Entries tagged with “discover”.

Did you find what you wanted?

Mon 26 Jul 2010

Then discover that God is present


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You see, the big thing for me is to love reality and not live in the imagination, not live in what could have been or what should have been or what can be, and somewhere, to love reality and then discover that God is present.

~Jean Vanier, via Pax Christi Facebook Page

Tags: Christ, discover, facebook, god, imagination, jean vanier, Live, love, pax christi, see

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Mon 15 Mar 2010

I cannot discover…


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I cannot discover God in myself and myself in Him unless I have the courage to face myself exactly as I am, with all my limitations, and to accept others as they are, with all their limitations.

~ Thomas Merton (Another great quote from what is quickly becoming one of my favorite web stopping places — Little Portion Hermitage)

Tags: courage, discover, god, little portion hermitage, Thomas Merton

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Fri 12 Mar 2010

Regardless of the consequences


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The alarming, effervescent, energizing, and contagious freedom of the saints flows from their having learned this lesson. They no longer gauge their actions or decisions by what other people will think of them. And so they don’t live in fear, instability, and hesitancy. Rather, they have discovered that God’s love for them is as firm as the mountains (as the Psalms tell us). They don’t need to earn it; they just humbly accept it. And once they do, it propels them to echo and reflect it spontaneously and joyfully, regardless of the consequences.

~Fr John Bartunek, LC, STL, “A Question about the Litany of Humility in Lent – How can I be freed from the desire of being loved?”

Tags: consequences, desire, discover, effervescent, fear, Freedom, god, humility, John Bartunek, joy, Lent, lesson, Litany, litany of humility, love, Psalms, saints, spirit

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Sun 31 Jan 2010

The self we become in true prayer…


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Who we become in God is then his work and not our own success in conforming to some ideal. The self we become in true prayer is seldom the self we envisioned, but it is a new and marvelous self that God fashions out of the gradual redeeming of the false self we now acknowledge as the work of our own misguided idealism. We then know God in what he has done in us to enable us to discover our true face. And in that face only do we see the reflection of God as he really is.

~Murray Bodo, O.F.M. — The Way of St. Francis: The Challenge of Franciscan Spirituality for Everyone

Tags: discover, false self, franciscan spirituality, god, murray bodo, reflection, st francis, success, true face, true prayer

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