“It is the special function of the Church to speak unceasingly and unfalteringly for this one supreme aspect of the future world, to insist in season and out of season that in it God and the service of God are to the highest good and satisfaction of mankind, that without which all other desirable things […]
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“If you see your neighbor’s failing and not your own you will be moved not to mercy but to indignation, not to help him but to judge him, not to instruct him in a spirit of gentleness but to destroy him in a spirit of anger.” Bernard of Clairvaux, “On Humility and Pride” from Selected
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And because the situation on the whole is this, namely, the profoundest indifference, it is made in turn all too easy for the individual who is a trifle more advanced to become self-important, as though he were the earnest man, a man of character, etc.—There is a young man—he feels indignant about the general lukewarmness
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“A daily portion is all that a man really wants. We do not need tomorrow’s supplies; that day has not yet dawned, and its wants are as yet unborn.” Charles Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, 14 February.
C.S. Lewis wrote a wonderful essay called “On the Reading of Old Books” that I absolutely love. Some seem to get the notion that Christianity hibernated between the ascension of Christ and the birth of Billy Graham. Not so! During some time off this summer I’ve been blessed by The Book of Pastoral Rule by
