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wisdom destiny work-out
Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....To work out our identity in God. Thomas Merton
wisdom sadness reality
The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.
wisdom may sometimes
God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present.
wisdom ideas
Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
wisdom men order
It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one another. Wisdom without science is unable to penetrate the full sapiential meaning of the created and the material cosmos. Science without wisdom leaves man enslaved to a world of unrelated objects in which there is no way of discovering (or creating) order and deep significance in man's own pointless existence. (p. 4)
wisdom book love-you
Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.
wisdom men succeed
A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
wisdom people survival
I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. If modern people were a little less sane, a little more doubtful, a little more aware of their absurdities and contradictions, perhaps there might be the possibility of their survival.
wisdom violence cease
Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
may gray existence
Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence. Thomas Ligotti
may barbecue comes-and-goes
Friends may come and go, but barbecues accumulate. Thomas Jones
may reign rebel
Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint. Thomas Brooks
may theater mankind
Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers ... Vernon Lee
may facts belief
A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life. Vannevar Bush
may facts spirit
To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.
may littles cost
He who serves God with what costs him nothing, will do very little service, you may depend on it. Susan Warner
may boon born
To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all. Sophocles
may speak said
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy. Stephen King
sometimes sad-things happens
Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen. Mitch Albom