I was so foolish and ignorant; I was like a beast before You. Nevertheless I am continually with You; You hold me by my right hand. You guide me with Your counsel, and afterwards receive me to glory.
Book: Psalm 73: versus 22 -24 (New King James Bible)
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried. (G. K. Chesterton)
Speech: The Harvard Veritas Forum (1992)
When the entire human race had fallen in it first parents, God in His mercy willed in such a manner to bring succour through His only begotten Son Jesus Christ to the creature made in His own image, that its second state should excel beyond the dignity of its original state. Happy if it had not fallen from what God made it, but happier if it remain in what He has re-made (quoting St. Leo the Great, Sermo 72, c II).
Book: Spiritual Childhood The Spirituality of St. Therese of Lisieux
By sharing our suffering, by living side by side with us, Our Lord enables us to sanctify it all.
Suffering united to love is the only thing which appears to me desirable in this valley of tears (quoting St. Therese).
Time is but a shadow, a dream. Already God sees us in glory, He rejoices in our eternal happiness. How this thought sustains my soul! I understand then why he lets me suffer (quoting St. Therese).
Suffering united to love is the only thing which appears to me desirable in this valley of tears (quoting St. Therese).
Time is but a shadow, a dream. Already God sees us in glory, He rejoices in our eternal happiness. How this thought sustains my soul! I understand then why he lets me suffer (quoting St. Therese).
Book: Spiritual Childhood The Spirituality of St. Therese of Lisieux
Though we would strenuously deny it if charged with it, we do in fact behave as if God himself had been taken off his guard by the Fall, as if he had not quite got the situation in hand.
To be more than resigned, to embrace the Cross with joy, we must see it not as an emergency measure, but as part of the eternal rhythm of the invincible will of the Father, who ordains all things, even the most minute and insignificant, with fatherly love.
To be more than resigned, to embrace the Cross with joy, we must see it not as an emergency measure, but as part of the eternal rhythm of the invincible will of the Father, who ordains all things, even the most minute and insignificant, with fatherly love.
Book: Spiritual Childhood The Spirituality of St. Therese of Lisieux
The Christian life is different: harder, and easier. Christ says, “Give me all, I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work. I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good. I don’t want to cut off a branch here and a branch there, I want to have the whole tree down. Hand over the whole natural self, all the desire which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked — the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself; my own will shall become yours.” C.S. Lewis
Where does this come from? This 3 into the 1 joke format? It’s been the bedrock of our humor for many years. 3 blokes go into a pub. 3 into the 1. 3 into the 1. 3 things go into 1 thing and then humor—with a cur.
It’s always the same. It’s very similar to the holy trinity of the Christian faith. I’m sure you’re very aware of that. The god-head: the 3 gods go into a god. Maybe that subconsciously we’ve picked that up over the years. It’s embedded in our comedy consciousness. 3 gods go into a god. You get somebody to explain the trinity to you. They’ll say, “Well God—he’s God, Jesus is God as well, and the holy spirit is err…[gibberish]”
What? He’s the fecking spirit of the Lord who impregnates Mary, then gets a bit up himself, and is reduced to light clerical duties. Let’s examine that in joke form: 3 male divine natures go into a cosmic essence giving and receiving love—but not in a gay bishop way—to which the whole of Islam goes, “What?”
It’s always the same. It’s very similar to the holy trinity of the Christian faith. I’m sure you’re very aware of that. The god-head: the 3 gods go into a god. Maybe that subconsciously we’ve picked that up over the years. It’s embedded in our comedy consciousness. 3 gods go into a god. You get somebody to explain the trinity to you. They’ll say, “Well God—he’s God, Jesus is God as well, and the holy spirit is err…[gibberish]”
What? He’s the fecking spirit of the Lord who impregnates Mary, then gets a bit up himself, and is reduced to light clerical duties. Let’s examine that in joke form: 3 male divine natures go into a cosmic essence giving and receiving love—but not in a gay bishop way—to which the whole of Islam goes, “What?”
Comedy routine: “Part Troll”
You’re not making Christianity better, you’re just making rock and roll worse.
TV: King of the Hill
Let your thoughts be psalms, your prayers incense, and your breath praise.
It says something about our times that we rarely use the word sinful, except to describe a really good desert.
People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord.
We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.
We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.