"People often think of Christian morality
as a kind of bargain in which God says, ‘If you keep a lot of rules I’ll reward
you, and if you don’t I’ll do the other thing.’ I do not think that is the best
way of looking at it. I would much rather say that every time you make a choice
you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into
something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a
whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly
turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish
creature: either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other
creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and
hatred with God, and with its fellow-creatures, and with itself. To be the one
kind of creature is heaven: that is, it is joy and peace and knowledge and
power. To be the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and
eternal loneliness. Each of us at this moment is progressing to the one state
or the other."
— C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, p. 92
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Welcoming suffering?
"Consider that the love of divine charity
is so closely joined in the soul with perfect patience, that neither can leave
the soul without the other. For this reason (if the soul elect to love Me) she
should elect to endure pains for Me in whatever mode or circumstance I may send
them to her. Patience cannot be proved in any other way than by suffering, and
patience is united with love as has been said. Therefore bear yourselves with
manly courage, for, unless you do so, you will not prove yourselves to be spouses
of My Truth, and faithful children, nor of the company of those who relish the
taste of My honor, and the salvation of souls."
— St. Catherine Of Siena,
Monday, June 26, 2017
Get ready...
"One of our sure guides along the path of
life is that we do not know when earthly life will come to an end. How
important that our repentance for past and present transgressions be a daily
practice."
— Rev. Thomas J. Donaghy,
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