Thursday, December 26, 2013
God Comes As A Baby - Defenseless And In Need Of Our Help
God’s sign is simplicity. God’s sign is the baby. God’s sign is that he makes himself small for us. This is how he reigns. He does not come with power and outward splendour. He comes as a baby – defenceless and in need of our help. He does not want to overwhelm us with his strength. He takes away our fear of his greatness. He asks for our love: so he makes himself a child. He wants nothing other from us than our love, through which we spontaneously learn to enter into his feelings, his thoughts and his will – we learn to live with him and to practise with him that humility of renunciation that belongs to the very essence of love. God made himself small so that we could understand him, welcome him, and love him. - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Fight All Error...But Do It With Good Humor, Patience, Kindness, And Love.
Fight all error, but do it with good humor, patience, kindness, and love. Harshness will damage your own soul and spoil the best cause. - Saint John of Kanty
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For Love To Be Real - It Must Hurt, It Must Empty Us Of Self.
Love, to be real, it must cost - it must hurt - it must empty us of self. - Blessed Mother Teresa
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