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As a huge fan of Thomas Merton I really enjoyed and highly recommend this audio book, especially if—like me—you’re not at a place where you can read all seven volumes of his journals. Overall, Intimate Merton gave me a greater appreciation for Thomas...more |
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| Just one listen and that's not enough. Like Contemplative Prayer I am going to need to listen to this again ... and probably again and again before I can write a review. He's not easy! But taking a break in between to listen to The Intimate Merton: H...more | |
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Seven Lonely Places, Seven Warm Places: The Vices and Virtues for Children
by April Bolton
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| Looking at the "deadly" sins as places we choose to go to is something which children (of all ages) can relate to. I've used Ms. Bolton's book in several Religious Education classes, as well as with my own children, with great success. It works well...more | |
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The Journey: A Spiritual Roadmap for Modern Pilgrims
by Peter Kreeft
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read in May, 2006
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“The complaint was the answer. To have heard myself making it was to be answered. Lightly men talk of saying what they mean. Often when he was teaching me to write in Greek the Fox would say, 'Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.'
A glib saying. When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
A glib saying. When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
“Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
“But was you not afraid, good sir, when you see him come with his club?"
"It is my duty," said he, "to distrust mine own ability, that I may have reliance on him that is stronger than all".”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
"It is my duty," said he, "to distrust mine own ability, that I may have reliance on him that is stronger than all".”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress
“This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Manalive
― G.K. Chesterton, Manalive
“Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
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