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The Joy of Being Human: Reflections for Every Day of the Year
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“This is the homely heart of Incarnation, this meeting of God in man with men and women, this simple face of divine graciousness in ordinary life rather than in the hymns of church fathers or in the dry elaborations of theologians.”
― The Joy of Being Human: Reflections for Every Day of the Year
― The Joy of Being Human: Reflections for Every Day of the Year
“To be human is nothing less than to be caught in the great congested pilgrimage of existence and to join ourselves freely to it in the face of the evidence of its never-ending troubles.”
― The Joy of Being Human: Reflections for Every Day of the Year
― The Joy of Being Human: Reflections for Every Day of the Year
“(re: Matthew 7:21 - "Knowing the correct password - saying 'Master, Master', for instance - isn't going to get you anywhere with Me. What's required is serious obedience doing what my Father wills.")
"This is a passage for all those who understand, as Jesus has said, that belief in Him is proved in ordinary life rather than in extraordinary practices, and that the good Shepherd whose simple garb matches his mission, stands at the center of the true Kingdom.”
― The Joy of Being Human: Reflections for Every Day of the Year
"This is a passage for all those who understand, as Jesus has said, that belief in Him is proved in ordinary life rather than in extraordinary practices, and that the good Shepherd whose simple garb matches his mission, stands at the center of the true Kingdom.”
― The Joy of Being Human: Reflections for Every Day of the Year
“(re: Matthew 4)
" 'Give in for now': what a strange thing for Jesus to say to a steadfast and protesting prophet; and yet what a comforting thing for those of us who cannot live in fiercely absolute ways.
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Jesus the Lord enters our life as it is and calls us not away but more deeply into it.”
― The Joy of Being Human: Reflections for Every Day of the Year
" 'Give in for now': what a strange thing for Jesus to say to a steadfast and protesting prophet; and yet what a comforting thing for those of us who cannot live in fiercely absolute ways.
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Jesus the Lord enters our life as it is and calls us not away but more deeply into it.”
― The Joy of Being Human: Reflections for Every Day of the Year
“John (the Baptist) stands as prophets do to this very day, as an unyielding presence unsettling us and leaving us not quite sure of how we feel about him.
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And yet John seems hard to know, hard to like even though we stand back in admiration of him. We react the same way to most absolute figured.”
― The Joy of Being Human: Reflections for Every Day of the Year
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And yet John seems hard to know, hard to like even though we stand back in admiration of him. We react the same way to most absolute figured.”
― The Joy of Being Human: Reflections for Every Day of the Year
