C.S. Lewis on shame

from The Great Divorce shame is like that. if you will accept it – if you will drink the cup to the bottom – you will find it very nourishing: but try to… Continue reading

C.S. Lewis on reality

from The Great Divorce reality is harsh to the feet of shadows

Quotes from Joan Chittister’s The Liturgical Year

i’ve been reading joan chittister’s book, ‘the liturgical year’ for the past couple of days.  totally loving it.  so i’m going to share some of my favorite quotes from it.  all are stripped… Continue reading

Simon Tugwell on providence

from Prayer: Living with God God’s providence means that wherever we have got to, whatever we have done, that is precisely where the road to heaven begins.  however many  cues we have missed,… Continue reading

Thomas Merton on salvation

from No Man Is an Island this matter of ‘salvation’ is, when seen intuitively, a very simple thing. but when we analyze it, it turns into a complex tangle of paradoxes. we become… Continue reading

Abraham Joshua Heschl on faith

well-adjusted people think that faith is an answer to all human problems. in truth, however, faith is a challenge to all human persons. to have faith is to be in labor.

Rob Bell on Jonah

from sermon series on Jonah our assumption is that jonah desperately needs to be rescued FROM the fish, but what is going on is far more subversive – we want to be rescued… Continue reading

Jurgen Moltmann on faith

from Theology of Hope to believe does in fact mean to cross and transcend bounds, to be engaged in an exodus.  yet this happens in a way that does not suppress or skip… Continue reading

Thomas Merton on suffering

from Seven Storey Mountain indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and… Continue reading

Daily Haiku

from Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson For letting me in, for sharing your life with me, I owe you the world.