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If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”
2. “I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.”
3. “All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
4. “Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.”
5. “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good
because He loves us.”
6. “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world
7. “When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
8. “A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
9. “If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC”
10. “I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.”
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that
people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral
teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing
we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things
Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a
lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or
else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either
this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something
worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him
as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but
let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great
human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
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“Though we
are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us
perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses
us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed,
rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken.”
“To truly
try means to accept God's love, his healing, to accept the world can be ugly,
but your heart doesn't have to be. It takes courage, Finley the warrior. You
haven't held on to your anger and bitterness in search of healing, but as a
banner of your hurt. Because it's real and visible and strong, " she said.
"But so is God's love and so are those arms he's holding out for you.”
“We should
be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us
by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment
we are standing on holy ground.”
“When I lay
these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No
answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not
uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving
the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.”
“Does your
love reach this far, God? And if it extends to heaven and beyond… why can’t it
seem to find me?”
“Too much of
anything is dangerous unless it's God's Love.”
“It's not about
finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do
everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it
perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who
you really are.”
“Like when
you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire.
You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.”
“Legalism
says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because
He loves us.”
“Well and
good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You.”
“The same
God who loves us as we are also loves us to much to leave us as we are. Perhpas
because we tend to hold to ideas about God that reflect our own suppositions
and fears, more than God's self-revelation. We reduce God to our own
dimensions, ascribing to him our own reactions and responses, especially our
own petty and conditional kind of love, and so end up believing in a God cast in
our own image and likeness.
But the true God, the living God, is entirely "other":. Precisely from this radical otherness derives the inscrutable and transcendent nature of divine love-- for which our limited human love is but a distant metaphor. God's love is much more than our human love simply multiplied and expanded. God's love for us will ever be mystery; unfathomable, awesome, entirely beyond human expectation.
Precisely because God's love is something "no eyes has seen, nor ear heard nor the heart of man conceived" (1 Cor 2:9), Mother Teresa meditated on it continuously, and encouraged us to do the same, to continue plumbing this mystery more deeply. To this end she invites us: "Try to deepen your understanding of these two words, 'Thirst of God.;”
But the true God, the living God, is entirely "other":. Precisely from this radical otherness derives the inscrutable and transcendent nature of divine love-- for which our limited human love is but a distant metaphor. God's love is much more than our human love simply multiplied and expanded. God's love for us will ever be mystery; unfathomable, awesome, entirely beyond human expectation.
Precisely because God's love is something "no eyes has seen, nor ear heard nor the heart of man conceived" (1 Cor 2:9), Mother Teresa meditated on it continuously, and encouraged us to do the same, to continue plumbing this mystery more deeply. To this end she invites us: "Try to deepen your understanding of these two words, 'Thirst of God.;”
“You will
remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well.
There will be certain days, and certain nights, you’ll feel my presence near
you, hear my voice. You’ll think you have imagined it and yet, inside you, you
will catch an answering cry. On April evenings, when the rain has ceased, your
heart will shake, you’ll weep for nothing, pine for what’s not there. For you,
this life will never be enough, there will forever be an emptiness, where once
the god was all in all in you.”
“I
experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the
limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any imagination a
human being might have of it. God does, after all, so love the world.”
“Forgiveness
flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of
humans even as I exclude myself from the community of sinners. But no one
can be in the presence of the God of the crucified Messiah for long without
overcoming this double exclusion — without transposing the enemy from the
sphere of the monstrous… into the sphere of shared humanity and herself from
the sphere of proud innocence into the sphere of common sinfulness. When
one knows [as the cross demonstrates] that the torturer will not eternally
triumph over the victim, one is free to rediscover that person’s humanity and
imitate God’s love for him. And when one knows [as the cross demonstrates]
that God’s love is greater than all sin, one is free to see oneself in the light of
God’s justice and so rediscover one’s own sinfulness.”
humans even as I exclude myself from the community of sinners. But no one
can be in the presence of the God of the crucified Messiah for long without
overcoming this double exclusion — without transposing the enemy from the
sphere of the monstrous… into the sphere of shared humanity and herself from
the sphere of proud innocence into the sphere of common sinfulness. When
one knows [as the cross demonstrates] that the torturer will not eternally
triumph over the victim, one is free to rediscover that person’s humanity and
imitate God’s love for him. And when one knows [as the cross demonstrates]
that God’s love is greater than all sin, one is free to see oneself in the light of
God’s justice and so rediscover one’s own sinfulness.”
“When we
talk to our fellow men and they tell us about their troubles, we will listen to
them carefully if we have love for them. We will have compassion for their
suffering and pain, for we are God's creatures; we are a manifestation of the
love of God.”
If we deny
the grief its right in our lives, then we must question the love for which the
grief is supposedly rooted. God's grief is founded in His love for Himself and
His love for us. Looking at God as our model is healthy. Facing the pain means
honoring those with whom our love is rooted.”
“Here's the
paradox. We can fully embrace God's love only when we recognize how completely
unworthy of it we are.”
“Riches take
wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.”
“God is
willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.”
“Right now,
I am in Fallujah. I am in Darfur. I am on Sixty-third and Park having dinner
with Ellen Barkin and Ron Perelman... Right now, I'm on Lafayette and Astor
waiting to hit you up for change so I can get high. I'm taking a walk through
the Rose Garden with George Bush. I'm helping Donald Rumsfeld get a good
night's sleep...I was in that cave with Osama, and on that plane with Mohamed
Atta...And what I want you to know is that your work has barely begun. And what
I want you to trust is the efficacy of divine love if practiced consciously.
And what I need you to believe is that if you hate who I love, you do not know
me at all. And make no mistake, "Who I Love" is every last one. I am
every last one. People ask of me: Where are you? Where are you?...Verily I ask
of you to ask yourself: Where are you? Where are you?”
“If you have
never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never
asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.”
“There's one
thing you need to understand," Larry said. "We love because God first
loved us, even in the face of all our unloveliness." He paused. He seemed
to want to give John time to think about that. Then he said, "Go home and
love your wife John."
“We are
children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that
God loves us - not because we have deserved his love and not in spite of our
undeserving; not because we try and not because we recognize the futility of
our trying; but simply because he has chosen to love us. We are children
because he is our father; and all of our efforts, fruitful and fruitless, to do
good, to speak truth, to understand, are the efforts of children who, for all
their precocity, are children still in that before we loved him, he loved us,
as children, through Jesus Christ our lord
“...there
began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the
proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succor them; through
the spirit of a child, a poor gypsy or an old man, by a song perhaps, or even
it might be by the fall of a leaf or the scent of a flower. For His infinite
and humble patience nothing was too small to advance His purpose of salvation
and eternity was not too long for its accomplishment.”
“We obey
God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.”
“And human
love needs human meriting:
How has thou merited-
Of all man's clotted clay the dingiest clot?
Alack, thou knowest not
How little worthy of any love thou art!
Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee
Save Me, save only Me?”
How has thou merited-
Of all man's clotted clay the dingiest clot?
Alack, thou knowest not
How little worthy of any love thou art!
Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee
Save Me, save only Me?”
“And because
God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us
to love him, then we must be left free not to love him - we are free to resist
it, deny it, crucify it finally, which we do again and again. This is our
terrible freedom, which love refuses to overpower so that, in this, the
greatest of all powers, God's power, is itself powerless.”
“But O the
exceeding grace
Of highest God, that loves his creatures so,
And all his works with mercy doth embrace,
That blessed angels, he sends to and fro,
To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.”
Of highest God, that loves his creatures so,
And all his works with mercy doth embrace,
That blessed angels, he sends to and fro,
To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.”
“What makes
a man's 80 year-old Irish uncle skip like a little boy? "Me Father is very
fond of me!”
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