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Love gives you eyes.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.
From Jesus-Shock
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By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.
From Jesus-Shock
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Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.
From Jesus-Shock
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It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.
From Jesus-Shock
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The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Inspirational, Philosophical, Relationships
God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two persons, (3) the immediate situation in which they find themselves and (4) the larger social, cultural and historical situation surrounding them.
From Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics
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Topic: Relationships
The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a mother. [. . .] The will-parent must discipline the mind-child, avoiding both the opposite extremes commonly made in disciplining either children or thoughts: tyranny or permissiveness.
From Prayer for Beginners
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Topic: Philosophical
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.
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Topic: Hope
We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.
From Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics
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Topic: Philosophical
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Love gives you eyes.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Inspirational, Philosophical, Relationships
God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two persons, (3) the immediate situation in which they find themselves and (4) the larger social, cultural and historical situation surrounding them.
From Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics
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Topic: Relationships
The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a mother. [. . .] The will-parent must discipline the mind-child, avoiding both the opposite extremes commonly made in disciplining either children or thoughts: tyranny or permissiveness.
From Prayer for Beginners
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Topic: Philosophical
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.
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Topic: Hope
We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.
From Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics
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Topic: Philosophical
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Love gives you eyes.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Inspirational, Philosophical, Relationships
God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two persons engaged in dialogue, (2) the relationship between the two persons, (3) the immediate situation in which they find themselves and (4) the larger social, cultural and historical situation surrounding them.
From Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics
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Topic: Relationships
The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a mother. [. . .] The will-parent must discipline the mind-child, avoiding both the opposite extremes commonly made in disciplining either children or thoughts: tyranny or permissiveness.
From Prayer for Beginners
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Topic: Philosophical
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
It is just as crazy not to be crazy about Christ as it is to be crazy about anything else.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.
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Topic: Hope
We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.
From Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics
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Topic: Philosophical
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
Sacraments are like hoses. They are the channels of the living water of God's grace. Our faith is like opening the faucet. We can open it a lot, a little, or not at all.
From Jesus-Shock
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Topic: Philosophical
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