Tuesday, August 3, 2010

GOD, WHAT'S THERE 
TO DO ON A RAINY 
SUNDAY AFTERNOON?   




Quote for this Sunday - August 8, 2010


Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”


Susan Ertz [1894-1985] Anger in the Sky, (1943), page. 137
THANK  YOU!


Quote for the Day - August 7, 2010


“If the only prayer you say in your life is ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.”


Meister Eckhart [c. 1260 – c. 1237]
TRANSFIGURATION




Feast of the Transfiguration - August  6, 2010


Quote for the Day

“In the beauty of the lilies
Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom
that transfigures you and me;
And he died to make men holy,
let us die to make men free.”


Julia Ward Howe [1819-1910], Battle Hymn of the Republic [1962], stanza 5

Lilium Martagon or Turks Cap Lily - off Internet
SHUT UP  
AND LISTEN  
TO WHAT 
THE OTHER  
PERSON  
IS SAYING.




Quote for the Day - August 5, 2010


“Ideas are like children – our own are very wonderful.”


Anonymous
RELIGION 
IS INTO 
RELATIONSHIPS




Quote for the Day - August 4,  2010


“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.”


G. K. Chesterton [1874-1936]
RISKING 
ONE'S LIFE -
FOR WHAT?






Quote for the Day  - August 3, 2010


"If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?"


Andre Malraux [1901-1976]

Monday, August 2, 2010











THE  UNEXPRESSED 


Quote for the Day - August 2, 2010


"We walk through volumes of the unexpressed and like snails leave behind a faint thread excreted out of ourselves."


John Updike [1932-2010], The Blessed Man of Boston