Your faith deserves it, so let this be done for you.
God, I offer you my spiritual aridity and deprivations.
God, I offer you my spiritual aridity and deprivations.
The pure of heart are the blessed ones, Christ tells us, because having rid themselves of every distraction, their eyes remain fixed upon God alone.
In saying Deliver us from evil we also say, though implicitly, Deliver us from the Evil One.
God's love has all the characteristics of the love we idealise in our ardent dreams, for we all dream; it so becomes the human heart to dream.
On the one hand, there is the sadness of the world—and on the other hand, when I went to church today the place was flooded with sunshine, and it was a clear, cold day outside.
Years ago, I remember reading a book written by an evangelical, fundamentalist Christian. In it, the woman described being an exhausted, sleep deprived mother to many and being up late one night doing laundry.
The thoughts of Jesus are not our thoughts and his ways are not our ways.
We must have our mind settled on two points: one, to expect the growth of weeds in our garden; the other, to have courage to witness their removal, and to lend a hand ourselves.