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Just started. Very interesting. I had no idea how diverse the sources are for what we now know as “The Bible.” Found it on Abe Books for $6.47 plus tax and shipping, hardcover.
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“One pot of soup or a pot of coffee and some bread is sufficient to make a beginning. You can feed the immediate ones who come and God will send what is needed to continue the work. He has done so over and over again in history. We”
― Hold Nothing Back: Writings by Dorothy Day
― Hold Nothing Back: Writings by Dorothy Day
“Don't you know that love isn't just going to bed? Love isn't an act, it's a whole life. It's staying with her now because she needs you; it's knowing you and she will still care about each other when sex and daydreams, fights and futures -- when all that's on the shelf and done with. Love -- why, I'll tell you what love is: it's you at seventy-five and her at seventy-one, each of you listening for the other's step in the next room, each afraid that a sudden silence, a sudden cry, could mean a lifetime's talk is over.”
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“When you look for God,
God is in the look of your eyes
In the thought of looking, nearer to you than your self,
or things that have happened to you
There’s no need to go outside.
Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself.
A white flower grows in the quietness.
Let your tongue become that flower.”
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God is in the look of your eyes
In the thought of looking, nearer to you than your self,
or things that have happened to you
There’s no need to go outside.
Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself.
A white flower grows in the quietness.
Let your tongue become that flower.”
―
“Why don’t the priests do this or that?” or “Why don’t they [that indefinite they] do this or that?” we should reply, “Why don’t we all?”
― Hold Nothing Back: Writings by Dorothy Day
― Hold Nothing Back: Writings by Dorothy Day
“A Prayer by Thomas Merton My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”
― The Ignatian Adventure: Experiencing the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in Daily Life
― The Ignatian Adventure: Experiencing the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in Daily Life
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