"Unlike Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame, we need not hide all that is ugly and repulsive in us. Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don't have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazin' grace."
--Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel
"One saint used to say that she was the type of woman who advances more rapidly when she is drawn by love than when driven by fear. She was perceptive enough to know that we are all that type of person."
--Brennan Manning
"It is to the prodigals...that the memory of their Father's house comes back. If the son had lived economically he would never have thought of returning."
--Simone Weil
"Remember that the passion of Christ ends always in the joy of the resurrection of Christ, so when you feel in your own heart the suffering of Christ, remember the ressurection has to come. Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen."
--Mother Teresa
"In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise."
--WH Auden
"God rejoices. Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, nor because thousands of people have been converted and are now praising him for his goodness. No, God rejoices because one of his children who was lost has been found."
--Henri Nouwen
No comments:
Post a Comment