“Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the efficacy of baptism or to explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though it is our second is yet our first in Christ.” TryingFirstsOrderChristFailingBirthHolyLaysScriptureDoctrineMysteriousRelatePassagesBaptismHoly ScripturesEfficacy Book:The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition) Source: The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)
“Whatever else you fail of, do not fail of the influence of the Holy Spirit; that is the only way you can handle the consciences of men.” MenWaySpiritFailingInfluenceHolyConscienceHandleHoly Spirit Author:David Brainerd
“The most precise and thoughtful scholar is limited in what he knows and wrong in some things that he affirms; the most devoted saint is stained with sin and full of error; the bravest heart among us will fail and break; but Christ is altogether lovely, holy, and unfailing.” KnowsHeartChristSinBreakFailingHolyErrorsSaintLovelyThoughtfulScholarDevotedPrecise Author:Paul Washer
“So your strength is failing you? Why don't you tell your mother about it? ... Mother! Call her with a loud voice. She is listening to you; she sees you in danger, perhaps, and she-your holy mother Mary-offers you, along with the grace of her son, the refuge of her arms, the tenderness of her embrace ... and you will find yourself with added strength for the new battle.” ChristianMotherVoiceGraceFailingDangerSonArmsListeningHolyBattleOffersEmbraceLoudFinding YourselfMaryTendernessRefugeLoud VoicesHoly MaryMother Mary Author:Josemaria Escriva
“Andorrans deserve much better than the rule of superstitious hysterics and extreme authoritarians, who try to instill obedience to their Holy Texts and chosen Divinities - and we should not fail to see that the terms are appropriate, if anything too kind.” IfsShouldTryingKindTermFailingHolyDeserveExtremesChosenObedienceDivinityAppropriateSuperstitiousInstill Author:Noam Chomsky
“To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The gospel portrait of the beloved Child of Abba is that of a man exquisitely attuned to His emotions and uninhibited in expressing them. The Son of Man did not scorn of reject feelings as fickle and unreliable. They were sensitive antennae to which He listened carefully and through which He perceived the will of His Father for congruent speech and action.” MenChildrenFeelingsActionSpiritFatherJesusEmotionFailingEmotionalSonHolySpeechMovedBelovedSensitiveHoly SpiritRejectsSpiritual LifePortraitsScornStirringFickleUnreliableEmotional LifeAbbaAbba Father Author:Brennan Manning
“I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will be the same wall between my soul's holy of holies and other people, even my wife, I'll accuse her in the same way of my own fear and then regret it, I'll fail in the same way to understand with my reason why I pray, and yet I will pray--but my life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!” PeopleWayMindMaySoulReasonWholeHappensSpeakMy OwnWifeFailingMinutesRegretWallPrayingHolyAngryMy WifeArguingWhole LifeMy SoulReason WhyMeaninglessI Pray Author:Leo Tolstoy
“You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way, if your only source of love and meaning is your spouse, then anytime he or she fails you, it will not just cause grief but a psychological cataclysm. If, however, you know something of the work of the Spirit in your life, you have enough love "in the bank" to be generous to your spouse even when you are not getting much affection or kindness at the moment.” IfsKnowsWayGivingEnoughMomentsSpiritCausesGriefMarriageKindnessFailingSourceHolyAffectionPsychologicalGenerousHoly SpiritSpouseEnough Love Author:Timothy Keller
“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.” ThinkingNeedsMeanLittlesFactsMistakeEducationTeachLearningFailingSeeingTeachingModernDutyHolyMiracleMethodPlantCuriosityEducationalGravesRuinsEnjoymentInstructionDelicateInquiryCoercionSelf EducationSchooledStimulationGreat EducationTeaching And LearningEducation And TeachersUnschoolingGreat EducationalTeaching And EducationTeaching EducationTeaching LearningGreat TeachingPhilosophy Of EducationFree EducationEducation And FreedomModern EducationMethods Of Teaching Book:The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works Source: The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works