“Pray as if everything depended on God. Act as if everything depended on you.”
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“Pray as if everything depended on God. Act as if everything depended on you.”
Here in italics is “Letter to a Young Activist” as published in The Catholic Worker interspersed with my own commentary:
What a challenge that is . Any action one embarks on is undertaken with the hope of positive, tangible results. One must have hope that what you do will have an impact. But to the extent you... See more
Do not depend on the hope of results.
What a challenge that is . Any action one embarks on is undertaken with the hope of positive, tangible results. One must have hope that what you do will have an impact. But to the extent you... See more
Thomas Merton’s Letter to a Young Activist – Jim and Nancy Forest
We may feel like it’s better to do something (anything!) rather than simply pause and wait until more clarity comes, trusting the timeframe of our own intuition arising. When we feel the urgency to “do something,” or even to “just get started already,” the story of God’s creative process can remind us that pausing before taking action is actually a
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