If you take nothing else away, this article’s point is that you have to voluntarily give up things to strengthen your will and prepare yourself for something you cannot or do not foresee.
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Narnia and Lord of the Rings on ‘being Dangerous’
Today, we’re often afraid of that which is “dangerous.” We prefer to stick to the comfortable, recognizable. Such beliefs were not the notion of the two most famous Inklings, who used the word much more deliberately.
Leaving the Ninety-Nine
Sometimes you will feel like your world is falling apart. Sometimes you will feel that you can’t push on any further. Sometimes you will feel completely overwhelmed that you seem to be paralyzed. Don’t be afraid of these feelings.
So Many Things
We fill up our lives with so much stuff that we lose sight of what is truly important. Stuff is not limited to merely material things. Stuff can be too many extracurriculars, spending too much time at work, TV, social media, and more. Worrying about all of these things can be debilitating. Your patience growsContinue reading “So Many Things”
Walking into the Storm
In a like manner, we often complain, grunt, and groan when we are faced with a storm in our lives. But what if that storm is there not to hurt us but to help us grow? How would your circumstances change if you looked at it as an opportunity to encounter God and grow instead of seeing it as a burden?
Third Sunday After Pentecost
We have a mission. We have a role. Being too nice and harmless can be harmful to the mission we are called to in this life. Christians are hated and persecuted. But, nevertheless, we must keep pushing. We must not stop. Jesus was hated by many but that did not stop Him and it must not stop us also.
Surface Level
It is of the utmost importance for the progression of society for there to be civil discourse between educated, mature individuals. Without this, we will begin to fall apart.
Answering a Common Objection to Christianity
“‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.’ In Christianity, we have God’s full revelation to humanity. It’s true that all religions contain some measure of truth — the amount varying with the religion. Nevertheless, if we earnestly want to follow and worship God, shouldn’t we do it in the way He prescribed?
If Jesus is indeed God, then only Christianity contains the fullness of this truth.”
Our Lives Are Not Our Own
Your relationship with God is your most important relationship. You must take a look at your life to make sure you are not allowing things to come between you and Him.
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
“In God’s dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares while remaining one cube. Of course we cannot fully conceive a Being like that: just as, if we were so made that we perceived only two dimensions in space we could never properly imagine a cube. But we can get a sort of faint notion of it. And when we do, we are then, for the first time in our lives, getting some positive idea, however faint, of something super-personal – something more than a person. It is something we could never have guessed, and yet, once we have been told, one almost feels one ought to have been able to guess it because it fits in so well with all the things we know already.” (Harper Collins version, p161-162)
Catholicism Rekindled 