God’s primary way of ruling and acting on our planet is through people. When God wants something done in the world, God calls people to do it. …God’s primary way of working in the world is through people who are empowered and led by God’s spirit.

p. 12, Why? Making sense of God’s will, Adam Hamilton.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

p. 107, Listen, S. S. Tolan

Have mercy on those who doubt.

When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.

Jean Paul Sartre

1. God is who he say’s he is.
2. God can do what he says he can do.
3. I am who god says i am.
4. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
5. god’s word is alive and working in me.

p. 86, dying to live, having a Mary spirit, Joanna weaver.

Nothing is so difficult, as not deceiving oneself.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The only healthy type of self-examination, according to Smith, “for one look at self, take ten looks at Christ”.

Hannah Whitaker Smith, quoted in Bruce Wilkinsons, 30 Days to Experiencing Spiritual Breakthrough (Sisters, OR: Multnomah, 1999), 62, 64-65.

p. 84, Dying to Live, Having a Mary Spirit, Joanna Weaver.

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

Stephen R. Covey

Benedictus, volume 4, issue 4

Holy Mass 21 April 2024

May the Lord enkindle in us the fire of his love and the flame of his everlasting charity. Amen.

It is the mother of all virtues.
Humility without reverence is a soul without a body, just as reverence without humility is a body without a soul.

p. 212, Fr Joseph Duenser, Unto the Altar, April 2024, vol 4, issue 4