Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress our wounds, you who resist us and yield to us, you who wreck and build, you who shackle and liberate, the sap of our souls, the hand of God, the flesh of Christ: it is you, matter, that I bless.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinDoubt is a creature within the air.
It grows when someone hesitates.
Tags: truth doubt hesitation spirit ghost creature
Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (...) Even when she was winning, her civilian statesmen, her High Command, and her soldiers repeated that this was no contest between armaments; it was pitting of our faith in things against their faith in spirit.
Ruth BenedictTags: war faith united-states victory spirit japan materialism
Sometimes that
which we fear
strengthens our
spirit and gives
us a splash
of hope.
Tags: fear strength hope spirit splash
What matters most:
"What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh."
Wind, Sand and Stars.
We are spirits clad in veils.
Christopher Pearse CranchTags: poetry spiritual soul spirituality spirit spiritual-wisdom cranch
For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God.
Brennan ManningTags: god mercy prayer poverty spirit ragamuffin
We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible.
Tim O'BrienA tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.
Vera NazarianTags: thought assumptions spirit insight disaster disasters forge mindset earthquake tornado natural-disasters
When you are attracted to, and eat, fruits, occasionally a seed will be carried within you to a fertile ground.
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