From Reinhold Neibuhr, An Interpretation of Christian Ethics (1935) at page 138:
There is no deeper pathos in the spiritual life of man than the cruelty of righteous people.
From Reinhold Neibuhr, An Interpretation of Christian Ethics (1935) at page 138:
There is no deeper pathos in the spiritual life of man than the cruelty of righteous people.
2006
From Paul Zahl, Love comprehended in Faith" in The Living Pulpit, July-September, 1992:
Works of love are the creation of a shattered spirit that has been reconciled into repair and rescued into unity by God’s grace.
2006
From Barbara Harrison:
If you love a neighbor, and again not simply indulging in fuzzy feelings but rather in the active, unconditional nurture of Agape – in the love by which we act each other into well being” you will find that it leads both to love of God and love of self as well.
From Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline at page 130:
Our flesh tends to whine whenever we’re summonded to service, but it positively screams when we’re summoned to humble, invisible acts of service.
From Henry Ward Beecher, The Blind Restored to Sight, (December 22, 1861):
The same Christ who by a word brought forth the light in the morning of creation, now by a word brought dawn to a blind man’s eyes.” RefMgr field[18]: Was Blind but Now I See
From Paul Tillich, Systematic Theology, vol. 1 (September 15, 1973) at page 277:
Paul Tillich taught that whatever words we use to utter our prayer, the decisive content, even if it is a hidden content, lies in our surrendering a fragment of existence to God – lies in our heart, entrusting it’s deepest concerns to God’s care.
1996
From Harold Masback, Be Still!" (August 11, 1996):
In the 4th century, Christian monks in the desert told the story of the Desert Fathers who said, “Just as it is impossible for a man to see his face in troubled water, so too the soul, unless it be cleansed of alien thoughts, cannot pray to God in contemplation.”
From Paul Tillich:
Deep down at the heart of things, down at the very center of our religious instinct is a deep, uncomfortable and only partly conscious sense that something is not quite right. Something in our lives, in creation, is distorted, split, separated from the way it is meant to be.”
From Saint Teresa of Avila:
400 years ago
Christ has no body now on earth but yours; No hands but yours; No feet but yours; Yours are the eyes through which is to look out Christ’s compassion to the world; Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good; Yours are the hands with which he is to bless now.