“Why should you worry whether God wants you to reach the heavenly home by way of the desert or by the fields, when by the one as well as by the other one arrives all the same at a Blessed Eternity? Keep far from you excessive preoccupation which arises from the trials which the good God wishes to visit upon you.” WayWantShouldWellsHomeSufferingWishWorryFieldsEternityBlessedTrialsAriseDesertHeavenlyPreoccupationGood GodHeavenly Home Author:Pio of Pietrelcina
“A lost sheep is, for all practical purposes a dead sheep. It is the admission that we are dead in our sins---that we have no power of ourselves either to save ourselves or to convince anyone else that we are worth saving. It is the recognition that our whole life is out of our hands and that if we ever live again, our life will be entirely the gift of some gracious shepherd. God finds us the desert of death (not in the garden of improvement) and in the power of Jesus' resurrection, he puts us on his shoulders rejoicing and brings us home.” IfsWholeHomeHandsLife IsPurposeJesusLostSinOur LivesGardenWhole LifeImprovementPracticalsShouldersSavingRecognitionDesertConvinceRejoiceResurrectionSheepGraciousShepherdsAdmissionJesus Resurrection Author:Robert Farrar Capon
“How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the horror of uninhabitable deserts; who have flung themselves into humiliation, degradation, and the contempt of the world, and have enjoyed these and even sought them out.” KnowsWorldHomeHorrorEnjoyedDesertContemptSweetnessHumiliationDegradationTranquil Book:Complete Essays Source: Complete Essays
“I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home.” FeelsHomeEnvironmentFunctionStudiosDesertArtificialJungleAlaskaAntarcticaSaharaSahara Desert Author:Werner Herzog
“There's a belief that wherever your Ancestors took shape from the sticks and stones that formed them, that's home. Ancestors from the coast leave their mark, Ancestors from the mountains, from the desert, they all leave their mark on the genes. When you come home, the genes rejoice.” HomeBeliefShapesMountainStonesRootsMarkSticksDesertComing HomeRejoiceAncestorGenesCoastSticks And Stones Book:No Defense Source: No Defense