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Someone like that—someone who refuses to put off joining the elect—is a kind of priest, a servant of the gods, in touch with what is within him and what keeps a person undefiled by pleasures, invulnerable to any pain, untouched by arrogance, unaffected by meanness, an athlete in the greatest of all contests—the struggle not to be overwhelmed by any
... See moreAurelius, Marcus • Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library)
Never did he allow the meannesses of human respect to degrade his Christian dignity.
de Lisieux Thérèse • The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse
«No es posible amar a la humanidad entera –nosotros queremos a todas las almas, y no rechazamos a nadie– si no es desde la Cruz»7: desde esa Cruz que se levanta –llena de eficacia, por los méritos infinitos de Cristo– en la Santa Misa.
Javier Echevarría Rodríguez • Vivir la Santa Misa (Patmos) (Spanish Edition)
“What we are looking for is what is looking.” —St Francis of Assisi
Angelo Dilullo • Awake: It's Your Turn
to enter negation is to be a minister who seeks not death but union. The transcendent mystery is that when negation—elimination of being by some force—is shared by both human and divine persons, it creates the deepest of unions. It creates a space where the Spirit moves, turning death into life, joining what is not God with God.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
Pavel Florensky
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
“Lord, make me a channel of thy peace—that where there is hatred, I may bring love—that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness—that where there is discord, I may bring harmony—that where there is error, I may bring truth—that where there is doubt, I may bring faith—that where there is despair, I may bring hope—that where there
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