Pondering Tidbits of Truth - Week of August 30, 2012
Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time.
From St. Thomas Aquinas
“Man should not consider his material possessions his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.”
“Imagine the anguish and
tears of a mother who is present at a painful operation her child has to undergo.
Can anyone doubt on seeing her that she consents to allow the child to suffer
only because she expects it to get well and be spared further suffering by
means of this violent remedy?
Reason in the same
manner when adversity befalls you. You complain that you are ill-treated,
insulted, slandered, robbed. Your redeemer (the name is a tenderer one than
that of father or mother), your Redeemer is a witness to all you are suffering.
He who loves you and has emphatically declared that whoever touches you touches
the apple of His eye, nevertheless allows you to be stricken though He could
easily prevent it. Do you hesitate to believe that this passing trial is necessary
for the health of your soul?”
From Scripture (Luke 6:46)
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord’ and
not put into practice what I teach you?
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