Carina Bonella Gawel
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Carina Bonella Gawel
“You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”3 Packed into this one line is wisdom that should radically change how we approach worship, discipleship, and Christian formation.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; 1718 and God never ceases to draw man to himself. Only in God will he find the truth and happiness he never stops searching for:
John Paul II, The Catholic Church • Catechism of the Catholic Church
We are treating as ultimate what is only penultimate; we are heaping infinite, immortal expectations on created things that will pass away; we are settling on some aspect of the creation rather than being referred through it to its Creator.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
“To believe in Christ for salvation,” he says, “means to have confidence that He can remove the guilt of sin and give eternal life [read heaven]. It means to believe that He can solve the problem of sin [read guilt] which is what keeps a person out of heaven.”13
Dallas Willard • The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
Henrik Karlssonhenrikkarlsson.xyz
C. S. Lewis says at the end of his great chapter on hope, reorient the entire focus of your life toward God. He concludes, “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world [something supernatural and eternal].”35
Timothy Keller • Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
“But why would God work the way he does? Well, it is a commonplace of the Bible that God rejoices in our cooperation. He wants us to participate, through freedom, intelligence, and creativity, in what he is doing. And so he plants seeds, and he wants us to cultivate them.” Why God Starts Small, Bishop Barron
Catholic doctrine does not just prescribe how a person should live, but describes the very nature of existence through the lens of Christ, the Messiah of Israel and Savior of the world. What I “believe in,” therefore, is what I acknowledge as the ground of my being. What I “believe in” is what has been revealed to me as the truth about the way... See more
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You and I are made by God and for God. Our home is in God. We are beloved. We are dependent. We need God, every second of every day, if we are going to be happy or good, much less both. Very little is worth knowing more than this.