and know God.
00285 – Greatest Joy from Deepest Pain
Somehow losing myself helped me find my truer self; losing love helped me learn to love more fully and authentically; failing in relationship taught me much about being in relationship in a creative, nurturing way; and experiencing broken trust revealed how precious...
00128 – Pain and Resurrection
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. Creation has a pattern of wisdom; and we dare not shield ourselves from it, or we literally will lose our soul. We can obey commandments, believe doctrines, and attend church services all our lives and still...
00123 – Dying Before You Die
What is the wisdom that matters now? For me, it’s the Paschal Mystery [the passion, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus the Christ]. . . . Simply, the one who would save his life or her life will lose it and the one who’s willing to lose it, will save it. In...