Sublime
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“perfection consists in being what God wants us to be.”
Kathleen Norris • The Cloister Walk
“he recognized that the purpose of individual growth is to share with others.”
Kathleen Norris • The Cloister Walk
Maybe Mary’s story, and this feast, tell us that if the scriptures don’t sometimes pierce us like a sword, we’re not paying close enough attention.
Kathleen Norris • The Cloister Walk
A prophet’s task is to reveal the fault lines hidden beneath the comfortable surface of the worlds we invent for ourselves, the national myths as well as the little lies and delusions of control and security that get us through the day.
Kathleen Norris • The Cloister Walk
“I have found my calling: my call is love,” and writes: “In the heart of the Church, my mother, I will be love, and thus I will be all things . . .”
Kathleen Norris • The Cloister Walk
her quiet creed: “Our faith might cause our light to shine on some other heart which as yet had no light of its own.”
Natalie Dykstra • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
To make the poem of our faith, we must learn not to settle for a false certitude but to embrace ambiguity and mystery.
Kathleen Norris • The Cloister Walk
on this day worship reinforced my conviction that only Christ could have brought all of us together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.