-St. Teresa of Avila
Category Archives: Quotes to Ponder
holy friends
“Holy friends challenge the sins we have come to love,
affirm the gifts we are afraid to claim,
and help us dream dreams we otherwise would not dream.”
-Dr. L. Gregory Jones
in it with us
“God became one of us,
not to erase every shadow or to
undo the difficulties of humanity,
but to be with us in the midst of it,
to transform our spectrum of darkness
by bearing a truer depth of light,
and to enlarge us with the joy of
expectancy until the fullness of time
when every hope has come to pass.”
-Jill Carattini
seeing the kid in everyone
In a scene from the movie Ironweed, the characters played by
Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep stumble across on an old Eskimo
woman lying on the ground, probably drunk. Besotted themselves,
the two debate what they should do about her.
“Is she drunk or a bum?” ask Nicholson.
“Just a bum. Been all her life.”
“And before that?”
“She was a whore in Alaska.”
“She hasn’t been a whore all her life. Before that?”
“I dunno. Just a little kid, I guess.”
“Well, a little kid is something. It’s not a bum and it’s not a whore. It’s something. Let’s take her in.”
-Philip Yancey, What’s So Amazing About Grace
benefit of the doubt
IF
my attitude be one of fear, not faith,
about one who has disappointed
me;
If I say, “Just what I expected,” if a
fall occurs,
then I know nothing of Calvary love.
-Amy Carmichael, If
these things they consider as belonging to them…
-William Wilberforce, A Practical View of Real Christianity
a living mystery
“To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one’s life would not make sense if God did not exist.”
-Cardinal Emmanuel Célestin Suhard
opinions
peacocks for pilgrims 